Jared
Sysnative Staff, BSOD Kernel Dump Expert
- Feb 3, 2014
- 1,591
Ironically, me being a BSOD analyst I'm actually getting BSODs of my own which I am finding the most difficult to ever solve, put it this way, I've had these problems since day one when I first got this PC from a local PC shop (Never again) in March 2013, although I only reeally started debugging in 2014.
Anyway, this is mainly for Patrick and Harry (x BlueRobot) but anyone else is by all means allowed to contribute.
Right, to start off I have done most hardware tests I know of:
So with all these tests I was leaning towards software as clean installs seem to fix the problem for a while but not this time...
It started again mainly last install after I ran NotMyFault and caused a nonpaged memory leak which shouldn't be part of the issue at all.
Anyway, I was doing what I normally do with Outlook open, chrome, skype etc and all of a sudden the programs stopped working but they never said not responding on the top, the mouse would work so I knew it wasn't a deadlock.
I tried the usual old trick in the book and Ctrl + Alt + Del which didn't work but the mouse would still move, then after a few minutes the screen went black with the cursor still then a 0x7A Kernel Inpage Error occurred which is normally a bad disk, I restarted and Windows wouldn't boot, it couldn't find the drive so I put the Windows installation CD in which again found only my External HDD.
I turned off the PC as I kept restarting instead, it then found the drive so I installed Windows again and here I am.
Now apart from that my BSODs only ever happen whilst gaming which is strange if a bad motherboard is causing the issue but I shouldn't decide on that factor alone.
So I ran Driver Verifier for a day or two I can't remember, it found nothing at all (It never seems to although it actually seems to stop the PC crashing for some reason, I remember last install my PC kept freezing so I ran DV for a week straight and no crashes, the day I turned it off it froze, that is strange)
Anyway, I ran DV it found nothing so I turned it off, then I was presented with a 0xC4 after a few hours on my game but what was strange is DV was or should be enabled, I checked the Kernel memory dump which I'll attach a Onedrive link too at the end of this, I used the !verifier command and automatic checks was enabled only yet when I enabled DV I check Standard settings and IRP logging.
This probably isn't related but Chrome caused a massive memory leak yesterday as I have 4GB of RAM and it was using 3.90GB according to Task Manager, I closed it and it shot down to 900MB, I suspect it was Paged pool leakage as everything kept crashing (Not responding) and it was running really slow, I suspect if it was non paged the PC would have probably crashed with a BSOD (0x7B).
Another thing to note, it only ever crashes on newer games, I sometimes play Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (Nostalgia, great game) which was released in 2005 so that's very old, newer games crash the system but Furmark doesn't which is strange as you would immediately suspect a failing/overheating GPU. Given that a I thought a bad GPU was originally installed they swapped the GPU to a GTX 650 Ti for me, as well as changing the PSU so I can't see those causing issues.
Today my PC just froze and upon restarted Windows decided to run a disk check which passed very quickly no errors...
I have basically no money so I really want to be sure it's the motherboard before replacing it, anyway I'll attach the dump.
https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=7C173795197D595B&id=7C173795197D595B!555
Oh and I deciced to give Firefox a try and it seems to run smoother and use less memory than Chrome so I think I'll use this instead :)
Anyway, this is mainly for Patrick and Harry (x BlueRobot) but anyone else is by all means allowed to contribute.
Right, to start off I have done most hardware tests I know of:
- IntelBurnIn test passed
- Prime95 came up no errors for around 2 hours (I ran about twice)
- Memtest86 14 Passes no errors
- Furmark 20-30 minutes 80C no artifacts (GPU replaced to GTX 650 Ti as well)
- SeaTools (Windows and DOS long generic and short generic passed)
- Sisoftware Sandra no errors (Recommended by the company this PC was ordered off
So with all these tests I was leaning towards software as clean installs seem to fix the problem for a while but not this time...
It started again mainly last install after I ran NotMyFault and caused a nonpaged memory leak which shouldn't be part of the issue at all.
Anyway, I was doing what I normally do with Outlook open, chrome, skype etc and all of a sudden the programs stopped working but they never said not responding on the top, the mouse would work so I knew it wasn't a deadlock.
I tried the usual old trick in the book and Ctrl + Alt + Del which didn't work but the mouse would still move, then after a few minutes the screen went black with the cursor still then a 0x7A Kernel Inpage Error occurred which is normally a bad disk, I restarted and Windows wouldn't boot, it couldn't find the drive so I put the Windows installation CD in which again found only my External HDD.
I turned off the PC as I kept restarting instead, it then found the drive so I installed Windows again and here I am.
Now apart from that my BSODs only ever happen whilst gaming which is strange if a bad motherboard is causing the issue but I shouldn't decide on that factor alone.
So I ran Driver Verifier for a day or two I can't remember, it found nothing at all (It never seems to although it actually seems to stop the PC crashing for some reason, I remember last install my PC kept freezing so I ran DV for a week straight and no crashes, the day I turned it off it froze, that is strange)
Anyway, I ran DV it found nothing so I turned it off, then I was presented with a 0xC4 after a few hours on my game but what was strange is DV was or should be enabled, I checked the Kernel memory dump which I'll attach a Onedrive link too at the end of this, I used the !verifier command and automatic checks was enabled only yet when I enabled DV I check Standard settings and IRP logging.
This probably isn't related but Chrome caused a massive memory leak yesterday as I have 4GB of RAM and it was using 3.90GB according to Task Manager, I closed it and it shot down to 900MB, I suspect it was Paged pool leakage as everything kept crashing (Not responding) and it was running really slow, I suspect if it was non paged the PC would have probably crashed with a BSOD (0x7B).
Another thing to note, it only ever crashes on newer games, I sometimes play Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (Nostalgia, great game) which was released in 2005 so that's very old, newer games crash the system but Furmark doesn't which is strange as you would immediately suspect a failing/overheating GPU. Given that a I thought a bad GPU was originally installed they swapped the GPU to a GTX 650 Ti for me, as well as changing the PSU so I can't see those causing issues.
Today my PC just froze and upon restarted Windows decided to run a disk check which passed very quickly no errors...
I have basically no money so I really want to be sure it's the motherboard before replacing it, anyway I'll attach the dump.
https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=7C173795197D595B&id=7C173795197D595B!555
Oh and I deciced to give Firefox a try and it seems to run smoother and use less memory than Chrome so I think I'll use this instead :)