Hello, I've been on a bit of a journey the past week so I'll try to be brief and organized.
Last Tuesday, I added 2x4 GB of new RAM (same make, manufacturer, GBs, speed, etc. as the old RAM) and hooked up a second monitor (same as old monitor, though due to my GPU's available outputs the old one is on hdmi and the new one is DVI). Since then I have been having regular BSOD crashes, typically after 3-4 hours of consecutive use though on Sunday it managed to go 7 hours without crashing. I have had seven BSOD in the past week. There appears to be no common program causing them, I'll just be watching a movie, playing a game, or doing some typing when the crash will just happen.
For quick reference, the probable causes for each BSOD are listed in the minidumps as follows (from oldest to newest, I only thought to record the Stop data for the two most recent):
dxgmms1.sys
win32k.sys
HDAudBus.sys
ntkrnlmp.exe
atikmdag.sys
tcpip.sys Stop oxoooooo7F
hardware/dxgmms1.sys Stop oxoooooo3D (the minidump listed hardware, the actual BSOD showed dxgmms1.sys as the cause)
Trying to figure things out for myself, I first tried removing the second monitor after the second crash. When that had no effect, I tried updating my GPU's drivers through AMD Catalyst Control Center. Then I ran memtest86 for 10 passes with no errors (I've included a screenshot).
At this point I'm guessing it's a driver problem or something wrong with my GPU, since several of the minidumps seem to point graphics being the issue, but I've never had this much trouble with a computer and I wanted to get some more experienced guidance before I go any further.
Thank you, I appreciate any and all advice on this issue.
Last Tuesday, I added 2x4 GB of new RAM (same make, manufacturer, GBs, speed, etc. as the old RAM) and hooked up a second monitor (same as old monitor, though due to my GPU's available outputs the old one is on hdmi and the new one is DVI). Since then I have been having regular BSOD crashes, typically after 3-4 hours of consecutive use though on Sunday it managed to go 7 hours without crashing. I have had seven BSOD in the past week. There appears to be no common program causing them, I'll just be watching a movie, playing a game, or doing some typing when the crash will just happen.
For quick reference, the probable causes for each BSOD are listed in the minidumps as follows (from oldest to newest, I only thought to record the Stop data for the two most recent):
dxgmms1.sys
win32k.sys
HDAudBus.sys
ntkrnlmp.exe
atikmdag.sys
tcpip.sys Stop oxoooooo7F
hardware/dxgmms1.sys Stop oxoooooo3D (the minidump listed hardware, the actual BSOD showed dxgmms1.sys as the cause)
Trying to figure things out for myself, I first tried removing the second monitor after the second crash. When that had no effect, I tried updating my GPU's drivers through AMD Catalyst Control Center. Then I ran memtest86 for 10 passes with no errors (I've included a screenshot).
At this point I'm guessing it's a driver problem or something wrong with my GPU, since several of the minidumps seem to point graphics being the issue, but I've never had this much trouble with a computer and I wanted to get some more experienced guidance before I go any further.
Thank you, I appreciate any and all advice on this issue.
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bitIntel Core i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz Haswell 22nm16GB dual-channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)3072MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 7900
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- custom built
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
- CPU
- Intel Core i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz Haswell 22nm
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z87X-D3H-CF
- Memory
- 16GB dual-channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
- Graphics Card(s)
- 3072MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 7900
- Hard Drives
- 932GB Seagate ST1000DM ST1000DM003-1CH1 SCSI Disk Device (SATA)
- Antivirus
- Microsoft Security Essentials
- Browser
- Firefox