My Windows 7 64 Bit crashes randomly. I say randomly, its mostly on start up when the PC is cold. Once its up and running, its fine and can run all day without crashing. I even tried rebooting and rebooting to see if it would crash when warm but it doesn't !
I have been working with Microsoft Tech Support for nearly a week now disabling all thrid party drivers etc. but I suspect this is a HW problem somewhere. Is it possible to be temperature related ? Not suggesting any cooling problems just seems worse when PC is cold.
I am also concernced having read threads in the this forum as many of the BSOD posts relate to AMD Phenom II processors and a few to Gigabyte MBs. I have updated to the latest F6 MB BIOS today and I still have crashes on start up.
The STOP errors vary but most are Page Fault in non paged area and PFN List corrupt errors.
This has been going on for a few weeks now. Ive done start up repairs, rebuilt from the CD's, CHKDSK, Memory tests etc etc and haven't found anything !
The MB, Processor, memory & PSU are new. Both SATA drives have been used in a previous system although the system with the 500GB Western Digital drive did have occasional crashes under XP. Windows 7 was a clean install and the system has been run on the 200GB Maxtor with the WD unplugged and still crashes.
Any suggestions ?
Should have said - updated BIOS today because System also sometimes hangs on boot I think when detecting SATA drives. Have also updaed AMD SATA Driver.
System Manufacturer/Model Number
Home Build OS
Windows 7 64 Bit CPU
AMD Phenom II x2 550 3.1 Ghz Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H Memory
G-Skill 4GB Ripjaws DDR3 PC12800-1600Mhz Cas7 Kit (2 x "GB) Graphics Card(s)
On Board ATI Radeon HD 4200 Sound Card
On Board Realtek HD Audio Monitor(s) Displays
GNR Screen Resolution
N/A Hard Drives
Western Digital Caviar 500GB SATA II 32MB Cache
Maxtor L200M0 200GB Sata II Drive PSU
Win Power PSU 500W 20 + 24 pin ATX12V 12cm fan SATA
I have been working with Microsoft Tech Support for nearly a week now disabling all thrid party drivers etc. but I suspect this is a HW problem somewhere. Is it possible to be temperature related ? Not suggesting any cooling problems just seems worse when PC is cold.
I am also concernced having read threads in the this forum as many of the BSOD posts relate to AMD Phenom II processors and a few to Gigabyte MBs. I have updated to the latest F6 MB BIOS today and I still have crashes on start up.
The STOP errors vary but most are Page Fault in non paged area and PFN List corrupt errors.
This has been going on for a few weeks now. Ive done start up repairs, rebuilt from the CD's, CHKDSK, Memory tests etc etc and haven't found anything !
The MB, Processor, memory & PSU are new. Both SATA drives have been used in a previous system although the system with the 500GB Western Digital drive did have occasional crashes under XP. Windows 7 was a clean install and the system has been run on the 200GB Maxtor with the WD unplugged and still crashes.
Any suggestions ?
Should have said - updated BIOS today because System also sometimes hangs on boot I think when detecting SATA drives. Have also updaed AMD SATA Driver.
System Manufacturer/Model Number
Home Build OS
Windows 7 64 Bit CPU
AMD Phenom II x2 550 3.1 Ghz Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H Memory
G-Skill 4GB Ripjaws DDR3 PC12800-1600Mhz Cas7 Kit (2 x "GB) Graphics Card(s)
On Board ATI Radeon HD 4200 Sound Card
On Board Realtek HD Audio Monitor(s) Displays
GNR Screen Resolution
N/A Hard Drives
Western Digital Caviar 500GB SATA II 32MB Cache Maxtor L200M0 200GB Sata II Drive PSU
Win Power PSU 500W 20 + 24 pin ATX12V 12cm fan SATA
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My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 64 BitAMD Phenom II x2 550 3.1 GhzG-Skill 4GB Ripjaws DDR3 PC12800-1600Mhz Cas7...On Board ATI Radeon HD 4200
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Home Build
- OS
- Windows 7 64 Bit
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II x2 550 3.1 Ghz
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H
- Memory
- G-Skill 4GB Ripjaws DDR3 PC12800-1600Mhz Cas7 Kit (2 x "GB)
- Graphics Card(s)
- On Board ATI Radeon HD 4200
- Sound Card
- On Board Realtek HD Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- GNR
- Hard Drives
- Western Digital Caviar 500GB SATA II 32MB Cache
Maxtor L200M0 200GB Sata II Drive
- PSU
- Win Power PSU 500W 20 + 24 pin ATX12V 12cm fan SATA
- Cooling
- Case & CPU Fan
- Mouse
- Logitech USB Mouse
- Internet Speed
- 1.5 Mbps !