BSOD again

[lightice]

There are no new dump files, I checked. Only 3, which are the same exact ones.

Why did the computer lockup? :s

 

[cybercore]

How did it lockup, you can't boot, can't login?

 

[lightice]

It booted up normally.
Entered windows.

I went to the washroom.

Came back, and it just froze after booting into windows.
Mouse won't respond, no keystroke response.

 

[CarlTR6]

That maybe caused by the video card/driver. I went through that with my video card before I got the right driver.

 

[lightice]

Currently, I installed the latest driver from the nvidia website.

At the moment, the computer is acting worst.

I can't even boot to windows. It freezes at the point where the coloured dots are supposed to become the windows logo.

After a few minutes at this state, the computer screen turns black, and the CPU gives out multiple beeping non stop.

I have run memtest86 overnight with no issues.

Now, I tried to restart the computer and it freezes again.

After that, I rebooted and it refuses to show post.
Fans etc all spinning

I got it to enter bios, but I tried to save settings and it just hung.
Should I reflash bios?

Update 1: I reflashed to an earlier rom, version 2002.
Now i managed to repair windows, it is repairing at the moment.
I have entered windows, waiting for it to load.
Load seems successful
Checking if there are new dump files available
There are no new dump files apart from the 3 we have already analysed and tackled.
I have however, added in a fresh zip file and perfmon report if it is of any use.

 

[cybercore]

I got it to enter bios, but I tried to save settings and it just hung.
Should I reflash bios?

Could be bios, could be ram, could be the video card. Flashing bios (with the latest) would be good, but what if it freezes during the process?

1. Remove the videocard and try to boot without it. I reckon I also had random restarts before and after entering windows when my old GF6600 bit the dust a couple years ago.

2. Isolate and test the ram sticks separately and in different slots. I know it's a PITA doing that, but you need to be sure it's not the RAM.

 

[lightice]

I flashed the bios with 1 version earlier. It was on the latest.

I will try the RAM tomorrow.

As for the video card, I did the video card stress test and let it run, no observed artifacts at all.
I don't have built in GFX though.

Also, now I managed to enter windows after a bio flash to 1 version earlier.
I also did a windows startup repair ( windows requested this )

 

[cybercore]

Fingures crossed, keep us updated.

 

[lightice]

Fingures crossed, keep us updated.

Can there be a problem with the registry?
And if so, is there any way I can deal with it?

 

[cybercore]

Fingures crossed, keep us updated.

Can there be a problem with the registry?
And if so, is there any way I can deal with it?

You should know better if there's a problem with the registry, if you actually did something to get it messed up.

Run memtest overnight.

 

[lightice]

I didn't do anything to the registry, I always do uninstalls correctly and don't manually mess with the registry.

Well, I just got a BSOD again.

When I can get the computer to startup, I'll post the necessary files.

And again I can't get past post. Nothing shows after I try to reboot.

I got BSOD again. This was when I was trying to get my LAN to connect so I could post the dmp file.

 

[lightice]

Well, my LAN port somehow stopped working, I tried to "repair" and it gave me BSOD. So I'm reinstalling the driver.
Okay, this is weird, I tried reinstalling the driver and configuring the IP address, but the adaptor doesn't recognise the network. It keeps giving me 'unidentified network' and won't connect me even though I entered the correct IP/subnet values.

I can't get my network adaptor on the P5Q-pro to work now, it just gives me 'unidentified network'.
Here are the latests dmp files.
Only those dated 10/10/2010 are the recent ones,2 of them.

 

[Pirl]

Have you tried using only two sticks of RAM?

I did a bit of searching in relation to my old blue screens, and it seems that some of the P5Q boards (including the P5Q and the P5Q Pro) can exhibit odd behaviour with 4 sticks of RAM. One symptom that someone posted about was the onboard LAN 'disappearing', and there are a lot of "random" blue screen reports.

While it may be a bit of a long shot, as you've built the system yourself, I can't see giving it a shot doing any harm.

 

[lightice]

Have you tried using only two sticks of RAM?

I did a bit of searching in relation to my old blue screens, and it seems that some of the P5Q boards (including the P5Q and the P5Q Pro) can exhibit odd behaviour with 4 sticks of RAM. One symptom that someone posted about was the onboard LAN 'disappearing', and there are a lot of "random" blue screen reports.

While it may be a bit of a long shot, as you've built the system yourself, I can't see giving it a shot doing any harm.

Hi Pirl, what does 'disappearing' mean? I see the adaptor in device manager and also my network connections. But it just doesn't seem to work now. This actually just happened.

Well it suddenly started working again, the lan that is. :S

 

[Pirl]

By 'disappearing' I mean that it no longer shows up in Windows.

 

[lightice]

Oh, it shows up in windows. I checked everything it shows that it is 'working correctly'.
But unfortunately it shows 'unidentified network' and 'unable to connect to network'.

Sometimes it shows network cable unplugged.
Now it's working fine, after i did a diagnose and repair. The repair message was "DNS server address incorrect" or something of that sort. But I followed the exact same DNS server as my netbook.

After 3 reboots since getting back network access, it seems to be working.
This happened previously as well, but not so serious.

Could this be the problem to my BSODs?

 

[Pirl]

I'm about 12 hours off confirming that my blue screens were related to having four sticks of RAM installed (any combination of which, in pairs of two, seem to be fine)

 

[lightice]

I'm about 12 hours off confirming that my blue screens were related to having four sticks of RAM installed (any combination of which, in pairs of two, seem to be fine)

How do you confirm them? I'm sorry if this seems like a stupid question. Because I can run memtest86 for 12h (overnight) on 4 sticks of ram without any errors.

 

[Pirl]

You take two sticks out and see if you get the blue screens anywhere near as often.

For me, I was getting them randomly between a few minutes after boot to ~a day after boot.
Since I took two sticks out ~2.5 days ago I haven't had one.

If I get 3 days of uptime without a blue screen with 2 sticks when I could hardly get 1 day with 4 sticks, I see it as a reasonable assumption that it's somehow related to having 4 sticks in.

 

[lightice]

You take two sticks out and see if you get the blue screens anywhere near as often.

For me, I was getting them randomly between a few minutes after boot to ~a day after boot.
Since I took two sticks out ~2.5 days ago I haven't had one.

If I get 3 days of uptime without a blue screen with 2 sticks when I could hardly get 1 day with 4 sticks, I see it as a reasonable assumption that it's somehow related to having 4 sticks in.

I see, thanks, I'll give it a try. It's been up for a while now without any issues.
The problem is I can't leave the computer on when I leave the house, my area is prone to unexpected weather changes and thunderstorms can occur out of the blue.

My house is quite prone to lightning strikes, so I usually unplug when I leave the house.