Multiple Different BSODs Custom PC

[Svyn]

I'm trying to do that Command Prompt license verify that was requested before but I enter it in word for word and it's telling me "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."

 

[derekimo]

Forget about that other tool, I just found out it doesn't work on Windows 8.

In an elevated command prompt, type or copy/paste the following line,

Licensingdiag.exe -report%userprofile%\desktop\report.txt -log %userprofile%\desktop\repfiles.cab

Then upload the report.txt and report.cab that will be on the desktop.

Try this again, instead of copy/paste, Highlight the text in that line, use Ctrl+C to copy, then Ctrl+V to paste in the cmd window.

Let's just get it out of the way for now.

If you are going to type it in look at this below, the spaces are exaggerated for clarity.

Here's the command with extended spacing (use single space for ___ )


Licensingdiag.exe___ -report___%userprofile%\desktop\report.txt___ -log ___%userprofile%\desktop\repfiles.cab

 

[Svyn]

Finally got it working, I wasn't even putting spaces in it. Thanks for clarifying

 

[Slartybart]

I was trying to boot up using something with UEFI in it. (I'm using the Windows 8.1 Disk) I went into the BIOS after trying the first time and moved my ASUS disk drive to the front of the boot list. While looking at what I was originally trying to use, I couldn't figure out what it was, just that it had UEFI in the name, and the disk drive didnt have UEFI.

@Slarty
Here's the requested SS of Disk Management

Thanks, just jumped back in after seeing the Disk Management.

I tracked back and read your UEFI post - not sure exactly what you did though - I couldn't figure out what it was, just that it had UEFI in the name, and the disk drive didnt have UEFI.

Whatever you did enabled you to boot though.

I expected a Disk Management screen similar to this for a UEFI install:

But... I am by no means a UEFI guru and I do not know Win 8 at all.

It might be nothing at all or it might come back to bite you later... I don't know.

Members Gregrocker and Brink know all about these things.

I'm out (for real this time .

 

[derekimo]

Finally got it working, I wasn't even putting spaces in it. Thanks for clarifying

Someone will pop in to check that later, for now we can carry on.

Double check your updates again just in case.

I know you are itching to try steam so you can give that a try.

 

[Svyn]

@Slarty I got a window exactly like that during setup. It had a 100MB partition, my SSD and my HD on it as well.

 

[Svyn]

Just got this bad boy while playing Dark Souls 2.
I ran the previous program as Admin just like I was told, how should I enable Verifier? Same way as told in previous post or run it normally?

 

[Thedoctor44]

Enable Driver Verifier to monitor the drivers.
Driver Verifier -Enable and Disable
Run Driver Verifier for 24 hours or the occurrence of the next crash, whichever is earlier.

   Information

Why Driver Verifier:
It puts a stress on the drivers, ans so it makes the unstable drivers crash. Hopefully the driver that crashes is recorded in the memory dump.

How Can we know that DV is enabled:
It will make the system bit of slow, laggy.

   Warning

Before enabling DV, make it sure that you have earlier System restore points made in your computer. You can check it easily by using CCleaner looking at Tools > System Restore.

If there is no points, make a System Restore Point Manually before enabling DV.

   Tip

• If you fail to get on the Desktop because of DV, Boot into Advanced Boot Options > Safe mode. Disable DV there. Now boot normally again, and try following the instruction of enabling DV again.
• If you cannot boot in Safe mode too, do a System Restore to a point you made earlier.

Let us know the results, with the subsequent crash dumps, if any.

 

[Svyn]

There's a difference between the verifier for Win7 and Win8. After selecting "Create Custom Settings (for code developers)" it brings me to a new page asking me to enable individual settings from a list. Not sure what to enable here.

 

[Thedoctor44]

You want Standard Settings, Force pending I/O Requests and IRP logging.

 

[Svyn]

BSOD while playing DS2.

 

[derekimo]

BSOD while playing DS2.

Your single dump files aren't the way to post, run the tool and collect all the logs before uploading.

 

[Svyn]

My apologies, I was told before that I could do that and it was sufficient.

 

[Thedoctor44]

Please download and run this.

