- Mar 31, 2009
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I am out of ideas this time. For several months I have been plagued with genuinely random bluescreens. I am now looking for help from the community.
Info:
Upgrades:
#1 Bought 2 additional 120Gb SSDs from Corsair (Force GT3) for a Raid 0
#2 Bought 6 Corsair dimms to update memory (48Gb Dominator Platinum)
#3 Bought 3 GTX670's for 3 Way SLI( EVGA P/N: 04G-P4-3673-KR)
The problems began after the 3rd upgrade. Random bluescreens when gaming, browsing, or even typing documents. BlueScreenViewer points to repeated crashes of ntoskrnl.exe or nvlddmkm.sys of which I know nvlddmkm is an nvidia driver component. The bluescreens error codes were 0x0F4 and a locale ID of 1033. Everywhere I found online points to this being ram based. So I ran memtest on all 48Gb for 20 hours(3 passes) with no errors. Then I proceeded to test each stick individually for 5 hours (3 passes each). Still no errors. My next thought was that a video card was bugged. So I tried them as single cards 1 by 1 and found 2 that were bugged (repeated driver crashes and memory corruption). Replaced those. On the next set another was DOA. And now as I write this post I'm on my 4th SET of replacements. I'm an unlucky person but 4 sets of dead cards seems cosmically improbable at best. All 3 cards do great on their own now (no SLi of any kind). Unfortunately the problems are still present when I have more than 1 card installed. I saw a post on EVGA forums about updated firmware for the GTX670 class cards. I tried updating firmware but that did not seem to fix the problem.
After all this I am considering the SSDs are the problem. The drives however have not given any trouble in the past (1 was previously operating 3x9800GTX+ and another was in a rig with 2xGTX560Ti cards).
Drivers are up to date and everything seems updated and in place.
Specs:
3x Corsair Force GT 3 120Gb ssds Raid 0
3x 7200rpm hard disks
1x BD-Rom
6x 8Gb Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3 1600Mhz
1x Intel Core i7 960 3.33Ghz (Corsair H80)
3x EVGA 04G-P4-3673-KR GTX670 4Gb FTW+ cards
1x Corsair AX1200 psu
So my question is: What in the world can be causing these problems?!?!?!?!?
Info:
Upgrades:
#1 Bought 2 additional 120Gb SSDs from Corsair (Force GT3) for a Raid 0
#2 Bought 6 Corsair dimms to update memory (48Gb Dominator Platinum)
#3 Bought 3 GTX670's for 3 Way SLI( EVGA P/N: 04G-P4-3673-KR)
The problems began after the 3rd upgrade. Random bluescreens when gaming, browsing, or even typing documents. BlueScreenViewer points to repeated crashes of ntoskrnl.exe or nvlddmkm.sys of which I know nvlddmkm is an nvidia driver component. The bluescreens error codes were 0x0F4 and a locale ID of 1033. Everywhere I found online points to this being ram based. So I ran memtest on all 48Gb for 20 hours(3 passes) with no errors. Then I proceeded to test each stick individually for 5 hours (3 passes each). Still no errors. My next thought was that a video card was bugged. So I tried them as single cards 1 by 1 and found 2 that were bugged (repeated driver crashes and memory corruption). Replaced those. On the next set another was DOA. And now as I write this post I'm on my 4th SET of replacements. I'm an unlucky person but 4 sets of dead cards seems cosmically improbable at best. All 3 cards do great on their own now (no SLi of any kind). Unfortunately the problems are still present when I have more than 1 card installed. I saw a post on EVGA forums about updated firmware for the GTX670 class cards. I tried updating firmware but that did not seem to fix the problem.
After all this I am considering the SSDs are the problem. The drives however have not given any trouble in the past (1 was previously operating 3x9800GTX+ and another was in a rig with 2xGTX560Ti cards).
Drivers are up to date and everything seems updated and in place.
Specs:
3x Corsair Force GT 3 120Gb ssds Raid 0
3x 7200rpm hard disks
1x BD-Rom
6x 8Gb Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3 1600Mhz
1x Intel Core i7 960 3.33Ghz (Corsair H80)
3x EVGA 04G-P4-3673-KR GTX670 4Gb FTW+ cards
1x Corsair AX1200 psu
So my question is: What in the world can be causing these problems?!?!?!?!?
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