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Started by WhiteSnake91 | | 17 answers
Think my motherboard is dying (or something else) BSOD help.
Just got my first ever blue screen of death while just browsing the internet not doing anything stressfull at all. I checked the HDDs and Ram and they show no error at all. Could it be the motherboard? I extremely doubt it's the mild overclock on my i5, I've been running it for quite a while now and nothing ever happened bad before, and I could play BF4 on ultra 1080p 64man multiplayer no problem before either.

If so I might get the cheapest motherboard that's reliable. I'd prefer usb 3.0 on it, but that's just for my external 1.5tb toshiba hdd to transfer stuff faster, which barely ever got used ever anyway.
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August 23, 2014 4:27:56 PM

No I've never OCed the GPU. I've been using the latest stable 14.4 AMD drivers, I'll try that drive cleaner thing. Could be a week or more till it BSOD agains haha.

I heard I could download Unigine Heaven and that would test my GPU if it's failing or not.

edit: I hope it's just the drivers, no wonder people always claimed nvidia was better in that regard, or it could be something else. My other two pc's are AMD gpus too, an hd 5670 512mb gddr5, and an hd 8570 1gb ddr3, I put the 14.4 stable drivers on them, and, from what I used of them, they didn't BSOD. And my laptop is an AMD gpu integrated too and it's never BSOD'd.
a c 114 V Motherboard
August 23, 2014 8:23:39 AM

Did you oc the gpu? Use driver cleaner and reinstall the drivers.
August 23, 2014 1:25:52 AM

I just had a BSOD again while watching some video on the huffington post news site

I found this info on the Aug. updates causing BSOD https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2982791

"Known issue 3
Microsoft is investigating behavior in which systems may crash with a 0x50 Stop error message (bugcheck) after any of the following updates are installed:
2982791 MS14-045: Description of the security update for kernel-mode drivers: August 12, 2014
2970228 Update to support the new currency symbol for the Russian ruble in Windows
2975719 August 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2
2975331 August 2014 update rollup for Windows RT, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 "


butttt, that's not the error I'm having. Thx to you telling me to make sure I uncheck the auto restart button, it was able to generate a dump file, and the error is

082314-11700-01.dmp 8/23/2014 2:34:45 AM SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED 0x1000007e ffffffff`c0000005 fffff880`03b84dbb fffff880`059d1228 fffff880`059d0a80 atikmdag.sys atikmdag.sys+128f6f x64 atikmdag.sys+c7dbb C:\Windows\Minidump\082314-11700-01.dmp 4 15 7601 279,904 8/23/2014 2:37:00 AM

I did a little googling,and, it appears others say it's a graphics card problem. I'm using the HD7950 with the stable release AMD 14.4 drivers.

one site said if this SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED 0x1000007e error isn't fixed it'll keep happening with more and more frequency.

edit: here's the proper text file I saved from bluescreenviewer to my documents

==================================================
Dump File : 082314-11700-01.dmp
Crash Time : 8/23/2014 2:34:45 AM
Bug Check String : SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
Bug Check Code : 0x1000007e
Parameter 1 : ffffffff`c0000005
Parameter 2 : fffff880`03b84dbb
Parameter 3 : fffff880`059d1228
Parameter 4 : fffff880`059d0a80
Caused By Driver : atikmdag.sys
Caused By Address : atikmdag.sys+128f6f
File Description :
Product Name :
Company :
File Version :
Processor : x64
Crash Address : atikmdag.sys+c7dbb
Stack Address 1 :
Stack Address 2 :
Stack Address 3 :
Computer Name :
Full Path : C:\Windows\Minidump\082314-11700-01.dmp
Processors Count : 4
Major Version : 15
Minor Version : 7601
Dump File Size : 279,904
Dump File Time : 8/23/2014 2:37:00 AM
==================================================
a b V Motherboard
August 22, 2014 4:02:48 PM

WhiteSnake91 said:
I know it's a little bit later, but a BUNCH of people I know have been telling me they've been getting blue screens of death too and I think this windows update caused mine, never had one before or since, I'm saying it's likely this windows update stuff.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-update-patch...


You could be right, I thought of this thread when I read that article too!
August 21, 2014 2:43:35 PM

I know it's a little bit later, but a BUNCH of people I know have been telling me they've been getting blue screens of death too and I think this windows update caused mine, never had one before or since, I'm saying it's likely this windows update stuff.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-update-patch...
a b V Motherboard
August 14, 2014 3:33:28 PM

Eh, sometimes it just happens, rarely. I would just see how it goes. If it wasn't set up to write a minidump file before you got the bluescreen it will only write one now if it happens again, that may be why there's nothing there. Don't worry about it if it's just an isolated event, fingers crossed that's all it was :) 
August 14, 2014 3:30:02 PM

No not since just the 1 yesterday, that's what I found really odd. In the many months of sometimes leaving the pc on for more than a day at a time and during gaming long hours it never bluescreened, then just did once randomly yesterday, and not since then
a b V Motherboard
August 14, 2014 3:09:39 PM

Sometimes it just doesn't get chance to write a file, it might take more than 1 BSOD to do it. Have you had any more bluescreens since the first one?
August 14, 2014 3:06:14 PM

Thx I unchecked the box to automatically restart so now I can write down the exact error if it happens again. It's set up to make a kernal memory dump at %SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP and when I even manually go to the Windows folder and to Minidump, it's oddly empty. Now I'm onto searching a way to fix this, other people have had the same problem too it seems where every setting is correct, but yet windows still refuses to make a Dump file after a BSOD.

Should the setting be changed instead to the "Small Memory Dump" of 256kb? Some people say they even tried that too and it didn't help.
a c 114 V Motherboard
August 14, 2014 2:30:46 PM

Check to make sure that it's set to make bsod dumps. Being unstable at idle clocks but stable at load is not uncommon. Worst is that you can't stability test idle besides using the pc.

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