Ok, so I built my own AMD PC this past weekend, and last night the computer shut down after sleeping and restarted. Every time I now put it to sleep, it crashes. Upon startup, it immediately informs me of a dump file it created and that it crashed due to some error.
I did encounter the BSOD once, when attempting to solve the problem the first time, and I haven't seen it since, and the only problem is now when it sleeps. Restarting manually causes no error.
I used WinDbg and the dump file to come up with the first "solution," which is that a file called "athwnx.sys" was not returning correct values (as shown by the stack trace in the dump file). This is the driver to my TP-Link TL-Wn951N Wireless adapter and it is by Atheros. I reinstalled the driver and the hardware, and updated everything. It still has the error, and the dump file reads the same problem. Is this device simply unusable with Win8 perhaps?
Also, my system did beep codes to indicate that there was a memory error when installing Windows 8, but later diagnostics with BIOS and a system check utility did not indicate that anything failed, nor was this driver problem happening the first day the system was running. Also, the hardware is all compatible and functional, as I tried it with Linux Mint and Ubuntu prior to installing Windows. I did accidentally bang up the RAM a bit upon installing it (pushed a little on it when it was misaligned by a hair, it scraped a little on the slot), but it didn't seem to be damaged at all, and registered fine.
Any help with this baffling problem would be appreciated. I'll get you whatever extra information you might need.
My system:
Windows 8
Gigabyte GA970-UD3P MoBo
AMD FX6300 CPU
8Gb G.Skill Sniper RAM
1TB WD Black HDD
TP-Link WN951N Wireless-N Card - I got this last year, so it is old.
ASUS GTX 650 ti 2Gb GPU
Corsair CX600 PSU
Rosewill Challenger U3 case
I did encounter the BSOD once, when attempting to solve the problem the first time, and I haven't seen it since, and the only problem is now when it sleeps. Restarting manually causes no error.
I used WinDbg and the dump file to come up with the first "solution," which is that a file called "athwnx.sys" was not returning correct values (as shown by the stack trace in the dump file). This is the driver to my TP-Link TL-Wn951N Wireless adapter and it is by Atheros. I reinstalled the driver and the hardware, and updated everything. It still has the error, and the dump file reads the same problem. Is this device simply unusable with Win8 perhaps?
Also, my system did beep codes to indicate that there was a memory error when installing Windows 8, but later diagnostics with BIOS and a system check utility did not indicate that anything failed, nor was this driver problem happening the first day the system was running. Also, the hardware is all compatible and functional, as I tried it with Linux Mint and Ubuntu prior to installing Windows. I did accidentally bang up the RAM a bit upon installing it (pushed a little on it when it was misaligned by a hair, it scraped a little on the slot), but it didn't seem to be damaged at all, and registered fine.
Any help with this baffling problem would be appreciated. I'll get you whatever extra information you might need.
My system:
Windows 8
Gigabyte GA970-UD3P MoBo
AMD FX6300 CPU
8Gb G.Skill Sniper RAM
1TB WD Black HDD
TP-Link WN951N Wireless-N Card - I got this last year, so it is old.
ASUS GTX 650 ti 2Gb GPU
Corsair CX600 PSU
Rosewill Challenger U3 case