Blue Screens of Death :(

[Smitty2k1]

Hey guys, I'm getting totally random blue screens into a reboot about once a day.

It has happened when opening programs, closing programs, playing Warcraft III, loading steam, ripping CDs, just about everything. Here are all the specs:

DFI SLI-DR
eVGA 6600 gt PCIe
WD 120gig HDD
2x512 Corsair Value Select
AMD 64 3500+ (Venice)
Zalman 7700 CU Fan/Heatsink
Enermax 600w noisetaker
Win XP Pro SP2

Yeah so basically it just flashes to a blue screen with some text for a split second and then reboots and displays the "Windows Has Recovered From A Serious Error" (Send/Dont Send Report)


If I send the error report it says it was a "Driver Device" problem, but does not tell me a specific driver. Could it be a mobo problem? Could it be a thermal problem? (By the way I idle around 39°C, have yet to check load temps) Oh also my chipset fan spins REALLY fast and sometimes makes weird noises....

Anyways no overclock either.

Any advice?

[mETRo]

I don't have any advice, but I feel your pain because my system does it too for no apparent reason. Hopefully someone can help us out.

[dirtydr]

Anything besides the good old 'previous shutdown was unexpected' event in your event viewer?

[Skystalker]

Sounds like one of the follwoing:

1) heat (it is summer)... take the side off the case, put a fan blowing inside

2) spyware and/or virus (they are getting really bad)

3) power (insufficient given the heat, power supplies have less output when they are hot)

4) driver conflict (try re-installing video/audio/chipset drivers)

...good luck. It is a crapshoot!

-Skystalker

PS: Attepmt to fix in the order I suggested... :)

[EnderXC]

I had the same thing happen to me. Back up your datat first of all. then update drivers/bios/everything else. Sadly My experience ended as abrubtly as it started (long story, many reformats). Memtest your ram in the mean time, too. Ranma_Sao helped me when I had BSODs, he can read memory dumps, he is awsome. This (http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=828696) is his thread, he might be able to help you.

Try the drivers first.

[Smitty2k1]

Power supply should be fine, 600w Enermax, spent a fortune on it.
My RAM has passed thru memtest.
Ive reinstalled drivers but Ill look aroudn some more for new ones.
On restart I always check temps in bios and they just say around 39-40°C (Same as my idle)
Oh and as far as spyware/adware Im on a hardware firewall in router, also using Ad-Aware, AVG Virus Scanner, and Spy Bot.


:( Ill keep lookin around

[Phoenix86]

Hey guys, I'm getting totally random blue screens into a reboot about once a day.

Yeah so basically it just flashes to a blue screen with some text for a split second and then reboots...
Disable automatic reboots on critical errors.

Right-click my computer, properties, advanced tab, settings under startup and recovery, uncheck automatically restart.

Now, when it BSODs, it won't reboot and you can see the details.

Post the STOP: message, including the error which will look like IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and the 0x0000000 info.

[Smitty2k1]

Muchas gracias... I reinstalled (updated maybe) all my mobo drivers by d/ling them offline instead of using the CD that came with them... a day or so now without any crashes, but ill disable autoreboot and see if it happens again

[LordGardenGnome]

Are you getting the physical memory dump from Dr. Watson? if so tell me because i just got the BSOD. Haven't gotten it in like 1 year but ever since i deleted those viruses computer went to shit =(