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BSOD during Windows startup + Random Crashes
Newbie here, I usually just looking at the forum to solve my pc problems or my friends'. I considered myself as someone who at least know generally what to do to fix pc problems. But for this case I give up and hope the good folks here could give me some clues.
There are 2 major issues here:
1. BSOD during Windows Startup
The problem
So after the loading screen loads up for some time (where you see the windows logo) it will then go straight to BSOD. This happens in random occurrence and happens like 70% of the time. Sometimes it won't go to windows at all, just keep on restarting for like 4 hours.
The error message is 0x101 "A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor..."
Some of the monitoring tools like hwmonitor sometimes also caused the same BSOD.
I think all the minidump files come from this error.
My solution
What I usually do is either let it reboot and pray that it goes through to windows
or I go through safe mode, uninstall the NVIDIA driver (using Display Driver Uninstaller), reboot to normal windows (it always reboot when the display driver is uninstalled), re-install the display driver and reboot. The 2nd method usually has increased chance of successfully going in to windows.
Possible root cause
- something wrong with GPU (bad copy), although I have used it around couple of months without problems whatsoever
- old PSU, unstable
- old processor
Possibly dismissed root cause
- This first happened when I started to try windows 8, thought that OS is the problem then I move back to windows 7. Unfortunately the problem still persists.
- I played around with flashing the bios of SLI mobo version to my non-SLI mobo. Have successfully re-flashed it back to the latest version of non-SLI. Problem still persists.
- There was time that disabling HT feature makes the error go away, but it doesn't really affect anything now. Possibly placebo effect.
- Have tried changing the TdrDelay to 8 secs. Doesn't help.
2. Random Crashes
The problem
During normal usage there are times that the pc just freeze, either with the loop sound like 'errrrr' or just freeze. This happens randomly, either when I had only used the PC for mere 1 hour or even doesn't even showed up after my streak of gaming along the weekend. So no temperature issues as just last weekend I managed to play all day. Only restart the PC once or twice when the PC was sluggish (of course reboot means facing the 1st problem). A rare occurrence will be the pc automatically reboot itself.
My solution
Hard restart
Possible root cause
- For me to be able to use all the 6 DIMM slots and run stable I have to bump the vcore to 1.63V. I've read that this is a common issue in X58 based chipset. There are possibilities that this stability issue still causing random freeze. (I used 2 different memory brand btw)
- Something to do with problem 1
- again unstable PSU
- again old processor
- fail HD
*Test done (early September):
- tried to run windows memory diagnostic (with the same current configuration + problems above) no error found
- tried prime95 in 2 occasions (small FFT for 3-4 hours, blend for 10+ hours) nothing happened
- Tried furmark overnight to see if GPU faulty...nothing
Appreciate if anyone have some clues of what broken here and if possible to fix.
I plan to upgrade to X99 in near future, however would like to keep the GPU if possible and sell the rest to 2nd hand market so it won't sit in my house useless (too many old PC already). However can't do the plan if there are still some issues with it.