Hi Folks,
I'm hoping someone can help me with this, as i've pretty much exhausted all my ideas.
I built a system from scratch about a month ago after my old desktop went down over Christmas. The only old components i used were the case and my old IDE drives.
The system was fine for three weeks (except for intermittent [twice daily appx] system beeps [single short-ish beep] which seemed to have no effect on its stability), but then while doing something else in the room I heard one of the HD's making a nasty searching noise. The problems seemed to start after this although it may just be co-incidence. I developed errors reading the two old IDE drives that I was running from a PCIe card (i found the card to be not properly seated, which probably caused this, but fixing that or removing it didn't fix the overall issues), but after many different attemps to change their connection to mobo/singly connecting etc. I managed to recover all the data. I couldn't get 1% of the data from one drive, but after a week or so, it suddenly let me into the folders it said were corrupted too.
The thing is, the computer's been as stable as a blind unicyclist since this started happening. I'm getting hangs accompanied by weird graphics glitches on screen, and a variety of BSOD messages that don't hang around long enough to get much info from them (pretty sure the BIOS is set to not auto-reboot, but i'll check again). These BSOD's and hangs can occur anywhere in the process, from the BIOS screen to 24 hours into using the PC... although latterly i'm struggling to even get to the desktop which is why it's taken me a week to get into the minidumps. The boot up process seems to be a lot longer than usual too.
Basically, I figure this is a hardware issue of some sort, and as the components are all relatively new I can probably get them replaced so what i'm wanting is help determining which component is causing the probs. My guess would be the memory, but the Windows memchecking thing doesn't return anything untoward.
I'll have to attach the minidumps later as they're on a pendrive that I don't have with me, but I can list some of the errors and give you a basic system spec if this will help.
Windows7 Ultimate 64bit
Asus M4A78LT-M LE
Phenom II x2 555
2x2Gb Corsair DDR3 RAM (used together and individually to test, with similar results)
500W 'Best Value' PSU
Startech PCIe IDE card
Samsung 1Tb HD
2x Maxtor 80Gb HD's
LG(?) DVDROM Drive
I also have my old system drive with an XP install on, which is usually unplugged but has been shown to work with the new mobo, and has also shown the same errors when used as an alternative OS. This to me excludes the OS as the problem... correct me if i'm wrong.
Right, the BSOD errors...
The first i noticed was a 0x0000001A (have 99% of the refenrence #'s too if they'd help) which i'm led to believe is a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT error.
The other ones that have stayed up long enough for me to notice are :
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
0X0000007E
I'll attach the minidumps to a reply in about an hour and a half in case they'll help.
Thanks in advance.
DrStupid
I'm hoping someone can help me with this, as i've pretty much exhausted all my ideas.
I built a system from scratch about a month ago after my old desktop went down over Christmas. The only old components i used were the case and my old IDE drives.
The system was fine for three weeks (except for intermittent [twice daily appx] system beeps [single short-ish beep] which seemed to have no effect on its stability), but then while doing something else in the room I heard one of the HD's making a nasty searching noise. The problems seemed to start after this although it may just be co-incidence. I developed errors reading the two old IDE drives that I was running from a PCIe card (i found the card to be not properly seated, which probably caused this, but fixing that or removing it didn't fix the overall issues), but after many different attemps to change their connection to mobo/singly connecting etc. I managed to recover all the data. I couldn't get 1% of the data from one drive, but after a week or so, it suddenly let me into the folders it said were corrupted too.
The thing is, the computer's been as stable as a blind unicyclist since this started happening. I'm getting hangs accompanied by weird graphics glitches on screen, and a variety of BSOD messages that don't hang around long enough to get much info from them (pretty sure the BIOS is set to not auto-reboot, but i'll check again). These BSOD's and hangs can occur anywhere in the process, from the BIOS screen to 24 hours into using the PC... although latterly i'm struggling to even get to the desktop which is why it's taken me a week to get into the minidumps. The boot up process seems to be a lot longer than usual too.
Basically, I figure this is a hardware issue of some sort, and as the components are all relatively new I can probably get them replaced so what i'm wanting is help determining which component is causing the probs. My guess would be the memory, but the Windows memchecking thing doesn't return anything untoward.
I'll have to attach the minidumps later as they're on a pendrive that I don't have with me, but I can list some of the errors and give you a basic system spec if this will help.
Windows7 Ultimate 64bit
Asus M4A78LT-M LE
Phenom II x2 555
2x2Gb Corsair DDR3 RAM (used together and individually to test, with similar results)
500W 'Best Value' PSU
Startech PCIe IDE card
Samsung 1Tb HD
2x Maxtor 80Gb HD's
LG(?) DVDROM Drive
I also have my old system drive with an XP install on, which is usually unplugged but has been shown to work with the new mobo, and has also shown the same errors when used as an alternative OS. This to me excludes the OS as the problem... correct me if i'm wrong.
Right, the BSOD errors...
The first i noticed was a 0x0000001A (have 99% of the refenrence #'s too if they'd help) which i'm led to believe is a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT error.
The other ones that have stayed up long enough for me to notice are :
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
0X0000007E
I'll attach the minidumps to a reply in about an hour and a half in case they'll help.
Thanks in advance.
DrStupid