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Seemingly Random BSODs: EVENT ID 41 TASK CATEGORY 63 BugcheckCode 26
Desktop system Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad
MOBO: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO LGA 1155 Intel Z68 w/UEFI BIOS
Storage1: Mushkin Enhanced Chronos Deluxe MKNSSDCR120GB-DX 2.5" 120GB SSD (SATA III)
Storage2: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB (SATA III)
OPMED: LG Black Super Multi SATA WH12LS30
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B
GPU: MSI N580GTX Lightning Xtreme Edition GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 3072MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP
PSU: CORSAIR Professional Series Gold AX850 (CMPSU-850AX) 850W ATX12V v2.31 / EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS GOLD
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
Description of observations and symptoms:
As evident in the attached information, the system crashes at apparently random instances without any particular software or user trigger. This system stays on 24/7 without any sleep mode atm (initially it was enabled and I turned it off to see if bsods are related to it or not). According to my observation, this bsod happens mainly after a long period of user-inactivity, while some windows and applications such as various browsers and chat clients are left open. the very last one (ref'd in title) seems different than the other ones in its bugcheck info. I tried to launch Skype and it kept giving me an error asking to find solution online or close the porgram. Tried that over maybe 2 minutes for a few times with same results and bam, hard disk activity went up, and BSOD!
Now, mind you, this has happened similarly a few times before, and each time, swapping around the HDD & SDD connections on the mobo (within the provided 4 SATA6gb/s ports) seems to fix the problem. But, If i just restart from bsod without swapping those sataIII connections, the system will not recognize a boot device while it does recognize one of the disks.
I have not sadly been able to document my own work around of port swaps as each time this happened I was in a rush and did not have time to record all of that and just wanted to get it back to work. i know thats my mistake.
So, I have no suspect. No real clue as to what could be causing this and have exhausted google results without success. this keeps happening at random intervals and It is causing grave anxiety for me for loss of various important data (yeah, i game on this pc, no OC, yet i also have a whole bunch of my work and personal data on it as well, its not "just" a gaming pc at all).
all drivers and firmwares on this computer are up to date as of august 2011. system was purchased brand new in aug 2011 and I verified the driver updates after deploying windows.
Also, on one of these prior bsod instances, it happened immediately after I attempted to set the pagefile location to the hdd to open up 15gb on the ssd (which never even happened as it crashed on that click in the related settings window) I believe that was the 2nd bsod, not sure.
Any and all help is appreciated. I have also attached a few screen shots and posted a brief youtube video of what I consider weird and unwarranted constant activity of HDD LED on the case. now, I have never owned an SSD before and am not sure if it relates to that or not. But I'm sure as hell with indexing off and minimal apps running, this very diciplined blinking is not okay for a hard drive. I can't even tell if this LED is related to the hdd or the ssd. nonetheless ssd is boot device and when it does work, it works flawlessly and super fast.
NOTE: I attempted to do this whole post after the last bsod prior to the one ref'd in the sbj line above, but I could not complete it and eventually i let it slide. Thus I have included a folder which I believe was created by the forum-provided tool as well along with the named folder and html file for the latest instance. maybe it helps. maybe it wont. dont hate me for it (:
NOTE: Please pay attention to the prior BSOD events, they all have a different bugcheck code vs. this very last one (9.28.2011)
Last edited by joebayer; 29 Sep 2011 at 18:04.