Frequest BSOD/Crashing many without any error/dump files

Stop ox124 and aged computer ....

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BiosVersion = 6.00 PG
BiosReleaseDate = 01/22/2008
BaseBoardManufacturer = http://www.abit.com.tw/
BaseBoardProduct = IP35P   (Intel P35+ICH9)

If there is any possible BIOS update, get it.

Check if the Power Supply Unit (PSU) supplying adequate power to the computer or not.
eXtreme Power Supply Calculator
Also let us know the wattage of the PSU.

Is the computer hot? Report us the heat of the computer after a couple of hours of your normal usage. Upload a screenshot of the summery tab of Speccy. Alternatively, you can publish a Speccy snapshot too: Speccy - Publish Snapshot of your System Specs .

Are you overclocking? As you are getting BSODs, you should stop overclocking and run all the hardware components like CPU, GPU and RAM to their default settings.

Test your RAM modules for possible errors.
How to Test and Diagnose RAM Issues with Memtest86+
Run memtest for at least 8 passes, preferably overnight.

If it start showing errors/red lines, stop testing. A single error is enough to determine that something is going bad there.

Stress test the Graphics Card using Furmark.
Video Card - Stress Test with Furmark

Stress test the CPU.
Hardware - Stress Test With Prime95

Let us know the results.
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Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information.

BugCheck 124, {0, fffffa8004ffe028, b2000040, 800}

Probably caused by : GenuineIntel

Followup: MachineOwner
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Hi Arc,

1.

If there is any possible BIOS update, get it.

I tried to update my BIOS but it 'haven't worked for me without a Floppy drive. I will get my friend's USB Floppy drive and then try. The new version is released in April 2008 so that's old too, don't know if that would make any difference but will still try to do.
Update-
BIOS is update with the latest available bin (oct 2008).

2.

Check if the Power Supply Unit (PSU) supplying adequate power to the computer or not.
eXtreme Power Supply Calculator
Also let us know the wattage of the PSU.

Below is the screenshot of the website with my config and power requirements.


I have a Cooler Master GX 650W PSU

3.

Is the computer hot? Report us the heat of the computer after a couple of hours of your normal usage. Upload a screenshot of the summery tab of Speccy. Alternatively, you can publish a Speccy snapshot too: Speccy - Publish Snapshot of your System Specs .

Here is the link to Speccy's screenshot of my temperature after a while of normal usage. I will check during stress test and see if there are any big numbers.

4.

Are you overclocking? As you are getting BSODs, you should stop overclocking and run all the hardware components like CPU, GPU and RAM to their default settings.

I am not Overclocking and everything is running at stock speed.

5.

Test your RAM modules for possible errors.
How to Test and Diagnose RAM Issues with Memtest86+
Run memtest for at least 8 passes, preferably overnight.

Have done Memtest86+ tests for 5 passes with no errors. Will run it again soon for 8 passes as suggested and also will check with HCI Memtest and report back on that.

Update-
Ran HCI for some time and no errors


6.

Stress test the Graphics Card using Furmark.
Video Card - Stress Test with Furmark

Have installed and will run soon and come back with results

Update-
Ran the stress test for some time and got the below Screenshot when the temp was not increasing.
I am not sure if I saw an artifact but I did some white garbled lines for a second or so every now and then during the test on the animation the software was playing and also the FPS didn't go above 14FPS. is this normal??



7.

Stress test the CPU.
Hardware - Stress Test With Prime95

Have Downloaded and will come back with results soon.

Update-
Did it for 2 hours and no error message came up. Screenshot below.




8. I saw the below error in Speedfan SMART section. Is this of any concern?



Thanks for your reply.

Please now help me with the situation. I would like to do some test with the HDD to see if they are the culprit. What's a good HDD stress software?
Also wanted to mention that the PC did not crash while any of the tests but when everything finished and I opened sevenforums.com on firefox and started typing this reply it crashed with a BSOD. i have attached the 2 new BSODs (there were many crashes but no BSODs/minidump) i faced since posting my problem here.
Please help.

It would be better if you have supplied a full screen image of furmark screen. As far it is visible, it shows clear artifacts.



And such a GPU can cause this type of BSOD.
Test the situation without the GPU; either using another one, or using the onboard graphics.

Here is what is called no artifacts in the image below:

Attachment 298452

It is display artifacts, mate

Wish you a good luck with the old Nvidia Geforce 8600GT.

You can see the differences of the furmark test images. Decision is not really on me.

Let us know the result with the other GPU.

Disable Hardware Acceleration. Open a video in YouTube. When it is started, right click on the screen and choose "settings"


In the resulting window, uncheck the option for hardware acceleration, and then close the window.


Also, see these tutorials:

• Chrome GPU Hardware Acceleration - Turn On or Off
• Firefox GPU Hardware Acceleration - Turn On or Off
• Internet Explorer GPU Hardware Acceleration - Turn On or Off

If the GPU is not really corrupt, these actions will stop a display crash while in a browser.