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Persistent BSOD's at desktop
Is Windows 7 . . .
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
- It is a Windows 7 upgrade. I upgraded from XP, thus its a fresh Windows 7 install because you have to format your drive in order to install Windows 7 over windows XP.
- Its my own copy of Windows 7 because I built the PC myself.
- Was built last year.
- I've always had problems with the ASUS 5870 drivers. I've been able to fix some symptoms like artifacts at desktop, but there still seems to be some underlying problems here. Its been suggested that I flash the 5870 BIOS to something else and that might fix it, but I'll reserve final judgement until you guys generously take a peek at these dumps.
All of these DMPs are from a fresh windows install, literally installed it 1/9/11 after I felt I wanted to re-optimize my SSD.
The ASUS 5870 has a power saving feature that has variable clock speeds and voltages depending on the activity on the GPU. Its a known problem that on some 5870 cards that there are problems with the idle clocks going to low for the system to handle it. Symptoms are usually just artifacting at desktop, this is fixable with modifying a Profile's clock settings and voltages and those symptoms are not cropping up.
All of my crashes happen at desktop or if a game is windowed, I can't recall ever crashing while at full screen gaming.
Crashing typically happen during installing something, either programs or windows updates or just at random, like if I mouse over a video and right as the drop down information begins to appear, the computer will crash. Crashes also happen quite frequently with this latest install when bringing the computer back from sleep mode or when the screen greys out when asking for administrative abilities to open a program. They are all locale 1033.
Also, Slightly related to all of this... Recently I took out some parts to my computer to dust them (don't worry, these BSOD's were happening before I did this, so I don't think I messed anything up here) and then when I put them back in, my BIOS refused to boot my harddrives. At the time I had Windows 7 Installed on 2 different harddrives, a SSD which I had recently got, and then an older state of Windows 7 on my older drive. The BIOS could detect both drives and it would list them under the SATA connections, but it wouldn't list them under boot options, even under various storage configuration settings. This is why I reinstalled Windows 7 yesterday, but I was curious if I could still somehow find a way to boot from the other drive. All the information is still on the harddrive, I can access all the files and such but BIOS just refuses to see it as a bootable drive, I even did a windows boot repair through the install CD on both drives an nothing came of it. Either way, this isn't my main concern, though if you have spare time, I'm curious as to how this could happen and how to possibly fix it
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