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BSOD Randomly

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syogik

Limp Gawd
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Hey guys, I never thought i'd have to make a "Rebooting randomly!" or "BSOD randomly!" post, but this is my last resort.. haha

I don't understand it at all, my comp will work with no problem what so ever for long periods of time, and then suddenly have lots of BSODs.

For example, I just had 12 days uptime, but suddenly blue screened.. I was extracting a large rar archive.

Rebooted, attempted to extract the archive again.. no prob.. then I loaded Nero 6, go to Burn Image file and .. well, what do you know.. blue screen when I hit that.

Rebooted again, went to "burn image file" in nero again, no problems.. burns the image, I move on to the next large rar archive and start extracting that.. it finishes, I go to my desktop and im talking on AIM and bam. BSOD.

Every time it BSOD's it makes a click sound and my heapdhones utter a squel and scraping sound repeatedly every second or two after the blue screen..

I've used the "Event viewer" or whatever to look into any problems, and it tells me to look for an event ID 1001 so I do and this is what I find:

eventprops.jpg


details.jpg


I can't stand this anymore, so if anyone has any possible suggestions.. please, enlighten me! It's just odd because my computer operates fine, its just on occasion, randomly, this will happen.

Also, I am probably just crazy but it always seems to happen when I am about to/just after I've burned something.

NOTE: I doubt its RAM trouble, as I had bad sticks before which did not pass Memtest86 and these one did pass.

Specs:

P4 3.0C on ASUS P4P800 Deluxe
ANTEC TrueBlue 480Watt PSU
Sapphire Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB
2x512MB Kingston Hyperx PC3500
2x WD Raptor -RAID0-
2x Maxtor 160GB
1x Maxtor 60GB
Audigy 2
LG 52x24x52

SONY DW-U10A

PS: Could this be something like "Data corruption on the IDE" or something? I have Round IDE cables, and theyre 24" I think. I remember reading some horror stories post about round/long IDE cables >_<
 
Heres an ubernoob question: How do I find out?

I mean, I have ASUS Probe which will tell me my CPU temp, but how do I find it out under full load?

Run Prime 95 stress test and then check the CPU temp?

EDIT-

PS: I have a Zalman 7000 Al-Cu HSF and it seems to be cool to the touch.. every time I blue screened, I'd touch the HSF (even the parts of the HSF closest to the CPU) and it wasnt even very hot. Just warm.
 
yeah, that's how you find it out, re: your post...

and, i really think it might even be a Page File problem (see, i started experimenting with my page file to see how small i could get it..and when it was too small, weird shit happened.)

so try going to right-click My Computer and Properties and Virtual Memory, and set it equal to your RAM (both min and max) then go see the Tweak Guide and read the referenced thread on the Page File and follow the formula.
 
Thanks for the tip. Well, right now my page file is 1.5x my RAM.. I have the initial size set to "2048" and the max size set to "2560"

I have 1gb of ram, and I heard that the page file should always be set to 1.5x what your ram is.. I dont know if thats true or not, but yea..

Thanks for the reply, but I'm not sure thats the problem.. :(

PS: Where is this tweak guide?
 
does this help? Do you have multiple partitions/drives? Could be the cables are too long.

If you need to defrag your pagefile, go here
 
Tweak guide is here. http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=710208

Also check this thread (one of many I have replied to about PFs). http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=707368

Your could use some attention if it's that large, I doubt you need it that big. PF fragmentation may cause random BSOD, but it's not likely. Download o&o defrag and it will defrag your PF.

I know you ran it before, but test the memory again, things can fail over time, memory being one of the big ones... About 8 hours/overnight will do, 0 errors is the only good result. Can you give us more info on the BSOD itself? there are a couple of key pieces of info. Get the whole "STOP:" line including the 0x000000b4 (0x00000 blah blah). Good luck.

edit: that link to MS looks wrong, the 0x00000054 doesn't match his, these are usually matching for the correct error, though not always...
 
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