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BSOD 0x000000c5 while idle. I've run out of troubleshooting ideas.
So, noscript needs to be disabled so that formatting doesn't get eaten. Good to know.
Windows 7x64 Professional, OS version 6_1_7601
Service Pack 1
Intel Core i7 Nehalem 940@2.93Ghz
No automatic hibernation/sleep modes enabled.
MOBO: DELL Inc 0P270J (I know, I know. Money's tight, yeah?)
ACHI 1.2
UPS did not throw any faults, 100% charge.
CPU, HD, & Video Card temps are ~40C, +-4*
MEMORY:
6GB Physical Memory
Hard drive configuration:
SAMSUNG HD103UJ
Disk 0: 1TB, F:/ 4GB Paging File
WDC WD20EARS (Oldest)
Disk 1: Dynamic. ~240GB C:/Boot, 10GB S:/, ~1.7GB G:\, ~300MB unallocated
ST3000DM001
Disk 2: 3TB, H:/ 4GB Paging File
OCZ-Vertex3
Disk 3: Dynamic ~240GB C:/Boot, 1GB unallocated
C:/ is a Mirror, SYSTEM, BOOT, and CRASH DUMP volume.
All Drives are SCSI
All file systems are NFTS
All file systems are >30% free.
Monitor Configuration:
HDMI to Samsun B2330H
DVI-D to old Dell 1905FB
&User/AppData/Roaming: ~6k files, 886MB. (Sorry! I'm trying to clean it up. Put the workspace on the desktop was a bad idea, lots of projects to move to a new location. It's a pain.)
&Default/Appdata/Roaming: 1MB
Hello!
I've been having an interesting little problem here, and because I have a slightly odd setup, I'm going to post everything here, as I couldn't find similar problems. Figured that if someone else gets this problem later down the line, this might help.
In particular, the original serious symptom was the following:
0x000000C5
0xFFFFF8A01B0C8A98
0x00000002
0x00000000
0xFFFFF80003FF8A9B
Historical:
~2 years ago, I was having a hard drive issue. I used windows "Disk Management" to make a raid 1 to an SSD, as I was worried about the SSD dying. It's been stable since then, however it does have the issue that it needs to re-sync every time I reboot. That happens once every other week, so it's only a ~30 min slowdown every once in a while. I'm okay with this.
It helped me save my install when I got hit by the FBI virus by disconnecting a drive ~30 seconds after being hit, figuring out how to safely remove it, applying the safe removal to the non-live drive, then mirroring back to the fixed disk. 'twas nice.
My swap file allocations are on 3 other hard drives, each ~4GB in size. No swap file on the dynamic drive, or on the remaining partition of the mirrored drive.
~8 months ago, I installed a new video card, Gigabyte Radeon HD R7 260X
In the last couple of months, I've been having the occasional display artifact while using firefox. A small square of the webpage will have textual artifacts that are dependent on what parts of the text I have highlighted, or how far I have scrolled. Refreshing the webpage gets rid of them. This has only occurred within the firefox webpage so far, not in games, not on the desktop, not in complex spreadsheets.
I ran Driver Booster 2 a few weeks ago. Some of the ATI sound chipsets were update.
I may have a corrupted User Profile, as I get a document called &username upon startup with no extension, that when opened in a text file shows the network interface list and IVP route tables.
Steps done so far.
Rebooted. No issues for 15 minutes. Firefox was fine.
Checked event viewer for last 12 hours worth of logs. Last event before BSOD was @ 15:06, reboot was at 16:22. Of the last 10 events, the only odd one was at 15:05, gupdate couldn't find event id 0. The rest were service control manager events, and a set of audits at 15:00. I stopped the google update service, as I can update chrome manually, and standalone g-talk is going to be discontinued very soon. There's an odd chance that set it off, but I *highly* doubt it. Cosmic rays would be more likely. heh.
I checked Device Manager, no issues.
I ran Verifier:
Create custom settings,
Select individual settings
Selected everything but "Low Resource Simulation"
Selected all drivers NOT provided by Microsoft
Rebooted.
Then, it got past the BIOS screen, and after ~10 minutes at a black screen, I restarted.
This time, upon starting normally, I got a 0x000000d1 with volmgrx.sys
I rebooted again, and did a Dell "Pre-boot system assessment". I got a "2000-0146" error, which tells me a hard drive is kinda pootched. Fair enough. All other tests passed.
I rebooted into safe mode, startup had no issues. As of 1.5 hours in, no BSOD. Restarting.
