M4A78T-E BSoD should I RMA?

[niacine]

I got my New computer built last night, got Windows 7 installed, and if I leave it alone idleing it seems to run fine (although I have not tried running it for too long). However if I do anything such as scrolling a window or moving the cursor the display begins to artifact or pixlate, eventually the display becomes unresponsive, i can move the cursor but not click on anything. I then crash and get the BSoD report listed below. I have found that 116 is usually a video driver issue.. I have installed the latest and greatest drivers and CCC from ATI/AMD from thier web site, this has changed nothing. I have tried a clean boot (I only show one service other then a windows startup service) and that changed nothing. Did I just get a MoBo with a bad graphics unit?

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 116
BCP1: FFFFFA80039274E0
BCP2: FFFFF8800465A694
BCP3: FFFFFFFFC0000001
BCP4: 0000000000000003
OS Version: 6_1_7600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1


System Specs
CoolerMaster RC-690
AMD PII X4 965BE (stock HSF)(No Overclocking done)
ASUS M4A78T-E MoBo (updated BIOS to 2105 through ASUS update utility)
OCZ DDR3 1600 4GB(2x2gb) OCZ3OB1600LV4GK
I have RAM set in BIOS @ 1333 7-7-7-20 and 1.64v
Western Digital Caviar Black HDD
Samsung DVD burner

 

[o1die]

Could be a power supply issue. Coolermaster makes good cases; but their power supplies are not the best.

 

[niacine]

I am running an OCZ 500 watt stealth stream (OCZ500SXS)

 

[saint19]

Rollback to the previous driver of the GPU and set the memory to default. Do a stability test for a good time.

 

[Proximon]

That's certainly worth a try. Be sure to completely remove the current drivers. Also remove any Asus utilities you may have installed from the CD.

Look for newer chipset drivers as well, from Asus.

Once you have done all that, I would probably say it's the board if it's not fixed.

 

[niacine]

The only utility I installed from Asus was the update utility to update my bios through windows instead of flashing it with a floppy/usb. I only updated the bios because supposedly 1600 gen I had did not support the 965 proc. I'll try to get this moving later tonight after I get home from work. by the way thanks for all the input on my other thread Proximon.

 

[niacine]

It seems that the ATIKMDAG.SYS is the culprit, what a crock. :/