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Random Computer Crashes - 10 Different Error Codes

Elfear

Elfear

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I'm scratching my head trying to figure out the cause of my random BSODs. I've never had so many in the 10yrs I've been messing with computers unless I was looking for max overclocks.

The trouble seems to have started when I installed Windows 8.1. Shutdowns are very random. They happen when surfing, gaming, Office apps, etc.

System Specs (everything is at stock):

Motherboard - Gigabyte UD4H
CPU - 4670k (delidded)
CPU Cooler - waterblock
GPU - 780 Lightning
Storage - 4x128GB OCZ Vertex 3 drives in RAID 0 for games, 128GB Plextor M5 for Win 8.1, 256GB Vertex 4 split into two partitions for Win 7 and programs, 3TB Seagate Barracuda for backup
PSU - 1050W Enermax Revo


Here are the error codes I get:

NTFS_File_System (NTFS.sys)
DPC_Watchdog_Violation
System_Service_Exception (win32k.sys)
Event_Tracing_Fatal_Error
Kernel_Security_Check_Failure
Memory_Management
Page_Fault_in_Nonpaged_Area
IRQL_Not_Less_Or_Equal
System_Thread_Exception_Not_Handled (dxgmms1.sys)
WHEA_Uncorrectable_Error (I believe this one is due to overclocking)

It seems like the common theme is either the harddrives or the ram.

Here is what I have tried so far:

Ran Prime95 Blend at stock settings for 4hrs (one thread failed after 2.5hrs)
Windows drive error checking (one drive had an error but Windows corrected it)
Newest drivers/firmware for GPU, motherboard, SATA controllers, SSDs, and audio
Windows is up to date

This has been plaguing me for over a month now and I'm out of easy ideas to try.

Any suggestions?
 
I'd try booting a Linux live CD and run it for a day or two to see if you have any failures independent of the SSDs and Windows install. If not, I'd immediately suspect you have a issue with one or more of your SSDs (OCZ isn't the best brand, so it isn't beyond the realm of possibility that you could have gotten one or more bad ones).

Do you have any monitoring software installed like Speedfan or HWMonitor that you can use to monitor CPU and GPU temps at the time of the next failure?
 
I still wouldn't rule out the memory. Memtest is known to show bad memory as good and Page_Fault_in_Nonpaged_Area is almost always the result of bad memory. Can you try your memory one stick at a time?
 
Ran the AIDA64 CPU, FPU, cache, and system memory test for 12hrs without issue. Tried the "local disks" stress test and I got a BSOD within 10-20 minutes.

Steltek said:
I'd try booting a Linux live CD and run it for a day or two to see if you have any failures independent of the SSDs and Windows install. If not, I'd immediately suspect you have a issue with one or more of your SSDs (OCZ isn't the best brand, so it isn't beyond the realm of possibility that you could have gotten one or more bad ones).

Do you have any monitoring software installed like Speedfan or HWMonitor that you can use to monitor CPU and GPU temps at the time of the next failure?
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I'll give that a shot and see if I still get the same BSODs in Linux.

I have been monitoring the CPU and GPU temps via Real Temp and MSI Afterburner respectively.

AIDA64 - CPU maxed at 45C
Prime95 Small FFT - CPU maxed at 55C
Valley 1.0 - GPU maxed at 55C

denis280 said:
it was the VIA audio drivers
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Thanks. I'll check my Realtek drivers for compatibility issues.

Torn Mind said:
Might pay to use whocrashed to see what the dumps say.
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The list of BSOD errors is in the OP. The most recent ones I got today are the following:

IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL (ntoskrnl.exe)
IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL (ntfs.sys)
PFN LIST CORRUPT (ntoskrnl.exe)
DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION (ntoskrnl.exe)
NTFS FILE SYSTEM (ntfs.sys)

Matt1970 said:
I still wouldn't rule out the memory. Memtest is known to show bad memory as good and Page_Fault_in_Nonpaged_Area is almost always the result of bad memory. Can you try your memory one stick at a time?
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So try running each stick for a day or two under normal usage to see if I get a BSOD or run Memtest on each stick?
 
Matt1970 said:
I still wouldn't rule out the memory. Memtest is known to show bad memory as good and Page_Fault_in_Nonpaged_Area is almost always the result of bad memory. Can you try your memory one stick at a time?
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I would agree here.
I had a machine that generally passed memtest, but would fail prime95 blend (passed OCCT and Intel burn test too). It took me forever to figure out one of my sticks was bad.

Try running on just one stick, and then the other. Throw in some prime95 blend testing overnight while your doing this too.

edit: just wanted to point out, I'm not saying I think its a memory problem, but don't rule it out yet.
 
serpretetsky said:
I would agree here.
I had a machine that generally passed memtest, but would fail prime95 blend (passed OCCT and Intel burn test too). It took me forever to figure out one of my sticks was bad.

Try running on just one stick, and then the other. Throw in some prime95 blend testing overnight while your doing this too.

edit: just wanted to point out, I'm not saying I think its a memory problem, but don't rule it out yet.
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I've actually got 4 sticks but I'll try each one and see what happens.
 
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