Restarting got into the Starting Windows display, black screen again. Disconnected B2330 Monitor.
Restarting gave me 'Windows Boot Manager 0xc000000e We are getting somewhere! Try to start windows normally, again. Black screen.
Restarting into safe mode with networking. It's a pain looking at a 90* monitor. Booted fine.
Plugged in B2330 Monitor again, deleted verifier settings, restarting normally. I'm doing these things to acquire more system information.
Booted fine. Starting PC wizard 2014 to gather system information, as it would not work in either Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking.
I used CMD to get into to diskpart, then the following commands:
list volume
//C was Volume 2
select volume 2 OR select volume C
//Currently waiting for disk to finishing rebuilding.
//Wait for C:/ to finish rebuilding after latest boot. Done.
break DISK=1
"error: The specified plex is a the current system or boot plex."
//figured. Nice grammar error BTW.
//Crash dump files attached.
Hardware disconnecting spiny disk drive of software raid. I'll fix the dynamic disk in Partition Manager, and plug it back in and fix those drives later as well. Here comes windows complaining that it can't find a bunch of stuff installed over all of the disconnected drives.
Needing to change the boot sequence in the BIOS. I keep reflexively hitting esc-enter, not saving my changes. D'oh!
Boots pretty fast, now that the spiny disk is disconnected.
Yep, it's complaining. I might have also lost the File table on the mirrored drive.
The old drive needed to be 'imported' in Partition Manager. All 3 partitions on it were recognized. This fixed the complaints.
The pop-up of the extension-less %username file that has the IP tables and such still happens. No biggie.
Restarting after re-running Verifier
No-SOLD on running verifier the first time. Black Screened.
On restart, selected run startup repair, got 0xc000000e, inaccessability. I'm guessing I need to fix up the BIOS Again. Selected Start Normally,
Got 0x000000c5 (FFFFF8A007E42400 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000, 0xFFFFF80003FBC123)
BIOS was booting off the spiny disk drive. Changed it to the SSD. Evidence mounting that it's the disk drive.
Rebooting, attempting to run verifier.
Tried to go into safe mode, black screen. Tried again, got in, deleted verifier settings.
Booting normally, installed windows updates that didn't like a raid configuration, and changing video card drivers from latest beta to latest stable. (I was hoping the beta drivers would get ride of the firefox artifacts)
I enabled verbose boot and shutdown options in msconfig and the group policy editor.
Looking through anything of particular note in event viewer has shown me the following:
Some warnings about verifying system profile folders Favourits,Music,Pictures,Desktop,Videos. Meh.
A half-dozen warnings telling me I haven't connected to my wi-fi yet. Meh.
A gateway resolution error. Meh.
A couple application SID does not match Conductor SID with CCC and MOM.exe Meh.
The Custom DDL's are being loaded for every application. The libraries in question? None. Awesome warning.
DHCP error. Go-Go wifi.
Some Boot and Shutdown degredation, I'm guessing that's due to verbose startup and shutdown. I don't mind.
So... nothing.
Currently: Hoping it doesn't happen again? My plan is that I have no plan. All I know is that verifier isn't working, and I don't know enough about it to use it to troubleshoot effectively.
Future Plans.
No idea how to execute verifier under previous settings for full 24 hours, to find any more BSOD's.
My Current theory is that it's my video card, or my corrupted user profile. The spiny disk copy of the mirrored volume could also be failing, but as windows software raid 1 tends to be incompatible with almost everything else low level like this, it's hard to say. You can't even run the system evaluation index with a software raid. //Golf Clap
******* I thought that you'd get the volume Letter, not *just* the Label names in the dump files. Sigh. Here's the translation table:
S: SharedStorage
G: ~INVALID MEM ALLOC...
C: ~SEGFAULT PANIC STOP... //THE ONLY IMPORTANT ONE
F: ~BAD POOL LOADER...
H: ~NO_VOLUME_LABEL...
Yeah, I was playing a prank on someone, submitting files that ended up having a bunch of BSOD error codes if they weren't paying attention. Or something like that. It's been a few years. It's worth a laugh every now and again when it comes up. :-p Sometimes windows update won't work with a software raid-1, which is kinda ridiculous as well.
Other notes:
spXX.sys is Daemon tools, XX can be various letters.
Last edited by Chrispikula; 11 Dec 2014 at 01:37. Reason: Formatting was eaten, fixing post, updates, theorizing, Volume legend, File Attached