Random BSODs Driving me nuts!

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Cpatrick

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Good afternoon all,

Ever since I turned on this PC for the first time I have been getting random BSOD's about once every day or two. apart from that it works just fine (!)

Since the problem first emerged I have tried a lot of the recommended fixes including memtest, swapping out the RAM, trying a different hard drive, and even changing the battery on the motherboard. I am now at a loss so if anyone can give me a hand in working out the source of this issue I would be very grateful!

Cheers

DMP files: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=C658FD652B669BC7!110&authkey=!AOocfIkH2amixzM&ithint=file%2crar

System specs:

i5-4460 3.2 GHz
MSI-7922
Geforce GTX 980ti
Windows 7 Home P1 7601
16GB G-ram (4x4GB)

If you need any more information let me know
 
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-I looked at the various bugchecks, all of them were in components that are often attacked by malware. Rather than random memory corruption that you would get with ram timing errors. I would download and run malwarebytes.

you could also get this same effect if there was a bug in the SATA driver. I suspect this only because the internal error code did not detect a SATA error and the motherboard vendor had updated the SATA driver. IE the controller said there was no error but the loaded image was modified. So I would guess a SATA driver bug or malware.




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update bios to get BIOS memory timings fixes: (dated 2/20/2016)
https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/support/Z97S-SLI-Krait-Edition.html#down-bios

you have mixed memory...
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johnbl

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-I looked at the various bugchecks, all of them were in components that are often attacked by malware. Rather than random memory corruption that you would get with ram timing errors. I would download and run malwarebytes.

you could also get this same effect if there was a bug in the SATA driver. I suspect this only because the internal error code did not detect a SATA error and the motherboard vendor had updated the SATA driver. IE the controller said there was no error but the loaded image was modified. So I would guess a SATA driver bug or malware.




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update bios to get BIOS memory timings fixes: (dated 2/20/2016)
https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/support/Z97S-SLI-Krait-Edition.html#down-bios

you have mixed memory modules, you should set your memory secondary timing for your command rate to the slowest rate. IE 2N or 2T
(update the BIOS first and make the change if the setting is not correct)

you will want to update the motherboard drivers, looks like new ones just came out:
https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/support/Z97S-SLI-Krait-Edition.html#down-driver&Win7 64


update:
Atheros network adapter driver
\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\athrx.sys Tue Feb 22 12:17:31 2011

Realtek RTL8168D/8111D Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\Rt64win7.sys Mon Nov 25 23:33:02 2013
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false



machine:

note: mixed memory modules:
CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 corsair 9-9-9-24 (not sure about the command rate but it could be 1N)
F3-12800CL9-4GBXL ripjawsx 9-9-9-24-2N
BIOS Version V10.2
BIOS Starting Address Segment f000
BIOS Release Date 11/10/2014
Manufacturer MSI
Product Name MS-7922
Version 2.0
Product Z97S SLI Krait Edition (MS-7922)
Processor Version Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Processor Voltage 8ch - 1.2V
External Clock 100MHz
Max Speed 3800MHz
Current Speed 3200MHz



 
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