Malwarebytes | Anti-Rootkit BETA - Free Rootkit Scanner & Remover

It will scan for hidden viruses.

Before doing so please create a system image and restore point.
Here's some instructions.

How to create a Windows system image in Windows 7 and Windows 8

 

[Svyn]

Before I ran that test, I was just playing DS2 when my computer completely froze up like it does before a BSOD appears, yet this time it never progressed to the blue screen and instead just stayed frozen. Also looking in my Minidump folder under Windows shows only the 2 previous BSODs that I had before this.
I also found it interesting when the program listed above told me my SSD (where my OS is installed) was MBR. During Win8 setup it told me that it couldn't be installed to my SSD since it was MBR.

The scan also didn't reveal any issues.

Edit: I've also had previous issues with the computer freezing and not progressing to blue screen back on the Win7, not sure why I didn't think of posting that here.

 

[Svyn]

Yea it just did it again, this time it froze everything except for the sound, sound played normally. No BSOD log though.

 

[derekimo]

I also found it interesting when the program listed above told me my SSD (where my OS is installed) was MBR. During Win8 setup it told me that it couldn't be installed to my SSD since it was MBR.

It is MBR, after that hiccup during your second install, you must have enabled legacy mode in the bios.

This is from your msinfo32.nfo file,

System Name	JUSTIN-PC
System Manufacturer	Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model	Z87X-D3H
System Type	x64-based PC
System SKU	To be filled by O.E.M.
Processor	Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date	American Megatrends Inc. F4, 2013-05-09
SMBIOS Version	2.7
Embedded Controller Version	255.255
[B][COLOR="Red"]BIOS Mode	Legacy[/COLOR][/B]
BaseBoard Manufacturer	Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

From your Disk Management screenshot,

You can see the system and active flags, not seen in an EFI install like this one,

The scan also didn't reveal any issues.

There should be some logs from that scan, can you upload them.

How to use Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit to remove rootkits from a Computer

There will now be two log files created in the mbar folder called system-log.txt and one that starts with mbar-log. The mbar-log file will always start with mbar-log, but the rest will be named using a timestamp indicating the time it was run. For example, mbar-log-2012-11-12 (19-13-32).txt corresponds to mbar-log-year-month-day (hour-minute-second).txt. The system-log.txt contains information about each time you have run MBAR and contains diagnostic information from the program. A new mbar-log is created every time you run MBAR and will contain information about what was detected and removed.

As you can tell, this is becoming a headscratcher, it would help if you could tell us more details in your replies.

You just remember a previous freezing issue? Verbal results from tests aren't very useful, screenshots and log files are always better, we aren't there to see them so you have to be our eyes.

Another member, essenbe, mentioned something from your first post,

Playing Skyrim, I have the game completely pimped out in 2k resolution, very demanding in some areas (Riften). BSOD will occur randomly throughout the game.

What exactly are you doing to your games?

 

[Svyn]

Was trying to attach some files to answer the rootkit log files when I got a BSOD.

Moving on from that I could only find 2 log files in the mal-rootkit folder. (See attached)

Skyrim was modded out using Nexus Mod Manager, mostly character mods, additional item mods and terrain/texture mods. A lot of which were high def, around 2048x2048 resolution, and I ever only got my graphics display crashes during Skyrim. I most likely won't be playing Skyrim for a while since I'd have to completely re-mod it and start over, and that'll take days just to set up properly.

Just throw out a possible cause, could most of these BSODs be fixed if my SSD was properly configured to GPT instead of MBR?

Edit: The problem with the freezing not going to the blue screen is that the computer completely locks up and nothing but a hard restart will do anything. So screenshots and stuff like that would be difficult.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

If I haven't down so already may I put in my 2 cents worth and suggest this
Download Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 it might scour out something.

 

[Svyn]

Some shit is going down pretty fast, just had 3 BSODs in the matter of 5 minutes. Two of which were DRIVER_VERIFIER_DETECTED_VIOLATION. All DMPs included

Edit: Would also like to say that those two Driver verifier detected BS's were both on start-up AFTER the main Win8 menu came up, not during initial boot-up.
The one before that was when I was watching some YouTube videos full screened in Internet Explorer