BSOD & Dump File please help

mastermtg · 11 Dec 2010

Ok after 48 hours here's the driver verifier results with 29 BSOD's. I'm turning driver verifier off now.

CarlTR6 · 11 Dec 2010

You can definitely turn off Driver Verifier. Every dump blamed either a Windows system driver or memory corruption. No third party drivers were blamed. Several dumps indicated nvstor32.sys was involved in the crash; but did not directly blame it. Other than the two drivers below, your drivers appear to be up to date. Good job updating them.

nvraid.sys Wed May 20 02:43:36 2009 - nVidia nForce RAID Driver. Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers.

nvstor32.sys Mon Jun 22 18:19:03 2009 - nVidia Storage Drivers. Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers.

I suggest that you run Memtest again from a cold boot after your computer has been off for a while, a couple of hours anyway. Let it run for 7 passes and post back your results. Post back with the results.

mastermtg · 12 Dec 2010

Well I did do a memtest 7 passes perfectly after a cold boot like the way you said there was no errors a few days back and posted the results.

I may have found a solution to the problem. One month ago I switched my original 2 x 1GB ram sticks because I was having random BSODS, I believe one of the orginal sticks were bad. So replaced both original sticks with 2 x 2GB ram sticks which I am using now (identical sticks that both passed the memtest criteria)...

So what I did now, was remove one of the 2GB sticks and run only one 2GB stick. So it works with no BSOD it's been about 30 hours. I read on some forums that people many people had similar problems when they ran 4GB of ram on Windows and it ran perfectly when they had 2GB or less on Win 7 32 bit system. So I want to attribute this to the reasons why I was getting BSOD's. But it was odd becuz my system did work for 3 weeks with 4GB of ram.

So if this is true, I was wondering if there's any settings I can change to make that last 2GB work or should I just forget about having 4GB ram and stick with 2GB?

CarlTR6 · 12 Dec 2010

I am glad you figured out the source of your problem. Good work. And thank you for letting us know.

I am not a hardware Guru; thus I cannot intelligently answer your question. I suggest your start a thread in the Hardware and Devices section, Hardware & Devices - Windows 7 Forums. There are some very knowledgeable hardware Gurus there. You will get your answer.

mastermtg · 12 Dec 2010

Will do. Thanks for your help CarlTR6. Take care.

CarlTR6 · 12 Dec 2010

You are most welcome for the help. I hope you get the RAM question sorted out. :)