- Jul 18, 2015
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So - I'll start from the beginning. I bought a Gamer Mage D355 Desktop from IBuyPower in March. When I got the PC - On initial Start-up - I found that I had a GPU issue. I had a checkered pattern on screen. Come to find out the foam they fill the case with bent the GPU. So I RTM'd the GPU and finally got another back from them. That was just the start with the issues I've had with it.
That being said - I was finally able to get BSoDs to stop and have had no real issues since getting stable. The other day a new GPU update was available so I downloaded it. Upon restarting after the update - My PC has gone back to the same BSoDs I've had.
Some Basic Info on the PC (This is the Summary Info from Speccy whiling running AIDA64 System Stability Test for 1 hour):
Summary
- Operating System
--- Windows 8.1 64-bit
- CPU
--- AMD FX-8350 43 °C
--- Vishera 32nm Technology
- RAM
--- 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 668MHz (11-11-11-28)
- Motherboard
--- ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. M5A97 R2.0 (Socket 942) 33 °C
- Graphics
--- HP 2009 (1600x900@60Hz)
--- 19M35 (1366x768@60Hz)
--- 4096MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (C.P. Technology) 48 °C
- Storage
--- 119GB Corsair Force LX SSD (SSD) 33 °C
--- 931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-00BN5A0 (SATA) 29 °C
--- 3725GB Western Digital WD My Book 1230 USB Device (SSD) 33 °C
--- 465GB Seagate FreeAgent Go USB Device (SSD) 33 °C
--- 977MB SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Device (USB)
- Optical Drives
--- HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NSC0
--- HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH14NS40
- Audio
--- Realtek High Definition Audio
These are the things I've tried to find the culprit(s):
- (Pass) Ran 7 MemTest at once - Each with 2047 meg coverage. I've done this multiple times up to 120% each.
- (Pass) Ran FurMark 1.15.2.2 GPU Stress Test. I've done 3 different test (all for 2 hours long).
-- 1) With Fury
-- 2) Without Fury
-- 3) Every 10 minutes turning Fury off and back on
- (Pass) Ran BurnInTest v8.1 Pro (1001)
- Uninstalled all AMD software using DDU v15.3.1.0. I've installed all of the following in the same manner. First I installed the entire suite. Than I installed just the Drivers.
-- 1) Reinstalled these following Drivers:
--- a) AMD Catalyst 13.9
--- b) AMD Catalyst 13.12
--- c) AMD Catalyst 14.9
--- d) AMD Catalyst 14.11.2 Beta
--- e) AMD Catalyst 14.12
--- f) AMD Catalyst 15.3 Beta
--- g) AMD Catalyst 15.7 (Newest)
(All of the above result in the same issue now. Leading me to believe that something else was changed during the update. However - I can't figure it out! Lol)
- Currently Running AIDA64 System Stability Test - Stress FPU
I'm sure I'm missing something. I'll be happy to provide what I can.
Edit: When the PC "Black Screens" - It doesn't actually restart. The PC is still running. Just frozen and I must force restart.
Edit(2): I ran Driver Verifier Manager for about 8 hours as well. I used the following options:
- Create custom settings (for code developers)
- Special pool, Force IRQL checking, Pool tracking, Deadlock detection, Security checks, Miscellaneous checks, and DDI compliance checking
- Select driver names from a list
- Checked all drivers that weren't from "Microsoft Corporation"
This actually results in me NOT "Blacking Screening". But I get pretty horrible FPS and would like to fix the issue vs. wrapping a band-aid over it.
That being said - I was finally able to get BSoDs to stop and have had no real issues since getting stable. The other day a new GPU update was available so I downloaded it. Upon restarting after the update - My PC has gone back to the same BSoDs I've had.
Some Basic Info on the PC (This is the Summary Info from Speccy whiling running AIDA64 System Stability Test for 1 hour):
Summary
- Operating System
--- Windows 8.1 64-bit
- CPU
--- AMD FX-8350 43 °C
--- Vishera 32nm Technology
- RAM
--- 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 668MHz (11-11-11-28)
- Motherboard
--- ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. M5A97 R2.0 (Socket 942) 33 °C
- Graphics
--- HP 2009 (1600x900@60Hz)
--- 19M35 (1366x768@60Hz)
--- 4096MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (C.P. Technology) 48 °C
- Storage
--- 119GB Corsair Force LX SSD (SSD) 33 °C
--- 931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-00BN5A0 (SATA) 29 °C
--- 3725GB Western Digital WD My Book 1230 USB Device (SSD) 33 °C
--- 465GB Seagate FreeAgent Go USB Device (SSD) 33 °C
--- 977MB SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Device (USB)
- Optical Drives
--- HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NSC0
--- HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH14NS40
- Audio
--- Realtek High Definition Audio
These are the things I've tried to find the culprit(s):
- (Pass) Ran 7 MemTest at once - Each with 2047 meg coverage. I've done this multiple times up to 120% each.
- (Pass) Ran FurMark 1.15.2.2 GPU Stress Test. I've done 3 different test (all for 2 hours long).
-- 1) With Fury
-- 2) Without Fury
-- 3) Every 10 minutes turning Fury off and back on
- (Pass) Ran BurnInTest v8.1 Pro (1001)
- Uninstalled all AMD software using DDU v15.3.1.0. I've installed all of the following in the same manner. First I installed the entire suite. Than I installed just the Drivers.
-- 1) Reinstalled these following Drivers:
--- a) AMD Catalyst 13.9
--- b) AMD Catalyst 13.12
--- c) AMD Catalyst 14.9
--- d) AMD Catalyst 14.11.2 Beta
--- e) AMD Catalyst 14.12
--- f) AMD Catalyst 15.3 Beta
--- g) AMD Catalyst 15.7 (Newest)
(All of the above result in the same issue now. Leading me to believe that something else was changed during the update. However - I can't figure it out! Lol)
- Currently Running AIDA64 System Stability Test - Stress FPU
I'm sure I'm missing something. I'll be happy to provide what I can.
Edit: When the PC "Black Screens" - It doesn't actually restart. The PC is still running. Just frozen and I must force restart.
Edit(2): I ran Driver Verifier Manager for about 8 hours as well. I used the following options:
- Create custom settings (for code developers)
- Special pool, Force IRQL checking, Pool tracking, Deadlock detection, Security checks, Miscellaneous checks, and DDI compliance checking
- Select driver names from a list
- Checked all drivers that weren't from "Microsoft Corporation"
This actually results in me NOT "Blacking Screening". But I get pretty horrible FPS and would like to fix the issue vs. wrapping a band-aid over it.
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