Random hangs/restarts, with 1 BSOD in safe mode after clean install

Arc · 16 Aug 2015

So I found a couple of free driver updaters (driver booster and slimdrivers) and it said the wireless adapter driver, audio controller driver, nvidia nforce serial ata controllers, and a pci management driver had newer updates. Installed all the new updates, (found it installed realtek wireless drivers over the dlink wireless drivers), restarted and everything seem stable.

You have screwed your computer up in your own hands. Uninstall them right now!

And, you were required to uninstall ZoneAlarm but you disabled it.

Speccy showing display glitches means there is enough reason to concentrate on the hardware.

Disable driver verifier. There is no legitimate ground for running it at this stage, and it was not suggested.

Personally I am unable to help when the offered suggestions are not taken and abrupt steps are taken which are enough to damage it more. But I will wait for one more time to see whether you are keeping your actions within suggestions.

After doing the aforesaid changes, report us for any further problem, and dont do anything that is not suggested.

CyCoSys · 16 Aug 2015

ok, ok...

I was just trying to find the latest drivers, I apologise. You said to find the latest driver for the broadcom controller, which I was unable to find, hence which was why I tried a driver updater.
Failing to find a true windows 7 driver, I thought I would replace it with a wireless adapter. Ergo the wireless driver replacement.

Zone alarm uninstalled, other drivers uninstalled alright... Update with speccy soon.

CyCoSys · 16 Aug 2015

Ok I got BSOD, straight after uninstalling the drivers and restarting...I'm guessing this is not good.

CyCoSys · 16 Aug 2015

Speccy profile.

http://speccy.piriform.com/results/a...yLLWUWLdIdtJ0M

Laith · 16 Aug 2015

Hmm, first of all don't run these kinda programs. They are fake. Second run Driver Sweeper to remove your old networking driver. Drivers - Clean Left over Files after Uninstalling

Is your GPU overheating?

EDIT: The CPU is overheating a little, can you try another cooler on it?

EDIT 2: Your newest log showed an 0x101. Have you overclocked, because 0x101 is a overclock related issue. I think you might have as the CPU is heating up. Try to reset the BIOS settings.

Arc · 16 Aug 2015

Laith said:

EDIT 2: Your newest log showed an 0x101. Have you overclocked, because 0x101 is a overclock related issue. I think you might have as the CPU is heating up. Try to reset the BIOS settings.

I will agree that it (CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT, BugCheck 101) is a hardware related issue, in most of the cases.

Stress test the CPU.

Hardware - Stress Test With Prime95

It saves the result as a .txt file in the prime95's folder. Upload the file for us.

Stress test the Graphics Card using Furmark.

Video Card - Stress Test with Furmark

Take a screenshot of the furmark window before closing it. Upload the screenshot for us. Also let us know if you have experienced any crash/BSOD and/or artifacts during the test.

Test your RAM modules for possible errors.

How to Test and Diagnose RAM Issues with Memtest86+

Run memtest86+ for at least 8 consecutive passes.

If it start showing errors/red lines, stop testing. A single error is enough to determine that something is going bad there. Take a camera snap of the memtest86+ screen before closing the program and let us see it.

Finally, go to Product Support | Dell US and get the necessary drivers from this page .... there is no BIOS update available there.

CyCoSys · 18 Aug 2015

ok posting results so far.

note; The CPU has never been OC'd.

Memtest86+ another 8 consecutive passes with no fail. Probably done over 26 passes in total, all passed.

While I was trying to run the furmark test, I had several hangs/restarts, but persisted and had 4 BSOD's in the process, all the same error (CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT, BugCheck 101, I attached the last BSOD of this error). As I was unable to run this test longer than 12 minutes, so considering the CPU errors, I replaced the AMD6000+ CPU with the original AMD 3600+.

Straight away I was able to run furmark for an hour with no problems. I was able to browse, email and other work for 4 hours straight with no hangs or restarts, the longest time without this problem in the last month. So then I tried youtube, and video seems fine, but now I have very bad audio stuttering. (Tried Dell and AMD drivers)

So I then tried to run the Prime95 test with this CPU (AMD3600+), and then I got this last BSOD. Seeing that it said driver verifier had interrupted the error, I rechecked its settings, and it is definitely still disabled. Not sure what this all means.

After running it overnight without a single hang/restart, I assume that fault lies within the CPU (AMD6000+), but not sure whether there still lies some sort of other system instability.

CyCoSys · 18 Aug 2015

Latest BSOD while watching youtube (audio still has a small stutter)

CyCoSys · 19 Aug 2015

Damn it...after 2.5 days of no hangs, I just had my first hang with the original CPU watching youtube. Any idea about the last 2 BSOD's?

Laith · 19 Aug 2015

Have you OC:ed the GPU? This might be a failing CPU slot.. Check with another motherboard and see if that works.