BSOD 116 when attempting to play games

Well, recently I just got a new power supply as an RMA for my last one that popped a cap and ruined by old motherboards southbridge so it prompted me to upgrade to my current 2500k setup. I did manage to keep everything and not have to wipe with the new hardware which was just cpu, mobo, and ram.

It's been a great setup until recently when I want to play games I would randomly get a black screen and about a minute later a reboot, upon inspection with bluescreenview I noticed it was a 116 error. At first I thought it was a Lucidlogix Virtu driver issue so I disabled that and swapped the cable to my gpu, no dice same problem and same error. Then, I figured it was conflicting drivers left over that I missed so I'm now on a fresh install and I'm getting the same issue. I can even duplicate it running OCCT's power supply test, it takes under 30 seconds.

Additional info that may or may not help/be needed: CPU overclock does not make a difference, GPUs, RAM, and iGPU have never been overclocked.

Thanks for any help, it's getting annoying running games on the Intel HD3000.

"It's not a true crash, in the sense that the bluescreen was initiated only because the combination of video driver and video hardware was being unresponsive, and not because of any synchronous processing exception".

Since Vista, the "Timeout Detection and Recovery" (TDR) components of the OS video subsystem have been capable of doing some truly impressive things to try to recover from issues which would have caused earlier OSs like XP to crash.

As a last resort, the TDR subsystem sends the video driver a "please restart yourself now!" command and waits a few seconds.

If there's no response, the OS concludes that the video driver/hardware combo has truly collapsed in a heap, and it fires off that stop 0x116 BSOD.

If playing with video driver versions hasn't helped, make sure the box is not overheating.

Try removing a side panel and aiming a big mains fan straight at the motherboard and GPU.

Run it like that for a few hours or days - long enough to ascertain whether cooler temperatures make a difference.

If so, it might be as simple as dust buildup and subsequently inadequate cooling.

I would download cpu-z and gpu-z (both free) and keep an eye on the video temps

STOP 0x116: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR troubleshooting

I knew I forgot to mention a couple things. Stress testing with FurMark 1.9.2 I had no issues in a 22hr run and my GPUs level off around 70c. Prime95 gives no issues either in a 31hr run don't remember temps exactly but it was around 60c. It only seems to happen when I stress both the CPU and GPUs at the same time. That's why I'm leaning towards a faulty PSU Antec sent me as a replacement?

Well, I've got an update. I got another BSOD and restart tonight and now it sits at the windows 7 loading screen for quite a while and takes it's sweet time logging on, it's down at about 800x600 resolution, and when I can finally do anything it takes about 5 minutes and it crashes. Any ideas?

SFC /SCANNOW : Run in Command Prompt at Boot up to three times with a restart in between each. Post back if it continues to show errors after a fourth run or if the first run comes back with no integrity violations. Use OPTION THREE of SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker to provide us with the sfcdetails.txt file if errors occur.

NOTE: your drive may not be C: and could be D:, E:, F:, or even G:. It will not be X:. To determine your drive, use the following commands in a command prompt to find the Windows directory:

C:
dir
D:
dir
E:
dir
F:
dir
G:
dir

etc. until you find the Windows directory.

I've ran SFC multiple times from in windows and from my HBCD usb drive. Each time it comes back clean.

Another update, it now won't even make it to the logon screen before it reboots. I'm at a toss up between some massively nasty virus/malware that found it's way in even on a clean install, which could be possible from one of my storage drives, or my psu is really on its way out.

No, I have not tried that only because my reasoning is that if it does fix the problem it's only because it's less stress on the psu and eventually I do plan on upgrading to either 6 or 7 series crossfire here soon which are quite a bit more power hungry than those current 4850s.

There is no "Fail Safe" option, but I did try the "Optimized" equivalent, and no XMP option but I did notice when I first built this one it was overvolting my RAM from the very first power on but I set it down to the spec'd 1.35, well 1.349 was the closest my mobo would get.

I didn't think Sandy Bridge had an NB anymore, thought it was all QPI and such? I have contemplated a dying GPU since one is as old as the original build two mobos before this current one, then I got a new mobo for xfire, now this one.

Also, Antec's warranty replacements are refurb parts that's the only reason I was thinking that it might be going out as well because I did have a TPQ-1000 that was bought brand new for the xfire setup and has lasted me a good 3+ years before it popped a cap.

I also noticed today when I got home from school that "MiniXP" from my HBCD usb drive froze during a chkdsk scan that I started this morning. Alas, no error code though because it all runs in RAM. And, before it's asked the RAM checked fine with a 9 1/2 pass run of memtest86+ overnight already.