- Nov 11, 2011
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I recently upgraded my PC's motherboard and processor. Before this the computer had almost no problems, and certainly nothing along the lines of BSOD's. I realize it may be a driver issue or a hardware issue, but I don't know what to do at this point.
When I first finished installing the new hardware, the first thing I noticed was a BSOD right after POST. I changed my BIOS setting from AHCI mode to IDE mode and that seemed to resolve the issue. Secondly, I noticed a very long delay between POST and the Windows startup screen which was not happening before the upgrade. After logging in, drivers began installing, mostly from the internet, for most of my PC components. After a few reboots, I then installed the driver disk that came with my motherboard just in case. Once everything seemed to be set up, I started getting BSOD's at seemingly random intervals with no identifiable cause. Some of the messages were:
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
PROCESS_HAS_LOCKED_PAGES
Most of these had ntoskrnl.exe listed as the driver at fault which is obviously unhelpful. I tried running Driver Verifier to see if it would identify the problem, and it faulted with the driver "mcdbus.sys" which corresponded to a MagicISO driver, which I then uninstalled. However the random BSOD's did not go away. Driver Verifier did not pick up anything else.
Here are my specs, including the new motherboard and CPU:
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP
Intel Core i5-4570 @ 3.20 GHz
Gigabyte nVidia GTX 560Ti
12GB RAM (8GB Corsair & 4GB ADATA)
If anyone would like, I can zip up a few of the minidumps and post them here if it would help out my issue.
At this point I don't know what to do or what is causing the problems, hardware or software. I could really use some help on this. Thanks in advance!
When I first finished installing the new hardware, the first thing I noticed was a BSOD right after POST. I changed my BIOS setting from AHCI mode to IDE mode and that seemed to resolve the issue. Secondly, I noticed a very long delay between POST and the Windows startup screen which was not happening before the upgrade. After logging in, drivers began installing, mostly from the internet, for most of my PC components. After a few reboots, I then installed the driver disk that came with my motherboard just in case. Once everything seemed to be set up, I started getting BSOD's at seemingly random intervals with no identifiable cause. Some of the messages were:
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
PROCESS_HAS_LOCKED_PAGES
Most of these had ntoskrnl.exe listed as the driver at fault which is obviously unhelpful. I tried running Driver Verifier to see if it would identify the problem, and it faulted with the driver "mcdbus.sys" which corresponded to a MagicISO driver, which I then uninstalled. However the random BSOD's did not go away. Driver Verifier did not pick up anything else.
Here are my specs, including the new motherboard and CPU:
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP
Intel Core i5-4570 @ 3.20 GHz
Gigabyte nVidia GTX 560Ti
12GB RAM (8GB Corsair & 4GB ADATA)
If anyone would like, I can zip up a few of the minidumps and post them here if it would help out my issue.
At this point I don't know what to do or what is causing the problems, hardware or software. I could really use some help on this. Thanks in advance!
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