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Randomlyish-occurring BSOD after installing hardware from another PC.
I got fancy new stuff! Specifically, I got an Aorus 1080 Ti and a Samsung 840 Pro! Huzzah!
I put both in, and my system started crashing at strange times. I'll cut to the chase first and explain what's going on, then what I've already tried.
So, I get 0x000000D1 that points to either storport.sys or IaStorA.sys (or however it's spelled, I can never remember x.x), IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. Gah. That error drives me nuts. Anyway, it happens with no overt pattern /except/ that it tends to happen shortly after I run Unigine Heaven's benchmark.
Wait! Don't start making assumptions yet! It's not an overheating issue! Read my methodology first!
My first instinct was that it has to do with the GPU /somehow/, but indirectly. Maybe I had a SATA wire positioned too close to it and EMI or heat was messing with data transmission, so I worked on fan curves and stuff to try and get it to run cooler to partially eliminate heat as a possible cause, and tied the wires to the hard drive cages and other similar points further away from the GPU. I also unplugged the SSD from the 6G SATA port it was in before and put it in a 3G port, both in case the 6G port (or controller!) was bad and so if there /is/ EMI, it's less likely to actually cause a significant issue. Finally, all my other drives are in the 3G ports, so I figured they've /got/ to be reasonably okay.
So off I go, run Heaven again, crash a few seconds after I quit out. Gah. That's usually a sign that the GPU suddenly not needing as much power is throwing something out of whack somewhere. Tried it again a bit later, seemed stable, but crashed nine hours later. What the heck? Okay, odd. This time when the system booted I left it alone, no Heaven, and had no crashes for 72 continuous hours.
Ran Heaven, no crashes. Closed Heaven. Half an hour later, bang, crashed again.
This pattern maintains consistency; the only time I seem to crash is when I run very particular programs, and it's like it sets a countdown to doom where even if my system is under no stress, at some point within half an hour, it goes down. Heaven is the easiest to access, but other programs do it too. I don't remember which ones /do/ do it, but I can verify that the ones that definitely don't do it are Skype, Steam, 3Dmark (What the heck?), Oculus Home, Elite: Dangerous, MSI Afterburner, Aorus Graphics Engine, Hwinfo64, and many others.
The fact that really specific things, like Heaven /but not 3Dmark/, cause eventual BSODs is what's really confusing me. It's definitely not an over-stress issue, and I'm not even (at least knowingly) accessing data on the SSD when the system goes down.
Some concerns I'd like to raise:
My primary hard drive has had to use some of its reserve blocks, and I know I have some bad sectors. This has been the case for years. It hasn't gotten worse and I believe them to be the result of me literally tripping over my computer while it was turned on at one point, so I don't think it's in an ongoing getting-worse-and-failing state. Besides, literally the day before I installed the new hardware I was running for almost 24 days straight without any issues. This is a 24/7 system, and these BSODs are exceptionally unusual. I think overall it's been running since about 2014. All this said, it's conceivably possible that the drive happened to get significantly worse just as I installed the GPU, so I figured I'd raise the point in case the logs mention thousands of bad sectors.
To be clear, the last number of reserved sectors in use was around 200-290 as of a few months ago. It hasn't changed for years. If you're reading thousands or something, please tell me, that's probably the issue.
I do have up-to-date backups.
The SSD was pulled from another system, and although it hasn't even seen 1TB of writes, it has been sitting outside of any protective casing for a few years. I don't know if that'd cause problems.
My drivers are absolutely outdated; I'm sure on that. I can't figure out how to update them. I tried to install a new version of Intel RST, but it claims my system isn't supported by RST.. Yet I already have another version installed! Weird. It identifies its self as "Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise", offers me almost zero control over anything, and I can't find another "enterprise" version for the life of me on Intel's website. I think this was included with Asus' "AI Suite", which does have an update available for it, but that thing was a pain to install and I'd like to rule out actual failing hardware if possible before I start messing around with trying to update AI Suite.
All drives are plugged into the 3G ports on my motherboard. They're controlled by an Intel controller; I don't know which one.
AHCI is enabled, BIOS is up to date (excluding beta updates), graphics drivers are up to date, OS is up to date (Except for MSRT and KB2952664, because CompatTelRunner was using nearly 100% of my disk and making my computer almost unusable), and all benchmarks run optimally, be them for the GPU or CrystalDiskMark.
So there. Support .zip is attached. Can anyone tell me if this looks like a hardware or a driver issue, and if driver, which sites to go to to try and get the latest stuff? Asus' things are all from 2014-2015. Any help is appreciated!
EDIT: I forgot to mention, Heaven doesn't have to be currently running for me to crash, I just have had to run it at any point before last booting. I can start it up, run it for ten seconds, close it, and I'll crash within half an hour.
Last edited by Nofew; 02 Dec 2017 at 20:27.
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