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BSOD during games, crossfire 6950 - ntoskrnl.exe
Hi everyone,
Prior to this, everything was perfectly stable. I recently installed a second Radeon 6950 in crossfire and have been experiencing chronic BSOD crashes after 10-15 minutes in any game. The BSODs dont happen at any other time. Stress testing with Furmark doesnt cause any BSODs, so I dont think its a temperature/stress issue.
Ive tried the following:
- Swapped power supplies to a Seasonic Platinum 1000W
- Run each card individually (no problems)
- Wipe drivers clean with Driver Sweeper and install different versions (settled on 12.1 Catalysts)
- Swap card positions and use a different Crossfire bridge (extended period of time until a BSOD)
- Monitor temps which never go above 90C even at full load
- Use Driver Verifier followed by Startup Repair (to no avail)
Using Driver Verifier actually gives me a BSOD right before booting to desktop and punts me to Startup Repair, which finds a problem with ntoskrnl.exe but cant repair it. This happens in a loop and BSODs every time it boots with Verifier. Ive also tried booting normally (without Verifier on) straight to the Win7 DVD to do a startup repair, but no errors were found.
Looking at the dmp files in BlueScreenViewer always shows ntoskrnl.exe along with some other random files being responsible, but never the same one except for ntoskrnl.exe
Im at my wits end! I dont want to have to reinstall a fresh copy of Windows and reinstall all of my programs if I dont have to. Is there anything I can do? Ive attached all of my minidumps. Thanks in advance!
Intel Q6600 @ 3.6GHz
Asus Maximus Formula
8GB OCZ DDR2-800
ATI Radeon 6950 Crossfire
HDDs:
- 64GB Crucial M4 SSD
- 500GB Seagate 7200.11
- 1TB WD Black
- 1TB WD Green