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HIS 4890 & BSODS

J

JJ650

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I just recently breathed some fresh air into a 5y.o. Lineage II acount to get myself back into the mood of gridfest MMO's and Aion (don't ask why, just felt the urge to do so).
I started having BSODs with L2 right away at completely random times. I chalked it up to be a L2 quirk and this card, but I don't ever recall having that issue with older cards.

I installed the Aion open beta and goofed off with it for a few hours. 2 Bsods within about an hour.

The card is stock. No voltage bumps, no timing bumps or anything. Bone stock.

These 2 games are the only 2 I am having an issue with. Farcry2 runs flawlessly (which is the same engine that Aion uses 😕), BF2 runs fine, C&C has no issues, etc.

I chk the dmp. file and all it says the root cause is hardware.

Any ideas?
OS is Vista-64. the rest of the systems specs are in my sig.
**EDIT**
PS is Antec 550w
 
I've had a 4870 512 @ stock BSOD with various games due to some issue with atikvmag.dll. Resetting the BIOS from OC settings to "Optimized Defaults" stopped the BSODs from happening. No idea if this will help you but felt like mentioning it since I noticed your CPU is OCed.

I never found the root cause to the BSODs since I haven't cared enough to redo the OC process. I kept PCIe freq at 100 MHz though and the OC RAM settings were actually at slower speed & timings than my non-OC RAM settings.
 
Run GPU-z then play Aion for about 10 minutes, your memory or VRMs could be overheating at stock fan profile if your case doesn't have good ventilation
 

> E8400 @ 4.02ghz

This might matter, the new games might be using more RAM or stressing the CPU more, with the OC not being as stable as you thought.
 
I'll run GPU-z and see what the actual temps are.

As far as the overclock, I've stressed it with prime95 for 24hrs straight with nothing wrong. I'll try a night of stock speeds and see how it goes.
 
dude... AION use far cry 1 engine... in other words the Crytek one

far cry 2 use dunia engine....
 
Try testing the CPU with occt instead of prime95. They use the same algorithm to find errors but in all my testing OCCT finds them 10 times faster. Try running it for 24 hours and post back after that. Also, check to make sure your gpu isn't overheating for some reason, just in case.
 
**Update**

After digging thru the dmp files and using the proper symbols...I saw this:


STACK_COMMAND: kb

FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner

MODULE_NAME: hardware

IMAGE_NAME: hardware

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 0

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: X64_0x124_GenuineIntel__UNKNOWN

BUCKET_ID: X64_0x124_GenuineIntel__UNKNOWN

Followup: MachineOwner


Turns out it WAS the overclock. Regardless of stress testing and other testing, there can still be screw ups.

V.Core voltage got bumped and ram voltage as well. Not a single BSOD after that so far.

 
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