Hi i have been having a lot of freezes with my home built computer for about 8 months now. Ive been tryin to figure out whats causing this and have thus far replaced the motherboard, ram, hard drive, psu. I have also tried using another cpu, graphics card. I seem to get this freezes at random times even when the cpu isnt under heavy load.
All temps and voltages are normal.
System is:
Intel Core 2 quad 9450 2.67Ghz
4gb of OCZ DDR3 Ram 1333mhz at 7-7-7-20 2T
2 segate 250gb 16mb cache HDD in raid 0 for the OS
Segate 320gb HDD for backup of work
Coolermaster 850w PSU (Real Power M850)
Nvidia BFG GTX280 OC
Asus Rampage Extreme Motherboard
As i said i have been having a lot of freezes hardlocks and cannot do anything but hard reset or shutdown the computer.
I have recieved one blue screen in this time, and i am wondering if it is related to the freezes a check of the minidump file gave me these results:
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION (3b)
An exception happened while executing a system service routine.
Arguments:
Arg1: 00000000c000001d, Exception code that caused the bugcheck
Arg2: fffff80001d48a1b, Address of the exception record for the exception that caused the bugcheck
Arg3: fffffa60098a9f40, Address of the context record for the exception that caused the bugcheck
Arg4: 0000000000000000, zero.
Debugging Details:
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AUTOBUG_USER_LCID_STR: ENU
AUTOBUG_OS_SKU: 3
EXCEPTION_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc000001d - {EXCEPTION} Illegal Instruction An attempt was made to execute an illegal instruction.
FAULTING_IP:
nt!EtwpTraceLoadImage+5b
fffff800`01d48a1b 0f856386f9ff jne nt! ?? ::NNGAKEGL::`string'+0xd670 (fffff800`01ce1084)
CONTEXT: fffffa60098a9f40 -- (.cxr 0xfffffa60098a9f40)
rax=fffffa80047c9d00 rbx=0000000000000000 rcx=fffffa80047c9df0
rdx=0000000000000000 rsi=0000000000000dd8 rdi=fffffa8006597358
rip=fffff80001d48a1b rsp=fffffa60098aa7a0 rbp=fffff80001beec60
r8=0000000000000040 r9=0000000000000000 r10=0000000077a30000
r11=fffffa8005e453c0 r12=fffffa60098aa9b0 r13=fffffa60098aa9b0
r14=0000000000000dd8 r15=fffffa8006597358
iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na po nc
cs=0010 ss=0018 ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00010246
nt!EtwpTraceLoadImage+0x5b:
fffff800`01d48a1b 0f856386f9ff jne nt! ?? ::NNGAKEGL::`string'+0xd670 (fffff800`01ce1084) [br=0]
Resetting default scope
CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR: 0x3B
PROCESS_NAME: explorer.exe
CURRENT_IRQL: 0
LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from fffff80001d48350 to fffff80001d48a1b
Running Vista? Dump it. Get XP. Vista seems to be causing everyone issues. If you must have 64 bit system, get XP x64. If that's not for you, the have you tried reinstalling the OS? Did you reinstall after changing the motherboard? I built my own system and after I changed the motherboard, the "BSOD" was all i received until I reinstalled.
Other than that, I dont know how to help. Good luck David.
Vista 64 and Windows Server 2008 are fine on a stable system. Are you overclocking (RAM or CPU)? Does the PSU provide stable voltages both at idle and under load? You could run memtest86 for several hours to verify the RAM. Then run Prime95 for several hours to ensure that the CPU/motherboard are stable. I don't know how you can test the video card other than trying a different one.
Do you have access to another computer? You could try the card in another computer and see if it works there. If it works in another that could help eliminate one possibility.
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