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BSOD while playing, ntoskrnl.exe
Hello all.
I'm turnining to you guys because I'm totally defeated and have no clue how to solve my errors.
It began with problems regarding Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard center. It started complaining about not being correctly installed all of a sudden, so removed it, did a CCleaner clean, reinstalled and it seemed to be working fine. However, ccleaner corrupted the registry creating all sorts of problems, one being windows claiming i lost authenticity . I did a fresh install, riddled with problems, but in the end it worked out. I had some problems installning drivers with crashes occuring pretty often. I think this relates to windows being installed with IDE drivbers but mobo was set to AHCI at the time. I got some drivers in, and tried playing battlefield 3 but got a blue screen pointing to ntoskrnl.exe.
What i've done so far to try and correct this:
1 Downclocking processor
2 Downclocking ram
2 Update every driver I could find. This includes motherboard BIOS, graphics drivers, .NET Frameworks, mouse and keyboard drivers, headset drivers, soundcard drivers
3 Run integrity checks on HDDs, primarily the boot one.
4 Malwarebytes scans
5 Avast scan (now uninstalled)
6 Microsoft Security Essentials scan
7 Swapping RAMs. I found a problem with one stick so now im running another set of rams in. 2 sets, 4 sticks in total
8 Memtest86+, ran every stick for about 4hrs
9 Upgrade windows ( I.e install a new copy of windows over windows)
10 Run driver verifier (in progress now, hoping to isolate some problem)
11. sfc/scannow commands
12. chkdisk
Needless to say, none of them seem to have worked. Im beginning to think my computer is defunct (or worse, my graphics card is totally burnt)
Every crash relates to ntoskrnl.exe in some way, and sometimes there was another driver name in bluescreenview but it all points to ntoskrnl when viewing it in WinDbg.
It most often happens in battlefield3, and can vary from twice in a game (10 minutes) to not at all to once in a day.
I have attached the latest minidump file, however I had more files but they're removed now. Will attach more as time goes. This one was while playing Skyrim .
Age of computer : < 1 year.
Please, Someone, help me!
EDIT: I don't think I have updated my sata controller, I dont know what to look for. My mobo is a Z68 Extreme3 Gen3. SSDs are (boot) Samsung 830 128GB, and Intel 520 128GB
Last edited by catch22; 26 Nov 2012 at 15:13. Reason: extra info