Help requested!!

[Alarinn]

Last Wednesday my water pump on my rig failed while I was on the phone. By the time I heard the warning beeps it had already shut off. I have no idea what temp it got before it shutdown. I put on an air cooler and had it running up in 30 minutes. The water pump failed because of a short in either the psu or pump wiring. With the air cooler on, I started to get these kmixer.sys BSOD and I figured it was because of the cooler not cooling as well as the water block. The errors occurred in Guild Wars after about 10 to 15 minutes.

I put the water block back on and I still got the kmixer.sys BSOD and occasionally some other STOP errors. I went ahead and installed the latest nVidia drivers and BIOS and now when it dies, I get no error, but a standard BSOD anyway.

I looked at the CPU, mobo, ram, and video card and I see no damage. None at all. Here are my specs:

Abit NF7S r2
XP2500 Barton (190x11.5)
OCZ 2x512 DC Low latency ram 2-3-3-11 CAS 2.5
PNY 6800 GT (AGP)
Antec 420 Truepower
Laing 12 volt water pump

Any ideas? The BSOD occurs in one game so far - Guild Wars. I tried WoW and CoH and after 30 minutes nada. I did get a IRQ_NOT_LESS_THAN BSOD at lunch today dling CoH updates. Thanks for any info!!!

 

[daveybrat]

Stupid question, but have you tried running your processor at stock speeds??

 

[2cpuminimum]

Assuming you replaced the water pump and got it working again before you switched back to the waterblock, did you use a new application of arctic silver V as a thermal interface?

 

[Alarinn]

No and yes. If I have to go back to stock settings and everything works, then that tells me I damaged the CPU?

I did change one setting - CAS from 2 to 2.5 and I was able to play for 2 hours last night without a crash. I'll keep testing for the remainder of the week. Some ideas thrown around by others were I might have corrupted windows during the crash.

I don't do anything with my handy AS5🙂