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Various Blue Screens of Death after New Hardware Installation
Hi all,
I recently installed some new hardware on my computer after my old EVGA 8800GT graphics card died. I installed a new motherboard, graphics card, processor, and RAM Complete specs are in my profile, but the quick and dirty:
MB: Asus P8Z77M-Pro w/ i5 @ 3.4GHz
GC: EVGA GTX650 2GB SC
RAM: 2x4GB Kingston Genesis HyperX DDR3
Included in the attached zip are four dump files. The first two are basically the same error (driver_power_state_failure, STOP: 0x0000009f) and are unrelated (they occurred in March of this year, and haven't happened since! I can't remember what that was about, but I fixed it!)
The latter two are the ones giving me grief now, and they are both different!
They both occurred after I installed the new hardware and the computer has been running fine otherwise. Everything boots up fast, I can run Word and Chrome and other light software just happily. However, these errors BOTH occurred while playing Skyrim (one on the highest possible graphics settings, the other on a step down).
The first error is STOP: 0x0000009c error, MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION, seeming to be caused by hal.dll
The second error is STOP: 0x00000050, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, seeming to be caused by ntoskrnl.exe
I don't understand what could be causing these two different BSODs, both while playing the same system-intensive game. I haven't tried any other games to date to see if they also result in the same error (but watching a BluRay rip on fullscreen at 1920x1200 runs just fine).
The full SevenForums utility dump is attached, and my complete system information is in my profile. If I can provide any other information that you guys might need to help me track down this problem just let me know!
Thanks for your help!
-Philip
Last edited by Codplay; 14 Oct 2012 at 13:43. Reason: Adding the fact that system info is in my profile