Hi,
I'm new here. I already read a lot of posts to see if I could fix my BSOD problem but without luck untill now. However I saw that you guys were able to help a lot of guys and therefor I hope you'll also be able to help me with my problem.
Last week I did an upgrade of my PC. Basically I kept my 2 HD's, my PSU (recently renewed it because my old one got defective) and my case.
I bought these Items to upgrade my PC:
2X Corsair XMS CMX4GX3M2A1600C9 (so 8GB in total)
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8Ghz Boxed | HDT55TFBGRBOX
Asrock 870 Extreme3 | 870 EXTREME3
Samsung EcoGreen F4EG. 2TB | HD204UI (add on to my other 2HD's I already have)
Sapphire HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE | 11180-00-20R
I did a clean install (windows vista 64bit home basic) and installed everything on the new Samsung drive.
However from day one I'm getting sporadic BSOD's. Strange thing is that I have the impression it's more when I'm just downloading or streaming a video. Never happened during gaming (yet), I did happen during a 10-tabling poker session :/
I did se a few other times that my poker-tables were getting messed up (picture included) but I didn't get a BSOD in these cases.
I tried a lot of things but don't have the feeling that I'm close to solving it:
*I turned off (or disabled) all the items in the BIOS that state that it can cause instability?
*Checked the BIOS version of the mainboard but V1.60 is the latest.
*Performed driver sweeper (even after clean install) did find some NVIDIA drivers and removed them. (did this everytime I switched/updated drivers)
*Performed a memtest86: After 5 passes no errors were detected
*Did a benchmark Heaven V2.1 test: score ~700 (results added)
*Did a short (10min) OCCT CPU test (due to the noise I had to stop it - my wife was getting mad
) I'll repeat this once when we're out of the house.
*Did a OCCT GPU test: no probems detected
*Uninstalled my mcaffee virusscanner
*Checked the minidumps (with my limited knowledge - just learned how to open them reading these forumst)
*Removed the asrock software (as I found in 1 minidump a reference to asrocdrv.sys) (asrock tuner, asrock instant boot and a 3th power saving tool).
*Upgraded the Samsung Ecogreen Bios to be able to enable SMART monitoring
*Enabled SMART monitoring in the BIOS
*Did a HDTune test. Redid the test to be able to add the results in the ZIP file.
*Performed a 14 minute Prime95 test: no problems but same as with the OCCT CPU test: this is something I need to do when my wife is out of the house
*upgraded the drivers to catalyst 10.12.
*After BSOD upgraded the drivers to catalyst 10.12 hotfix when I found a mentioning of atikmdag.sys in the minidump.
*After BSOD downgraded the drivers to catalyst 10.10 latest hotfix.
*Replaced my new graphics card by my old nvidia 8800GT 512MB card.
*Got a BSOD during a reboot (while upgrading software or maybe driver sweeper (don't know anymore)).
*Performed a Heaven benchmark with my old graphics card and got a score of 879 (only ~700 with my new card). ??? this seems strange (or not)?
To summerize... HELP
I hope you guys have enough info to find something that's not as it should or that I should be testing/upgrading.
It would make my X-mas a lot better
tnx in advance.
I'm new here. I already read a lot of posts to see if I could fix my BSOD problem but without luck untill now. However I saw that you guys were able to help a lot of guys and therefor I hope you'll also be able to help me with my problem.
Last week I did an upgrade of my PC. Basically I kept my 2 HD's, my PSU (recently renewed it because my old one got defective) and my case.
I bought these Items to upgrade my PC:
2X Corsair XMS CMX4GX3M2A1600C9 (so 8GB in total)
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8Ghz Boxed | HDT55TFBGRBOX
Asrock 870 Extreme3 | 870 EXTREME3
Samsung EcoGreen F4EG. 2TB | HD204UI (add on to my other 2HD's I already have)
Sapphire HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 PCIE | 11180-00-20R
I did a clean install (windows vista 64bit home basic) and installed everything on the new Samsung drive.
However from day one I'm getting sporadic BSOD's. Strange thing is that I have the impression it's more when I'm just downloading or streaming a video. Never happened during gaming (yet), I did happen during a 10-tabling poker session :/
I did se a few other times that my poker-tables were getting messed up (picture included) but I didn't get a BSOD in these cases.
I tried a lot of things but don't have the feeling that I'm close to solving it:
*I turned off (or disabled) all the items in the BIOS that state that it can cause instability?
*Checked the BIOS version of the mainboard but V1.60 is the latest.
*Performed driver sweeper (even after clean install) did find some NVIDIA drivers and removed them. (did this everytime I switched/updated drivers)
*Performed a memtest86: After 5 passes no errors were detected
*Did a benchmark Heaven V2.1 test: score ~700 (results added)
*Did a short (10min) OCCT CPU test (due to the noise I had to stop it - my wife was getting mad

*Did a OCCT GPU test: no probems detected
*Uninstalled my mcaffee virusscanner
*Checked the minidumps (with my limited knowledge - just learned how to open them reading these forumst)
*Removed the asrock software (as I found in 1 minidump a reference to asrocdrv.sys) (asrock tuner, asrock instant boot and a 3th power saving tool).
*Upgraded the Samsung Ecogreen Bios to be able to enable SMART monitoring
*Enabled SMART monitoring in the BIOS
*Did a HDTune test. Redid the test to be able to add the results in the ZIP file.
*Performed a 14 minute Prime95 test: no problems but same as with the OCCT CPU test: this is something I need to do when my wife is out of the house

*upgraded the drivers to catalyst 10.12.
*After BSOD upgraded the drivers to catalyst 10.12 hotfix when I found a mentioning of atikmdag.sys in the minidump.
*After BSOD downgraded the drivers to catalyst 10.10 latest hotfix.
*Replaced my new graphics card by my old nvidia 8800GT 512MB card.
*Got a BSOD during a reboot (while upgrading software or maybe driver sweeper (don't know anymore)).
*Performed a Heaven benchmark with my old graphics card and got a score of 879 (only ~700 with my new card). ??? this seems strange (or not)?
To summerize... HELP

I hope you guys have enough info to find something that's not as it should or that I should be testing/upgrading.
It would make my X-mas a lot better

tnx in advance.