Hi all,
I experience quite some BSODs of different nature. It started with random freezes of my computer, mostly within an hour after start up. Resetting the computer allowed me to work on for the rest of the day.
Since a few weeks, I start getting BSODs with different messages. PFN list corrupt, IRQL not less or equal, ...
Memtest gave nothing, I tried that for more than 24 hours about 5 times the last month, and no errors.
Both disks seem to be OK, although I'm not 100% sure about my SSD. But I can't find errors with the tools I have here (standard Windows set, speccy and HDDiag)
perfmon gives a missing anti virus, but Microsoft Security Essentials is running and indicates it's running fine. Some BSODs could point to an MSE problem, so I've reinstalled that twice by now, following the instructions for clean removal from Microsoft itself. Still doesn't work as it should (why am I not surprised...).
New BSODs appeared, pointing in the direction of a driver issue. Ran verifier, did stress tests, updated all drivers, did a driver check, and the problem disappeared for a day or two. Then again new BSODs appeared.
The problem accumulated and today I wasn't able to get past the BIOS. After a few attempts also the BIOS didn't fire up anymore. I've managed to get the computer running again by resetting the bios (take out the battery, wait 15 minutes, and off we go). I got a warning that overclocking failed (never attempted to overclock and all BIOS settings are the default). It also failed to recognize my third slot of 2Gb DDR3.
Unplugged computer, waited 15 minutes, took out all 3 DDR3-2Gb RAM slots, waited a minute, reinstalled in sockets A0-B0-C0, resetted the CMOS manually with the button on the motherboard, restarted, and all seemed well.
Still, I lost confidence in my computer and I have no clue if this is hardware wearing out or still a software problem. If I'm sure it's a software problem, I might just do a complete fresh install of Windows 7. But I don't want to go through all that hassle if it's really my hardware suffering from heavy use.
I should mention I work at the university in the statistics department, so my comp runs 8-10 hours a day with heavy calculations.
Can you guys take a look and see if you could pinpoint the problem? Output from verifier, perfmon and the minidumps of the last 10 crashes are in the zip file attached.
Configuration:
Motherboard: MSI X58 Pro-E (model no MS-7522)
Processors : Intel QuadCore i7 (LGA 1366)
OS: Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1 64bit
Disks : Corsair CSSD-V64GB2 : boot disk
WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 : data disk (partitioned)
Display adapter: MSI R 4350 (comes from the ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 series)
Network card: Realtek 8111C (was on the motherboard)
RAM : 3 x DDR3-SDRAM @1333MHz
PS: I collected all files manually, as the tools provided on this forum failed to create the output folder, possibly due to the multi-user setup of my comp and the fact that I remapped my Documents library to my second hard disk (see my topic about that).
I experience quite some BSODs of different nature. It started with random freezes of my computer, mostly within an hour after start up. Resetting the computer allowed me to work on for the rest of the day.
Since a few weeks, I start getting BSODs with different messages. PFN list corrupt, IRQL not less or equal, ...
Memtest gave nothing, I tried that for more than 24 hours about 5 times the last month, and no errors.
Both disks seem to be OK, although I'm not 100% sure about my SSD. But I can't find errors with the tools I have here (standard Windows set, speccy and HDDiag)
perfmon gives a missing anti virus, but Microsoft Security Essentials is running and indicates it's running fine. Some BSODs could point to an MSE problem, so I've reinstalled that twice by now, following the instructions for clean removal from Microsoft itself. Still doesn't work as it should (why am I not surprised...).
New BSODs appeared, pointing in the direction of a driver issue. Ran verifier, did stress tests, updated all drivers, did a driver check, and the problem disappeared for a day or two. Then again new BSODs appeared.
The problem accumulated and today I wasn't able to get past the BIOS. After a few attempts also the BIOS didn't fire up anymore. I've managed to get the computer running again by resetting the bios (take out the battery, wait 15 minutes, and off we go). I got a warning that overclocking failed (never attempted to overclock and all BIOS settings are the default). It also failed to recognize my third slot of 2Gb DDR3.
Unplugged computer, waited 15 minutes, took out all 3 DDR3-2Gb RAM slots, waited a minute, reinstalled in sockets A0-B0-C0, resetted the CMOS manually with the button on the motherboard, restarted, and all seemed well.
Still, I lost confidence in my computer and I have no clue if this is hardware wearing out or still a software problem. If I'm sure it's a software problem, I might just do a complete fresh install of Windows 7. But I don't want to go through all that hassle if it's really my hardware suffering from heavy use.
I should mention I work at the university in the statistics department, so my comp runs 8-10 hours a day with heavy calculations.
Can you guys take a look and see if you could pinpoint the problem? Output from verifier, perfmon and the minidumps of the last 10 crashes are in the zip file attached.
Configuration:
Motherboard: MSI X58 Pro-E (model no MS-7522)
Processors : Intel QuadCore i7 (LGA 1366)
OS: Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1 64bit
Disks : Corsair CSSD-V64GB2 : boot disk
WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 : data disk (partitioned)
Display adapter: MSI R 4350 (comes from the ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 series)
Network card: Realtek 8111C (was on the motherboard)
RAM : 3 x DDR3-SDRAM @1333MHz
PS: I collected all files manually, as the tools provided on this forum failed to create the output folder, possibly due to the multi-user setup of my comp and the fact that I remapped my Documents library to my second hard disk (see my topic about that).
