Hi Guys,
About a month and a half ago, I put together a new system. Specs:
AMD 955 BE
Scythe MUGEN-2 Cooler (w/ AS5)
Gigabyte GA-MA-790XT-UD4P
4x2 GB G.Skill DDR3 1600
64GB G.Skill Falcon SSD
1 TB WD Caviar Black HD
VisionTek Radeon HD 4770
Samsung SATA DVD-Burner
OCZ 700W Modular PSU
Thermaltake V9 Black Case
Vista 64 Home Premium
Build went fine for the first few weeks. I installed all my stuff, played around with Everest to get a baseline on the temps, didn't tweak too much as I didn't really get a chance.
After 2~3 weeks, I started noticing BSODs. They'd typically occur overnight, and I thought that maybe an update had hung. However, they started becoming more frequent. The majority of the error messages I was getting were IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. Sometimes I'd get something about Memory Cache, or trying to write to read-only memory. I also noticed that, even when I didn't hit a BSOD, Vista services would randomly stop working.
Like a noob, I thought that some of this might be due to my SSD. I dl'ed the Windows 7 RC, and was going to use that until my retail version shipped. I burned the disk with Nero, and always set it to verify after burning. After going through nearly 6 DVDs, I could never get through a burn without errors. This got me thinking that maybe my SATA controller (north/South Bridge?) was being squirrelly.
Well, long story short - after several bad installs of W7 (bad burn on the disc - I got nowhere), and Vista, I'm at a complete loss. I keep getting the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD - even on install to both my SSD and HD. I know it's not the drives. I also know 99.9999% that it's not a CPU heat issue, as I remember none of my everest temps ever going much higher than 40C (No, I don't remember the exact temp - I just know it wasn't hot) while priming all 4 cores.
I've no OS on the drives now. I've lost most of everything I had on there (not a big deal, but a PITA). What I want to figure out is what could it be? I'm thinking of loading my BIOS fail-safes and using just the SSD and 1 stick of memory and adding harware back in until something happens. My only concern is that if it is the mobo that's bad, I'll be wasting my time.
Ideas?
EDIT: After thinking about it some more, I think I may start with memtest before bothering to install anything else.
About a month and a half ago, I put together a new system. Specs:
AMD 955 BE
Scythe MUGEN-2 Cooler (w/ AS5)
Gigabyte GA-MA-790XT-UD4P
4x2 GB G.Skill DDR3 1600
64GB G.Skill Falcon SSD
1 TB WD Caviar Black HD
VisionTek Radeon HD 4770
Samsung SATA DVD-Burner
OCZ 700W Modular PSU
Thermaltake V9 Black Case
Vista 64 Home Premium
Build went fine for the first few weeks. I installed all my stuff, played around with Everest to get a baseline on the temps, didn't tweak too much as I didn't really get a chance.
After 2~3 weeks, I started noticing BSODs. They'd typically occur overnight, and I thought that maybe an update had hung. However, they started becoming more frequent. The majority of the error messages I was getting were IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. Sometimes I'd get something about Memory Cache, or trying to write to read-only memory. I also noticed that, even when I didn't hit a BSOD, Vista services would randomly stop working.
Like a noob, I thought that some of this might be due to my SSD. I dl'ed the Windows 7 RC, and was going to use that until my retail version shipped. I burned the disk with Nero, and always set it to verify after burning. After going through nearly 6 DVDs, I could never get through a burn without errors. This got me thinking that maybe my SATA controller (north/South Bridge?) was being squirrelly.
Well, long story short - after several bad installs of W7 (bad burn on the disc - I got nowhere), and Vista, I'm at a complete loss. I keep getting the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD - even on install to both my SSD and HD. I know it's not the drives. I also know 99.9999% that it's not a CPU heat issue, as I remember none of my everest temps ever going much higher than 40C (No, I don't remember the exact temp - I just know it wasn't hot) while priming all 4 cores.
I've no OS on the drives now. I've lost most of everything I had on there (not a big deal, but a PITA). What I want to figure out is what could it be? I'm thinking of loading my BIOS fail-safes and using just the SSD and 1 stick of memory and adding harware back in until something happens. My only concern is that if it is the mobo that's bad, I'll be wasting my time.
Ideas?
EDIT: After thinking about it some more, I think I may start with memtest before bothering to install anything else.
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