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BSOD Help
Hello SevenForums, I've been having computer troubles for months now and I have finally decided to seek help. With that said, I hope you don't mind lending your knowledge to a forum newbie.
As the title suggests, I've been getting frequent BSODs (99% of the time it being a STOP 0x0000007F and maybe twice 0x0000050) for some time now and I'm not sure what the problem is. I have quite a few dmp files (including two brand new ones created just today) but I'm not sure how I can upload them for you all to see, when I try to use the built-in "Attach Files" feature on here, it says "You don't have permission to open this file. Contact the file owner or an administrator to obtain permission." despite this being the only account on this computer so it's definitely the root admin account and I shouldn't be getting such an error.
What I can do is give you the information that Event Viewer provides, I'll paste the most recent critical error into notepad and attach it. As you might be able to gather from the text doc, it's a critical, system error that lists the source as "Kernel-Power" and Event ID 41. Honestly, I have no idea what any of this means so if anyone can shed some light as to what the issue might be, that would be great because, looking back, it looks like 100% of the BSODs are like this.
Now for some information on when/how the error actually occurs. It seems to occur when I'm running high-stress programs that use flash or java but there are some flash based things using a fair bit of memory that I can run for hours without any trouble unless I try to watch a movie at the same time or something like that. I think it'd be best to take a look at some of my minidumps to see what it is that's failing so if someone can let me know how to upload a few for public viewing, that would be very helpful.
Originally I thought the problem was RAM (I have two sticks, 1GB each) but I encountered the BSOD with both sticks running individually and ruled out RAM as I thought it was unusual for both sticks to be bad, though I suppose it's possible? After that, I noticed the fan above the heatsink was running very slowly so I thought I might have been having some heat problems there and replaced it but the BSOD continued to occur. For the record, I've completely wiped my hard drive, reformatted and reinstalled Vista and Windows 7 at least three times and still the BSOD persisted, on both operating systems.
Finally, I'll post some computer specs if that helps:
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ (2 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 300 GB (16MB Cache 7200RPM Sata II/300)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
Sound Card: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
I'll stop rambling now. Thanks in advance to anyone that can offer support and I apologize if this thread is in the wrong section.
Edit: I just realized that there's a section for crashes, BSODs and the sort so if a mod or admin could move this thread, it'd be greatly appreciated. Suppose I should have looked a little harder.
Last edited by zxc; 15 May 2010 at 23:16.
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