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event 41 lockups help lots of info! UPDATE!
Ok I'm going to try to present the information i have in the easiest way possible. If you need any more info please ask and I'll do my best to get it to you. I'd also like to add a qick apology for the less than perfect punctuation, I'm typing with on hand due to a recent injury (cut my arm with a grinder) but i try my best still anyway. i can post pics of my arm after the surgery too later if you want haha.
- crashes are consistent in the form of a total lockup. screen remains displaying last image before the crash. rarely accompanied by terrible scratching sounds coming from the speakers which subside momentarily. also rarely accompanied by last second or so sound heard looping.
- uploaded some pictures of a crash with HWmonitor running as well as the sf diagnostic tool dump i made.
What I have done already (I was going to call this "what i know" but i guess i cant really know for sure.
what seems right.
- tested memory with memtest 86+ and sisoft sandra, no crashes or errors
- Tested graphics cards with fur(proper name since forgotten lol) no crashes.
- tested graphics cards with vmt, no errors.
- tested cpu with sandra and a couple other stress tests.
- i think ive eliminated the power supply as the problem by running on only 1 graphics card and 1 stick of ram.
reproducing the problem.
- Run World of warcraft for several hours, crashes randomly with seemingly no set time or cause, however does seem to happen more often on load screens.)
- run unigine heaven benchmark, crashes randomly during benchmarking (never without actually starting the benchmark process even though its already doing all the 3d modelling and such. often freezes on loading screens when i swith settings making it reload.
- has also done it once while burning a movie (during transcoding and not the actual burning process
Oddities
- no minidump
- no bsod
- stressing individual componants of the system never seems to reproduce the problem.
- switching my graphics cards and ram around seems to solve the problem for a short while.
Thanks for the help guys!
Last edited by Gw2; 07 Mar 2010 at 16:46.