Cannot resolve BSOD issue...6 month issue

computermod14

computermod14

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I orignionally started experiencing my computer blue screening after playing COD4 for 30 minutes or more. The blue screen does not give any errors, just tells me the system has halted. Now, I'm starting to experience the same issue in Battlefield 2142. Almost all hardware in my system is within 4 months, all but the hard drives, disc drives, and sound card (Creative XtremeGamer).

The issue was happening before I replaced all the newer hardware, so all which I have replaced cannot be causing this problem. I have reinstalled Windows about two times with the same issue happening.

Another issue I have is that the sound in battlefield will randomly stop working. When I close out of the game, it works all of the sudden. I am starting to wonder if the sound card is the ultimate issue of both problems. I have run a full hardware diagnostics on the system and it has passed everything.

Any ideas what I could try and do to resolve the issue? I thought it may have been thermal related, but my system is cooler now than ever.

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simple test...remove the Creative audio card, uninstall the creative drivers, then enable the onboard audio and see what happens
 
Tried both things, still having the same problem. This is incredible...I don't see how it is possible. Maybe it is a thermal issue with the video card after all. The problem did start when I first got my 9800GTX, and still continued when I upgraded to the GTX+. Hmmm...any more input with what I could try?
 
My money is on the 780i SLI motherboard being the culprit. I've seen plenty of those reference boards do crap like that randomly. Do me a favor on that and go into the BIOS and look at your north bridge and south bridge temperatures.

I don't really know for sure. I need more information. When this problem started what was your configuration? Is your RAM a 4x1GB or 2x2GB setup?
 
Did you test any hardware?
Did you run memtest?
Does your system halt when running Prime95 SmallFFTs test? blend test?
Did you loop 3DMark?
 
it looks like the NT kernel does not even finish the memory dumb before it croaks
 
OK, here's an update with the issue. I checked the temps in the BIOS, board is at 36C, MCP is at 55C. Yes, the hardware has been tested as originally posted. I also got a similar BSOD as listed above, this time it says something about "memory parity error". I shut the system down too quick in anger before thinking of taking another photo. I couldn't see it being bad memory as I replaced the original RAM for this issue and the same thing is occurring. My current RAM is 2x 2GB running at a timing of 5-4-4-15 at 2.1V. I might try some other timings, will do some research on it now.
 
computermod14 said:
OK, here's an update with the issue. I checked the temps in the BIOS, board is at 36C, MCP is at 55C. Yes, the hardware has been tested as originally posted. I also got a similar BSOD as listed above, this time it says something about "memory parity error". I shut the system down too quick in anger before thinking of taking another photo. I couldn't see it being bad memory as I replaced the original RAM for this issue and the same thing is occurring. My current RAM is 2x 2GB running at a timing of 5-4-4-15 at 2.1V. I might try some other timings, will do some research on it now.
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The north bridge is reading 55c at idle? That's a bit on the high side for the 680i SLI SPP which is what the 780i SLI actually is. It just has an nForce 200 MCP added to the mix. All the nForce boards I've seen that lasted any length of time had their north bridge running at about 34c or so idle and under load they'd hit about 55c. If you are at 55c now you are looking at 70c or 80c load temperatures.
 
Hmm...thats odd. I did note one other thing though, I didn't have my voltage at 2.1....it was only at 2.025!! I haven't had the BSOD once yet, plus I changed the timing to 5-5-5-15. We'll see.
 
I agree with the Memtest suggestion. If you get any errors, then start running different RAM setups (different slots, different sticks, etc).

Oh, and if you're OCing at all, put everything back to factory clocks.
 
All these issues started before I even overclocked. I ran memtest last night for about 8 hours (while I slept), all turned out well. I tried running 3dmark06 before starting memtest and it blue screened as well. It seems to only be happening when the system is under a little stress... I did not run Prime95 at all, although I've run QAWin32 multiple times within the past 4 months. I'm starting to get very frustrated...
 
I'm too lazy to re-read the whole thread, but if 3DMark fails, its typically a graphics card problem. If you have the latest drivers, its probably a hardware problem. Do you have another vidcard you could try?
 
No, unfortunately I do not. I would have tried that a little while back :( I think it blue screened when it was running the CPU part of 3dmark, not sure.
 
Make sure your mobo's chipset heatsinks are making good contact. Take them off and reapply thermal grease.
 
I'm going to try that right now. But one more thing to add, when I get the blue screen as listed above, the sound keeps functioning fine like nothing happened. Unlike your typical BSOD where the sound starts stuttering or just cuts out completely.
 
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