Blue Screen of Death (BSoD)

Bugen

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Jan 21, 2006
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Hi, I am having a real problem with constant BSoDs. Though I have achieved many different BSoDs, the two most popular on my list are: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005,0xEDA688C5,0xEDDA68800,0x00000000) and 0x0000050 (0xF32CD4CB,0x00000001,0xF32DC8C5,0x00000000). I have updated (and rolled back) the BIOS (tried 1005, 1008, 1009 and 1011 beta), chipset driver (6.65, 6.66 and 6.70), video card driver (71.84, 72.77, 77.77,81.95 and 81.98), and AMD Cool n' Quiet driver.

My setup is:
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
AMD Athlon 64 4000+
ThermalRight XP-90 (with 92mm Vantec Stealth)
XFX Nvidia 7800 GTX 256MB
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music
Plextor PX-712SA DVD-RW
Corsair ValueSelect VS512MB400C3 (Two of them)
Lian-Li V-1000A (Current Case)
AeroCool AeroEngine I (Old Case)
Xion PowerReal 600 Watt (Non-Dual 12V)

My original configuration (the above config. minus the heatsink, sound card and Lian-Li) was built, by me, mid September and was working flawlessly for just over a month when it started rebooting randomly. At that point I started scanning for viruses with various AV's (NOD32, Norton and Kaspersky to name a few), updating drivers, tried using a different video card and different PSU. I have tried moving the RAM into different modules and known-working RAM. Recently I changed cases from the AeroCool AeroEngine I to the Lian Li V-1000A which inverted the board causing the heatpipe to not work probably and heat the northbridge chipset a little bit. Though this is a minor problem, it has happened much too recently to be one of the causing problems. I put the heatsink and sound card near the end of december. I have reformatted with no luck. Although when I reformatted, it seemed to be the nForce drivers on the motherbord that the computer started the BSoDs again. I have uninstalled them with no luck of the BSoDs to stop.
 

tweekah

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Run memtest and report your findings. If you are overclocking, reverse it. Try replacing IDE cables if you are using those. Good luck.
 

Bugen

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Jan 21, 2006
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I have failed in making a memtest disc bootable and I don't have a program to use the ISO, though I tried 2 other working memory cards in all 4 of the memory modules. I have not overclocked and do not use IDE.
 

Farmer

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Dec 23, 2003
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What you're describing, like teekawh said, is more like a RAM problem than anything else. Have you tried rolling back to an older version of said nForce drivers? Have you tried flashing your BIOS to the latest version? Have you tried running with only 1 stick of RAM? Have you tried increasing RAM voltage/loosening RAM timings?
 

Bugen

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Jan 21, 2006
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Hmm, I have done the above except increasing the voltage and loosening RAM timing. Not really sure how to go about doing that.
 

DBSX

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Jan 24, 2006
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According to TechNet pages, both your BSODs point to possible faulty drivers (at least assumung that your first error is 0xBE not 0x8E). However if you started from scratch (ie complete reinstall) and still get the errors, I agree it could be RAM or might be your PSU.

If you have a floppy you can use the floppy version of Memtest as well.

\Dan