Various Blue Screens of Death after New Hardware Installation

[Codplay]

Hi all,

I recently installed some new hardware on my computer after my old EVGA 8800GT graphics card died. I installed a new motherboard, graphics card, processor, and RAM Complete specs are in my profile, but the quick and dirty:
MB: Asus P8Z77M-Pro w/ i5 @ 3.4GHz
GC: EVGA GTX650 2GB SC
RAM: 2x4GB Kingston Genesis HyperX DDR3

Included in the attached zip are four dump files. The first two are basically the same error (driver_power_state_failure, STOP: 0x0000009f) and are unrelated (they occurred in March of this year, and haven't happened since! I can't remember what that was about, but I fixed it!)

The latter two are the ones giving me grief now, and they are both different!
They both occurred after I installed the new hardware and the computer has been running fine otherwise. Everything boots up fast, I can run Word and Chrome and other light software just happily. However, these errors BOTH occurred while playing Skyrim (one on the highest possible graphics settings, the other on a step down).

The first error is STOP: 0x0000009c error, MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION, seeming to be caused by hal.dll

The second error is STOP: 0x00000050, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, seeming to be caused by ntoskrnl.exe

I don't understand what could be causing these two different BSODs, both while playing the same system-intensive game. I haven't tried any other games to date to see if they also result in the same error (but watching a BluRay rip on fullscreen at 1920x1200 runs just fine).

The full SevenForums utility dump is attached, and my complete system information is in my profile. If I can provide any other information that you guys might need to help me track down this problem just let me know!

Thanks for your help!

-Philip

 

[Arc]

Welcome aboard, codplay.

The dumps you provided, the last one is of 4/10.
View attachment 236661
And, it is not a stop 0x9F, driver power state failure. It is stop 50, pagefault in nonpaged area.

So I am guessing, checking those cannot be helpful for your problem. Can you search for the latest dumps and upload those?

 

[Anthony]

Hi all,

I recently installed some new hardware on my computer after my old EVGA 8800GT graphics card died. I installed a new motherboard, graphics card, processor, and RAM Complete specs are in my profile, but the quick and dirty:
MB: Asus P8Z77M-Pro w/ i5 @ 3.4GHz
GC: EVGA GTX650 2GB SC
RAM: 2x4GB Kingston Genesis HyperX DDR3

When buying new hardware it is recommended to clean install any Operating System, while it can be done it avoids situations like these.

I would advise you clean install your OS, dont forget to back up your important Documents, files etc

Good Luck

 

[Codplay]

Hi Arc / Anthony,

Arc: They are the newest dumps. I haven't opened Skyrim (or any other game) since then and coincidentally, have not had the system BSOD on me.

The 0x9F errors were the 11/03 and 21/03 ones - from March, yes they are old and irrelevant, the SevenForums utility just grabbed them so I wanted to explain that they are actually not part of this problem.

I will try running Skyrim again today and seeing if I BSOD - but I wasn't sure if that would be helpful seeing as the latest two logs had two different STOP codes (but both the same cause - playing Skyrim).

Anthony: I do realize that, and I do plan on doing a fresh install - I suppose my concern is that the pagefault in nonpaged area error is commonly due to MB/RAM issues - and I'm not really sure how to read these logs in depth. I have tried running Prime95 to do a CPU/Memory stress test, but the application crashed within five minutes (I can try dig that log up if it might be helpful to you guys - but it was an appcrash, NOT a BSOD).

Cheers!

-Philip

 

[Arc]

Philip, you first go with what Anthony suggested, go for a clean install.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html

Hopefully it will solve most of the problems. If there is any hardware/RAM issue, it will be looked at even after that. OK?