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BSOD seems to be related to moving system, No Video After.
Hi,
I hope I'm doing everything correctly with this thread, I've tried to ask for this help properly, reading the rules. I didn't install that thing that helps you make a zip but I do have a zipfile of the minidumps to upload.
Windows 7 Pro 64bit (all updates done)
Mobo: Asus P5K-VM
CPU: Xeon E5430
RAM: DDR2 400Mmhz 2X2GB in dual channel (has been in my other system for years without issue)
GPU: ATI/AMD HD 4350
Drives: KINGSTON V300 240GB SSD (O/S, NEW just bought)
Seagate ST3250823AS 7200rpm 250GB
PSU: Corsair CX430M (brand new also by the way)
This system seemed fine until I moved it from where I was building it to another room where it is to stay.
Used different mouse/keyboard when building than when the BSOD's happened.
I tested the system out on the workbench for a couple days after doing a clean install of Win7 64bit on to a Kingston V300 240gb SSD. All went well running for 2 days.
The SSD firmware is up to date according to Kingston SDD Toolbox. SATA is in AHCI.
I ran the system for 24 hours looping an audio program that is fairly CPU intensive and had no issues.
I also tested this system for a few days after I bought it and it was fine. What I changed was the PSU (old one was Antec 350w), installed SSD, changed from 333 to 400 RAM (although, note that the BSOD's were repeatable with all of those original parts swapped back in).
I then moved the case to another room, plugged in different mouse/keyboard (both wired USB), same main monitor I was using to test as well as a second monitor on HDMI port.
Everything was plugged in and it was running. Then I shut it down and pushed it into a shelf. System had no video of either monitor when I rebooted.
Unplugged one of the monitors (TV running on the HDMI). Still nothing.
Reseated GPU. Nothing.
Cleared CMOS.
To keep it brief, I tried lots of things and the problem was intermittent, sometimes happening, sometimes not but always at least once when trying with:
- different GPU,
-different PSU,
- different RAM,
- one stick only of RAM,
-reseated CPU.
This also happened when using onboard video instead of AMD GPU. I reset CMOS and plugged into onboard graphics, same problem, no video.
A few times when I got it working I could recreate the BSOD, it would be fine until MOVING the system back into the shelf while booted, leading me to believe it was a cable being moved that caused BSOD's.
Everytime there was a BSOD, I would have black screens on reboot. Black screens stayed after multiple reboot attempts until I would pull system out from shelf and reconnect monitors. Then I would get sometimes only one monitor back, sometimes both.
I also tried 2 monitors but without using the HDMI port (using DVI and VGA instead of HDMI and VGA).
I have the system running now in it's proper place and I'm unable to recreate the BSOD's by moving the system, or jiggling cables, it seems very stable now. It's running the audio app on a loop (demo mode) for hours now and seems solid.
I have some fairly expensive software with limited number of unlocks to authorize in this new system and I'm afraid to do that at this point until I can be sure this random BSOD problem won't rear it's head at any given time.
It's perhaps worth noting that every BSOD seems to relate to moving the system and that the blue screen would be VERY brief, not long enough to read anything it was saying, just a 1 second duration of blue screen with error text then straight to black screens and monitors would say "no signal".
Can someone please look at my minidumps and tell me what they tell you about the crashes?
I have attached zipfile with all of the dmp files from my minidump folder (should be 8 of them). Some of the dates will be very wrong, as they seemed to have been created after clearing CMOS but before resetting system time.
Please let me know if there's anything else I can provide. You will be forever in my debt if you can help me determine if I should use this system for my DAW software or move on. I bought this system specifically to run Ableton Live 8. I wanted a system with native PCI support to use my PCI audio cards.
Thanks so much for any and all help figuring out what is causing this instability and loss of video!
Sorry post is so long, wanted to be comprehensive and tried to keep it brief!