Keep getting the dreaded BSOD with Windows 7 Home Premium x64 - sometimes the system runs fine for weeks and then others it will crash a couple of times a day for a few days and then all fine again :-( Isn't any particular error either, have seen... PFN_LIST_CORRUPT MEMORY_MANAGEMENT IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BAD_POOL_HEADER And a couple I've forgotten lol It seems that most of them are memory related but I've tested this and no errors, updated all drivers, reinstalled Windows and so on. Had the odd BSOD when the system was first built from new but it seems to be getting worse. There is no real pattern either, has happened whilst browsing, gaming and sat idle with me AFK. When the system crashes / reboots you can hear what sounds like all the hard drives spinning up, I'm also getting fairly regular "disc consistency checks" even when there haven't been any BSOD / on a brand new drive. Is the PSU possibly at fault with some kind of voltage fluctuation that's causing things to go screwy? Full system specs are: Intel 3570K @ 3.4ghz with a huge Arctic Freezer cooler Gigabyte Z77P-D3 motherboard 2x4gb Crucial RAM MSI Radeon 280X 3x 7200rpm hdd 1x 5400rpm hdd 1x mSATA cache drive fitted on motherboard DVD writer XFX core 550w PSU Cooler Master 690 II case
Have you tried to update your motherboard bios? https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z77P-D3-rev-10#support-dl
Yeah updated it a couple of weeks ago when installing the cache SSD - for some reason the raid bios was corrupted but a reflash resolved it.
Not yet, will give it a go though... Rather ironically its been fine running pretty much 12/18hrs a day for the best part of a week, turned it off last night and about 10secs after booting to the desktop this morning it blue screened - restarted and all ok again.
Just an update / bit of info.... Seems one of the RAM modules was faulty, was passing memtest86 but I'd only tried testing it after the system had been running for a bit - tried this morning after the system had been off all night and thousands of errors. Checked each module individually and have RMA'd the faulty one with Crucial, hopefully they will honour the lifetime warranty despite it being the best part of 6 years old. Fingers crossed that'll sort it, a bit of an odd one for the RAM to fail when cold but work fine when warmed up.
If you're OCing your 280X, you're quite possibly on the ragged edge of your PSU's power limit anyway, I'd say. At the very least, you're operating it past it's optimal power draw, so if issues persist, it might be worth going up to a ~650W+.
Pretty sure the 280X has a mild factory OC but beyond that i've not tweaked it, will keep an eye out for PSU issues but so far so good... Crucial replaced the stick of RAM and that seems to have done the trick - very impressed TBH, got the RMA auth within a few mins of filling the form out, free post address to send it back and from posting it to getting the replacement took just over a week
