Brand new laptop, Win7 Ult x64, BSOD's!!!

[Casey R]

The BSOD whilst rendering a video is a guarantee now. I have attempted to render a video over 15 times today - each time it BSOD's.

Does this point towards a problem with the graphics card, in your guys opinion?

 

[Jonathan_King]

It does almost sound like that. Do you have another one you can test?

It could also be some other component, such as CPU.

Try this free stress test: Free Software - GIMPS

Prime95 Setup:
- extract the contents of the zip file to a location of your choice
- double click on the executable file
- select "Just stress testing"
- select the "Blend" test. If you've already run MemTest overnight you may want to run the "Small FFTs" test instead.
- "Number of torture test threads to run" should equal the number of CPU's times 2 (if you're using hyperthreading).
The easiest way to figure this out is to go to Task Manager...Performance tab - and see the number of boxes under CPU Usage History
Then run the test for 6 to 24 hours - or until you get errors (whichever comes first).
The Test selection box and the stress.txt file describes what components that the program stresses.

 

[Casey R]

The following minidump is from a BSOD that happened whilst running that stress test.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Try running Memtest on all sticks at the same time.

 

[Casey R]

Memtest is clean.


Another random one just now. I'm gonna start tearing my hair out soon! Just can't seem to shift this problem.

 

[Jonathan_King]

The dump is pointing to memory corruption, so I was looking for possible driver problems.

I notice your JMicron JMB38X Memory Card Reader Drivers are incompatible with Windows 7:

jmcr.sys     Mon May 18 02:19:25 2009

Your Realtek network drivers are old too:

RTL8187B.sys Thu Nov 05 00:51:31 2009

For both of those drivers, I would advise looking on your computer manufacturer's site for updates.

After you update those, enable driver verifier: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/101379-driver-verifier-enable-disable.html

Post the new dumps that are generated.

...Summary of the Dumps:

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Built by: 7600.16539.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100226-1909
Debug session time: Mon Aug  9 10:05:17.846 2010 (UTC - 4:00)
System Uptime: 3 days 23:25:34.762
BugCheck D1, {fffffa80d40e0056, 2, 1, fffff8800166280b}
Probably caused by : memory_corruption
BUGCHECK_STR:  0xD1
PROCESS_NAME:  Skype.exe
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