Varied BSODs, Drivers/Memory

Hey everybody.

So I've had my first new build for over about a month now, and so far, I'm fairly happy along the lines of performance. However, I've been getting blue screens every day, about anywhere from 1 to 3 or 4 times a day. Most times while running just Chrome, others, and less often, while gaming.

Now, I'm typically getting errors like PFN_LIST_CORRUPT and MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, but I'm getting some other odd ones, as you can see if you take a gander at my dumps.

So from what I've researched, these issues are typically coming from either faulty memory or bad drivers. So here's what I've done so far:

• Ran Memtest86+ for about 9 passes overnight, with both sticks of ram in. No errors detected, moved on.
• Ran Driver Verifier. Located two bad drivers: iomap64.sys, an Asus software-related driver that frankly shouldn't have been there, and a Nvidia driver. Deleted the former, ran a clean install of the most recent Nvidia drivers using their installer.
• Removed AVG Antivirus with Revo Uninstaller. Replaced with Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes.

And yet, I'm still getting BSODs.

Through my mostly uninformed excursions into the land of Windows Debugger, a few words that seem like red flags to me are VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT and memory_corruption. I can kind of guess what these might mean, but I'm not really going anywhere fast.

Any help at all is appreciated! Following the guide, my dumps/etc. are available below, as requested in the guidelines thread. You can see my specs on my profile.

Thanks!

(Oh, and sorry for any issues in this post. I'll correct anything that needs to be changed.)

AutSamurai said:

So from what I've researched, these issues are typically coming from either faulty memory or bad drivers. So here's what I've done so far:

• Ran Memtest86+ for about 9 passes overnight, with both sticks of ram in. No errors detected, moved on.
• Ran Driver Verifier. Located two bad drivers: iomap64.sys, an Asus software-related driver that frankly shouldn't have been there, and a Nvidia driver. Deleted the former, ran a clean install of the most recent Nvidia drivers using their installer.
• Removed AVG Antivirus with Revo Uninstaller. Replaced with Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes.

And yet, I'm still getting BSODs.

Depending on your statement, you have done all possible tasks that can be done to debug your bugchecks. But the interesting fact is, if the BSODs point to memory with various different bugchecks, memtest returns no negative report, and driver verifier is catching different drivers as failing, the issue is a bad one.

Still, have two more tests .....

1. Stress test the CPU.
Hardware - Stress Test With Prime95

2. Get a spare PSU (from friends or family) and apply it there. See if anything changes or not.

If sill nothing is found, and the situation is the same, we are at a loss, and have to blame the motherboard.

If you can, you may test the PSU; but I dont have any more idea than what is written in

• PSU - Test DC Output Voltage
• PSU - Jump Start

Before trying, please read the cautions.

   Warning

This could damage your PSU if done incorrectly, and poses an electrical shock risk. Always take the appropriate cautions when working with electrical parts. The PSU EVEN WHEN TURNED OFF has enough power to SEVERELY INJURE OR KILL YOU

The BSOD is not verifier enabled, apparently.

Code:

Verify Flags Level 0x00000000

  STANDARD FLAGS:
    [X] (0x00000000) Automatic Checks
    [ ] (0x00000001) Special pool
    [ ] (0x00000002) Force IRQL checking
    [ ] (0x00000008) Pool tracking
    [ ] (0x00000010) I/O verification
    [ ] (0x00000020) Deadlock detection
    [ ] (0x00000080) DMA checking
    [ ] (0x00000100) Security checks
    [ ] (0x00000800) Miscellaneous checks

  ADDITIONAL FLAGS:
    [ ] (0x00000004) Randomized low resources simulation
    [ ] (0x00000200) Force pending I/O requests
    [ ] (0x00000400) IRP logging

    [X] Indicates flag is enabled


Summary of All Verifier Statistics

  RaiseIrqls           0x0
  AcquireSpinLocks     0x0
  Synch Executions     0x0
  Trims                0x0

  Pool Allocations Attempted             0x0
  Pool Allocations Succeeded             0x0
  Pool Allocations Succeeded SpecialPool 0x0
  Pool Allocations With NO TAG           0x0
  Pool Allocations Failed                0x0

  Current paged pool allocations         0x0 for 00000000 bytes
  Peak paged pool allocations            0x0 for 00000000 bytes
  Current nonpaged pool allocations      0x0 for 00000000 bytes
  Peak nonpaged pool allocations         0x0 for 00000000 bytes

But it points out to dxgmms1.sys, that means some issue with the display driver. And unfortunately I dont know any driver version that works good with GTX 760. You may try the drivers on a trial and error basis:

• 320.49 WHQL
• 327.23 WHQL
• 331.58 WHWL
• 331.65 WHQL
• 331.82 WHQL

Get them from Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers

Do a clean install on all of them. Uninstall the previously installed driver first.
Uninstall All nvidia items in Control Panel > Programs and features

• 
  
  • 3D Vision Control Driver
  • 3D Vision Driver
  • Graphics Driver
  • HD Audio Driver
  • PhysX
  • nvidia Update
  
  (Are you using nvidia chipset drivers? If so, dont uninstall anything other than those are listed).
• Now follow Drivers - Clean Left over Files after Uninstalling
• Download the target WHQL. While installing, Select Custom (Advanced) install. In the next page, follow this settings:
  
  

Lengthy process, but the only stable version of nvidia is 314.22 lately, which does not support 700 series GPU.

You have to switch between the driver, an an anticipation that some of them will work good with your GPU.