Solved I've had many different BSODs randomly, and I'm at wit's end.

Drakon · Aug 5, 2012

The machine is barely four months old. Mobo is at factory defaults, and everything I have is showing all 8 cores. I had the cores unlocked at one point, but I thought that may have been part of the issue, so I relocked them with the BIOS.

I'll check the ASUS site shortly and I'll test the CPUZ as well.

Drakon · Aug 5, 2012

CPUZ log attached.

centaur78 · Aug 5, 2012

hmm

nothing much here.. its not unlocked still 8 core..

Well let me know what you see in with the ASUS software.... or you could check the bios and see what setting are there.

Oh .... if you do check the bios... do set the settings to default... and check to see if they make a difference...

Drakon · Aug 6, 2012

Per my wife's....(ahem) suggestion, I've set up an RMA for this. I can't send it til next week, but I'll work until then, just in case.

Also, all Bios are set to default.

centaur78 · Aug 6, 2012

Ok good

Has it by the way BSOD ?? Is it just the Heating thats the problem now ??

I have a feeling if CPU is heating at such high temperatures.... There may not be any Thermal Paste between CPU and and the Heatsink..... since dust has been ruled out ...this is the only other probable cause i can think of...

Then again there are cases where maybe the heat sink was not properly fixed to the motherboard..... Try checking this visually if possible...

Drakon · Aug 7, 2012

TECHNICALLY, it has not BSOD. However, it has completely locked up and crashed several times, forcing a reboot.

I'm currently thoroughly documenting my troubleshooting steps to the repairs department so when they boot the machine they can share in the torment it's given me.

I'm a little annoyed that I've had the machine for about 20 weeks, and 18 of those weeks has been spent troubleshooting, and THEN I have to pay to ship the machine back to the other side of the country, wait for them to rebuilt/replace it, and then wait another month for it to be sent back to me (it took well over a month to get the device when I first bought it).

/rantover

centaur78 · Aug 7, 2012

I understand how you feel

I hope we were able to help you as much as possible.....

If i were you i wouldn't even care to send it back to RMA....the point is the warranty still stays for 1 year... so in effect you will have maybe less than 6 months of warranty left even after getting it repaired...

Drakon · Aug 8, 2012

Well, since I'm hella stubborn, I'm doing one more thing. I'm going to install XP on my secondary drive as a once-and-for-all test, since I'm too broke to send the machine in right now (I have to pay for shipping from Upstate NY to CA, so I'm expecting 75-100 shipping).

If this works, I may try to milk a little more life out of this machine until warranty is almost out.

centaur78 · Aug 8, 2012

Attaboy !!

Now you know why we are here and passionate abt solving problems !!!!!

Drakon · Aug 8, 2012

Well, the way I figure it, if I can get it up and running with XP, then it means that it's a software issue. If it's still crapping out, then I can point that it's a hardware issue.

Drakon · Aug 9, 2012

Well, I could not find my XP disc, so I went ahead and went with Win7 on my other HDD right now, just as a test.

So far, so good. However, I have absolutely nothing non-default installed, except for Chrome, and the drivers for my motherboard's ethernet ports. I will install nothing until such time as I feel confident that there will be no issue.

Drakon · Aug 9, 2012

Nevermind. Just BSOD'd. At least it was an actual screen, instead of a freeze. BCCode 3B.

centaur78 · Aug 9, 2012

All right

Thats a start.. Keep checking the temperatures using speccy or speenfan... and also resmon to see what program is using the cpu the most...

Then 1 by 1 try installing the drivers.... this time... dont install directly from the software but unpack them so that you can use the update driver feature and search for these drivers and install the... this makes sure .... you dont add the company bloatware's...

Keep us posted

centaur78 · Aug 9, 2012

Drakon said:
Nevermind. Just BSOD'd. At least it was an actual screen, instead of a freeze. BCCode 3B.

Oh crap spoke too soon

BCCode 3B

This error has been linked to excessive paged pool usage and may occur due to user-mode graphics drivers crossing over and passing bad data to the kernel code.

which drivers are you using ??

Drakon · Aug 9, 2012

All Drivers I am using is default Windows 7 Pro 64, except for the motherboard ethernet port, which I installed right from the disc provided when I bought the PC (the ASUS disc with all the mobo drivers on it - not the Windows disc).

I do not exaggerate when I say that is all I have installed. Other than Windows, the only other program I have installed is Google Chrome. No other drivers, no other software. I've barely had the OS installed for twenty minutes at this point.

centaur78 · Aug 9, 2012

well

could you possibly reseat the graphics card

Drakon · Aug 9, 2012

When I took everything out yesterday to dust, I did just that. I'll do it again tomorrow, just in case, though.

If it makes any difference, this time it happened while I was in Chrome, while playing Avenger's Alliance on Facebook. (Don't judge me).

Drakon · Aug 9, 2012

A wild thought occurred as I was re-seating the video card.

I am currently testing the machine, and I am only using the onboard HDMI port.

centaur78 · Aug 10, 2012

What was the wild thought ???:huh:

Drakon · Aug 10, 2012

I'm sorry, I thought I was clear.

I had the wild idea of, instead of using the video card, just run using the onboard video for now, just to test it and see if it gives me BSOD. If it does not, then I can just ship the video card back, and try a different one. If it does, then I'm back to the drawing board.

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