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BSOD's, WhoCrashed says ntoskrnl.exe
Hi guys, PC noob builder here. 3 weeks ago I built up a gaming pc for my son (specs are in my profile for those interested). The build went very well considering it was my first time ever (prior to this my most adventurous attempt inside a case was switching out a bad video card). I used the tutorials from Newegg, and like I said the build & os install went pretty well. Shortly after original install & lots of automatic updates we began getting seemingly random BSOD's which I really couldn't figure out, so I took it to Geek Squad. They had it for several days and tested the crap out of each piece of hardware, could find no problems. Did a new install of the OS there and things are MUCH better, however I am still getting 1-2 BSOD's a day, and almost always overnight as the pc idles. I used Whocrashed, and a long string of crashes are attributed to ntoskrnl.exe:
example: On Sun 4/21/2013 7:43:41 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\042113-20202-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x75C00)
Bugcheck code: 0x34 (0x50853, 0xFFFFF8800C2AE588, 0xFFFFF8800C2ADDE0, 0xFFFFF80002C81B05)
Error: CACHE_MANAGER
file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT Kernel & System
Bug check description: This indicates that a problem occurred in the file system's cache manager.
This might be a case of memory corruption. More often memory corruption happens because of software errors in buggy drivers, not because of faulty RAM modules.
The crash took place in the Windows kernel. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver that cannot be identified at this time.
I read the posts on the forum where others experienced similar problems pointing to ntoskrnl.exe, but before I jump in and start changing things I thought I would post my own thread and dump files to see what the experts think is the best way to solve this pesky issue. Thanks in advance, having read a big volume of posts I have to say this forum is completely awesome and the amount & quality of help offered is just fantastic.
If I need to provide any other info please let me know, Dave
[edit] by 'tested the crap out of', I mean memtest and stress tests as well as checking volatges and connections, they really went over it thoroughly and could find no issues.
Last edited by bunabayashi; 22 Apr 2013 at 12:22.