littleraskol
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This is a custom-built desktop system. I built it at the end of September and it has been running fine with no problems up until this month. Since the beginning of the month, it has BSODed 4 times: Dec. 2nd, Dec. 6th, Dec. 19th, and today (Dec. 22nd). Each time, using "BlueScreenView" it shows that the driver causing it was "ntoskrnl.exe" and the error code was: 0x0000003b (For the BSOD that happened today, Windows did not capture a minidump for some reason, so I can only speculate that it was the same error...)
There is no real consistency in what causes it. The screen will just randomly "mess up" with kaleidoscopic distortion, any sound playing will stutter, and then the system crashes to a BSOD. I have installed no new hardware since I built the computer. The last two programs I installed before this began were Skyrim (Nov. 28th) and CDBurnerXP (Nov. 26th). It's hard for me to see how either of these could be the culprit, since it has never BSODed while they were running.
My only "guess" as to what might cause it is a partitioning issue. When I first installed Win7, it took up the whole disk (1 TB) with one partition. Later, I created separate OS and DATA partitions. However, the Windows disk management utility did not allow me to create the OS partition of the size I wanted, it limited me to something like 400 GB. I used GParted on an Unbuntu live USB to make the partitions I desired (250 GB OS and 750 GB DATA). I think this was a month before and BSODs showed up. If this is the problem, I will just have to re-intall Windows. I may do that anyway since I am going to install a separate hybrid drive for OS and applications. Unfortunately, I have no system restore points from before Dec. 6th.
Memtest86+ (about 6 passes), the Windows memory testing utility, and disk check have found no errors. I have not run Driver Verifier, but I will soon.
System Specs in quote:
"dump.zip" contains the minidump folder, the system health report HTML, and the "Windows_NT6_BSOD_jcgriff2" report. The system health report is kind of messed up; it doesn't seem to know that I have antivirus installed (PC Tools AV Free), and also claims that the "PC Tools Data Store" is not installed properly. Not really sure what that even means. Will update later if Driver Verifier comes up with anything.
There is no real consistency in what causes it. The screen will just randomly "mess up" with kaleidoscopic distortion, any sound playing will stutter, and then the system crashes to a BSOD. I have installed no new hardware since I built the computer. The last two programs I installed before this began were Skyrim (Nov. 28th) and CDBurnerXP (Nov. 26th). It's hard for me to see how either of these could be the culprit, since it has never BSODed while they were running.
My only "guess" as to what might cause it is a partitioning issue. When I first installed Win7, it took up the whole disk (1 TB) with one partition. Later, I created separate OS and DATA partitions. However, the Windows disk management utility did not allow me to create the OS partition of the size I wanted, it limited me to something like 400 GB. I used GParted on an Unbuntu live USB to make the partitions I desired (250 GB OS and 750 GB DATA). I think this was a month before and BSODs showed up. If this is the problem, I will just have to re-intall Windows. I may do that anyway since I am going to install a separate hybrid drive for OS and applications. Unfortunately, I have no system restore points from before Dec. 6th.
Memtest86+ (about 6 passes), the Windows memory testing utility, and disk check have found no errors. I have not run Driver Verifier, but I will soon.
System Specs in quote:
System Manufacturer/Model Number: Custom Built
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit (OEM disc)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz
Motherboard: Asus M4A88T-V EVO
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws 8 GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333
Graphics Card(s): Asus ATI Radeon HD6870 1GB DDR5
Sound Card: Integrated
Monitor(s) Displays: Acer AL1912 19"
Screen Resolution: 1280x1024
Hard Drives: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"
PSU: CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX750 V2 750W ATX12V v2.31
"dump.zip" contains the minidump folder, the system health report HTML, and the "Windows_NT6_BSOD_jcgriff2" report. The system health report is kind of messed up; it doesn't seem to know that I have antivirus installed (PC Tools AV Free), and also claims that the "PC Tools Data Store" is not installed properly. Not really sure what that even means. Will update later if Driver Verifier comes up with anything.
My Computer
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Custom Built
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz
- Motherboard
- Asus M4A88T-V EVO
- Memory
- G.SKILL Ripjaws 8 GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333
- Graphics Card(s)
- HIS H285QMC2GD Radeon R9 285 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5
- Sound Card
- Integrated (MB) Sound
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Acer G235HAbd 23'' WideScreen LCD monitor
- Screen Resolution
- 1280x1024
- Hard Drives
- SAMSUNG 850 EVO MZ-75E500B/AM 2.5" 500GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"
Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 3TB (External, USB 3.0)
- PSU
- CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX750 V2 750W ATX12V v2.31
- Case
- Cooler Master HAF 922
- Cooling
- Stock fans & Cooler Master Megaflow 200 Red LED Case Fan