ntoskrnl.exe causing Bsod

Spazz Man

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Hi everyone, on every cold boot of my pc I get a Bsod with different error messages every time. Using BlueScreenView it says that ntoskrnl.exe is the issue.

Ive tested my ram multiple ways. checked my voltages, scanned for corruption and used driver verifier a couple time and still the issue persists.

Here is my latest crash dump:
041215-6890-01.dmp 12/04/2015 9:58:40 AM SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED 0x1000007e ffffffff`c0000005 fffff803`e7f192a6 ffffd001`998d46c8 ffffd001`998d3ed0 ntoskrnl.exe ntoskrnl.exe+1132a6 NT Kernel & System Microsoft® Windows® Operating System Microsoft Corporation 6.3.9600.17736 (winblue_r9.150322-1500) x64 ntoskrnl.exe+1132a6 C:\Windows\Minidump\041215-6890-01.dmp 2 15 9600 262,144 12/04/2015 9:59:54 AM

My Specs are:
Gigabyte H81M-S2H
AMD R9 280X
i5-4460
Windows 8.1
2x4GB Patriot Signature Line DDR3 at 1600MHz

I have no answers from reading multiple forums any insight would help at this point.
 
Solution
Hi there Spazz Man,

I guess you can do some more testing. Try the following:
- Update your GPU drivers.
- Test your HDD with a brand specific tool.
- Go to Device Manager and see whether you have any device with a yellow exclamation mark.

If none of these helps, you can try running your system with only one RAM stick at a time(as you have two) on a different port. You can take out your GPU as well as you CPU has integrated graphics. This way you will narrow the possible causes down.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD
Hi there Spazz Man,

I guess you can do some more testing. Try the following:
- Update your GPU drivers.
- Test your HDD with a brand specific tool.
- Go to Device Manager and see whether you have any device with a yellow exclamation mark.

If none of these helps, you can try running your system with only one RAM stick at a time(as you have two) on a different port. You can take out your GPU as well as you CPU has integrated graphics. This way you will narrow the possible causes down.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD
 
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Spazz Man

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Apr 29, 2015
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Thanks for the suggestions
I had tried, or had already done all the testing you listed so I removed the left RAM stick like you said and started it this morning, cold, and it started up perfectly fine with no issues. I left everything else the same as it was, graphics card still in and such. I think my next step is to figure out weather its a problem with the mother board ram slot or the ram itself, how would I go about doing that?
 
So, you can determine which one is it just by connecting the other RAM(not the one that is working just fine) stick to different slots. If it doesn't work properly on any slot, then it is the RAM stick that is faulty. If works on other slots, then the RAM slot is faulty. :)

D_Know_WD
 
A bad memory address was passed to windows kernel so windows shut the system down.

normally you would run memtest86 to confirm your memory is ok, if that passes
you would boot windows and confirm your core windows files are not corrupted.
run cmd.exe as an admin then run
sfc.exe /scannow
and confirm any corruptions were fixed, if not then run
dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

then try to find out why you had corrupted files, run a malwarebytes scan, rootkit or virus scan.

if nothing is found then you most likely have a driver corrupting system memory.
You would then run cmd.exe as an admin then run
verifier.exe /standard /all
and reboot the system and run until you bugcheck again.
the new bugcheck hopefully will name the bad driver.

otherwise you have to put the memory dump on a server and post a link so someone can take a quick look with a windows debugger.