BSODs fairly frequent, 0xf4, no dump created

[HonorGamer]

zz, If no one replied to it then send me a pm with the link inside, and I will take a look. I do apologize, but like you said we are swamped, and threads do get overlooked by accident sometimes.

Primo, If possible just try moving your computer closer to the router, just for a temp time. This way we can single out if the USB was the problem.

-Justin

 

[PrimoOptimoso]

Oh I was planning to run it all night with the USB wifi removed altogether. I do have a stupidly long ethernet cable I can use if I really need to get online =0)

And it *appears* that most PCI wireless adapters actually have short boards that may fit OK alongside my GPU! So if this little experiment works then that's a positive.

 

[HonorGamer]

Well go ahead with your idea because that sounds smart to me. I never thought of that before actually. So thanks because you taught me something .

But yes, that is true. They are small. But give the first option a shot to.

-Justin

 

[zzsdkzz]

It doesn't let me PM since I'm still under the 'New User' tag, so i'll leave this here

 

[PrimoOptimoso]

Well alrighty then - so, it ran all day with no issue and when I got home I unplugged the USB Wifi and uninstalled its driver. Ran all night, played a few offline games and moved some files around (including zipping large stuff in prep for offloading if needed) to make sure everything was working - totally fine.

This morning I went out and picked up a PCI wifi card and installed it - everything seems totally fine so far. My fingers are crossed but just to be safe I'm not calling it fixed just yet.

 

[HonorGamer]

Well if you do get any more BSODs please post back with the latest crash files. Hopefully it was just the USB modem that was doing it.

-Justin

 

[PrimoOptimoso]

OKAY! So..... almost an entire week! Then, just about 15 minutes ago, the 0xF4 came back! =0(

One change, yesterday I installed a Wacom Cintiq tablet/monitor. But I had had one on this system before with no ill effects... Got the latest driver and everything for it.

One thing I see in the event log - since STILL no dump files - is a real abundance of those atapi event 11 errors. Controller error detected on IDE port 0 and all that.

=0(

 

[Krazymond]

I might be wrong but the f4 bsod is usually a Hard drive problem...
Now it could be the hard drive or the controller itself...

Atleast, that's what the f4 code represente in the database (of BSOD code)

 

[PrimoOptimoso]

Is there any way to determine whether it is the HDD or the controller? I don't wahnt to throw parts at a software issue or a reinstall at a hardware issue, but if it's between the mobo and the drive I *really* don't want to waste money on replacing the wrong thing, since no money and all...

 

[PrimoOptimoso]

OK, so, the stack of atapi errors are the only consistent thing that happens before a BSOD here. They have all been on IdePort0 thus far. I need to figure out which SATA that corresponds to.

My mobo has 4 SATA ports. Previously my optical drive was in port 4 and my HDD in port 3. I just swapped those. so, now...

HDD: SATA Port 4, ATA Channel 1 in devmgr
CD/DVD: SATA Port 3, ATA Channel 0 in devmgr

But which of these is IdePort0? I can't find anything in Device Manager, BIOS, nowhere that actually tells me.

I'm about to put a bullet in this machine =0(