Diagnostic and BSOD help

[FullMetal]

Hello everyone

I've run into my first BSOD since building my rig in 2010, I guess it had to happen sooner or later. I wish it was never but here I am.

So I got the first BSOD on monday after about an hour of playing Starcraft II. It tried to restart but didn't so I manually shut down by holding the power button. Tried to boot it after 10 secs, wouldn't boot so I unplugged it over night.

Turned it on in the morning and it booted, thought the troubles were over. Later that day I jumped back on to starcraft II after some light internet browsing and youtube watching. 20 minutes later another BSOD.

It didn't want to boot again after several attempts so I took battery out of mobo and unplugged, put back together and it booted. This time it automatically asked to do a restore when it booted. Did the restore, installed all my Norton definitions again and it automatically downloaded windows updates. Turned it off to finish updates. It got stuck at 16 of 19 so I left it over night to see if it would finish. It didn't, so I forced it to shut down. On restart it loaded like nothing happened but then it froze/crashed/screen tearing while internet browsing.

I then shutdown and loaded into memtest86, ran one full cycle with no errors so I'm assuming RAM is fine I guess I could run it over night to be sure, then got OCCT and ran the gpu test for 40 minutes with no errors. Then ran the large packet cpu test and it BSOD after about 2 minutes.

Here is the BSOD message:
technical information: STOP: 0x0000007E (0xFFFFFFFFC0000005, 0xFFFFF880011D80c2, 0xFFFFF880031BD8E8, 0xFFFFF880031BD140)

cdrom.sys - Address FFFFF880011D80c2 base at FFFFF880011B8000, Datestamp 4ce79298

My system specs are:
AMD phenom II x4 965 3.4 ghz
Gigabyte 7970 3gb gpu
ASUS M4A78T-E with BIOS version 3204 -- 3/15/2010
8GB of g.skill ddr3 ram 4 sticks x 2 gb
750 watt OCZ zt-series psu

the only thing OCed is the gpu but it came like that

thanks

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

First, check temps.
Second, run memtest on individual sticks.

 

[FullMetal]

Well my room temperature is at 22.3 celcius as measured by the thermometer I brew with.

Coretemp shows the cores at 44-46 while watching a netflix video

started OCCT up with the large data set test and temps got to 63 and then the BSOD again.

now about to test each RAM stick individually with memtest86.

*update* RAM tested individually for one full pass. no errors found.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Well my room temperature is at 22.3 celcius as measured by the thermometer I brew with.

Coretemp shows the cores at 44-46 while watching a netflix video

started OCCT up with the large data set test and temps got to 63 and then the BSOD again.

now about to test each RAM stick individually with memtest86.

*update* RAM tested individually for one full pass. no errors found.

You need to test each stick with multiple passes.
What are the temps on your GPU?

 

[FullMetal]

at idle the gpu is at 33, running OCCT: GPU 3d test its getting to 63-64 with a fan speed of 74%. I'll boot up memtest now, any particular reason why running all 4 sticks at once is a bad idea?

*update* ran 5 passes of memtest and found no errors

 

[denis280]

any particular reason why running all 4 sticks at once is a bad idea?

yes to find a bad one.if there is one

 

[Steltek]

Have you tried to run SFC /SCANNOW from an elevated command prompt to check your Windows systems files?