Windows 7 Crashing constantly, please help!

[GateKeeper07]

Hey everyone I am having major issues with Windows 7 install on a new build. This is my fifth PC to put together but my first windows 7, I am having nothing but troubles out of it.

At first I was crashing during install after many many tries I finally got it to install. Now it will either freeze or give me a BSOD while inside of Windows. I tried booting into safe mode and it still does the same thing, generally freezing instead of blue screen. I have changed power supplies, updated bios, installed MSI drivers for motherboard but I can't seem to get anything else to work. Everytime I try and install the video card drivers it will crash and I have to do a hard reboot. I am at wits in and am about ready to start RMAing once piece at a time back to newegg till something works.

Anyways these are my woes and I am hoping that you guys can help me to figure out what the heck is going wrong with this PC.

PC Specs are as followed.
MSI 870S-G46 AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s ATX
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit
AMD Athlon II X4 640 Propus 3.0GHz Socket AM3
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB)
VisionTek 900310 Radeon HD 5670
APEX AL-D500EXP 500W ATX12V Power Supply
ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA

I have also uploaded the data I retrieved from the dump files I received today.

 

[Wallonn7]

Hi GateKeeper07 and welcome to SF!
Follow Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) Posting Instructions
guidelines.
It helps us to help you.

 

[Tews]

We really need the actual .dmp files ... http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-debugging/96879-blue-screen-death-bsod-posting-instructions.html

 

[GateKeeper07]

Oh ok. I am at work right now. I will upload them this evening when I get home.

 

[GateKeeper07]

DMP files.

Ok here are the dmp files that I got yesterday while trying to get windows up and running. Hopefully one of you guys can make sense of things and help me get this PC up and running. Thanks in advance.

 

[GateKeeper07]

Anyone?

 

[GateKeeper07]

Can someone please help me. This PC is being built for my cousin and I would really like to get it working by the end of the weekend.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Hello,

Run Memtest86 and Prime95, letting us know the results of both.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105647-ram-test-memtest86.html

Be sure to run all three (Small FFTs, Large FFTs, Blend) Prime95 tests: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/100352-cpu-stress-test-prime95.html

 

[GateKeeper07]

Ok so I downloaded memtest86 and burn the ISO to a CD using imgburn and alcohol, it looks like files were written to the CD but when I tried to boot off of it nothing happens.

I switched my ram around today and windows stayed up much longer than yesterday but still crashes after a while giving me a blue screen.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Does it just hang on a black screen when you boot from the CD, or is there some error? You might try using a USB drive instead.

 

[GateKeeper07]

No I tried burning doing the create a image wizard with alcohol using a dvd and after it gets done burning it then shows nothing on the dvd and when I reinsert the dvd it ask if I wanna burn files to the dvd... very weird.

Well after 2 dvd attempts I finally found a blank CD, this actually copied files to the CD but when I Set to boot from CD-ROM drive first it just bypasses it and goes straight to windows.

 

[GateKeeper07]

I give up, I have to turn this thing on and off a dozen times, reset the bios and all these other BS before it will finally give give me the boot up screen. Otherwise it acts like my monitor isnt getting a video signal. I think I am going to RMA the card as defective and have them replace it.

 

[GateKeeper07]

OK, after taking a deep breath, rubbing my earlobes and chanting Woosah over and over I have calmed down and dove back into the fight. I unplugged all my memory and PC gave me a fit, obviously. then I unplugged the sata cable from hard drive and I booted up first time into cmos. I wasnt even getting this far before.

I now have memtest running and will let you know of the results.

 

[GateKeeper07]

OK, so after setting the memory manually in BIOS settings and running Memtest86 I completed 11 passes before the PC locked up on me. I am beginning to wonder if its a conflict with my motherboard, but I don't have any way to test this without buying a new motherboard.

Has anyone looked at my dump files to see what its pointing at as to what is causing the issues?

 

[Jonathan_King]

The dump files are only so helpful; when hardware is at fault, they usually can't help us. I have posted them just for kicks.

Try taking out all but one RAM stick, and if it crashes, use just one other.

I would also suspect the PSU. At 65% efficiency and $40, it really should be upgraded. If you can, return that PSU and buy this one: Newegg.com - CORSAIR Enthusiast Series CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply

...Summary of the dumps:

[font=lucida console]
Built by: 7601.17514.amd64fre.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850
Debug session time: Wed Jun 22 22:18:03.628 2011 (UTC - 4:00)
System Uptime: 0 days 0:02:45.205
Probably caused by : memory_corruption ( nt!MiLogPageAccess+1fc )
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
PROCESS_NAME:  services.exe
BUGCHECK_STR:  0x7E
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0x7E_nt!MiLogPageAccess+1fc
BiosReleaseDate = 03/23/2011
SystemProductName = MS-7599
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨``
Built by: 7601.17514.amd64fre.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850
Debug session time: Thu Jun 23 18:24:42.765 2011 (UTC - 4:00)
System Uptime: 0 days 0:00:39.655
Probably caused by : ntkrnlmp.exe ( nt!SwapContext_PatchXRstor+1c )
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR:  0x3B
PROCESS_NAME:  explorer.exe
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0x3B_nt!SwapContext_PatchXRstor+1c
BiosReleaseDate = 02/21/2011
SystemProductName = MS-7599
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨``
Built by: 7601.17514.amd64fre.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850
Debug session time: Thu Jun 23 18:23:26.807 2011 (UTC - 4:00)
System Uptime: 0 days 0:00:37.399
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for Ntfs.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for Ntfs.sys
Probably caused by : Ntfs.sys ( Ntfs+b9bbc )
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
PROCESS_NAME:  11-6_vista64_w
BUGCHECK_STR:  0x24
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0x24_Ntfs+b9bbc
BiosReleaseDate = 02/21/2011
SystemProductName = MS-7599
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨``
Built by: 7601.17514.amd64fre.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850
Debug session time: Thu Jun 23 18:18:09.176 2011 (UTC - 4:00)
System Uptime: 0 days 0:00:56.394
Probably caused by : ntkrnlmp.exe ( nt!ExAllocatePoolWithTag+537 )
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR:  0x3B
PROCESS_NAME:  SearchProtocol
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0x3B_nt!ExAllocatePoolWithTag+537
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨``
  
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[GateKeeper07]

Hey Jonathan. This is my cousins computer And we were on a very tight budget when bulding this computer. However I have already tried a better PSU and it is still doing the same exact thing as before. I have also tried doing one stick in different slots of the motherboard and running memtest86. The fartherewt I have gotten was 11 passes before the PC locked up. Also I have tried a different hard drive and still the same issues.

Is there anyway this could be motherboard related?

 

[Jonathan_King]

It's almost certainly a hardware problem, which component unknown. The motherboard is a possibility, as well as RAM and CPU. Run the three Prime95 tests: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/100352-cpu-stress-test-prime95.html

 

[GateKeeper07]

OK i will give prime a try. I just want this thing out of my house so I can stop worrying about it. I've never had this much trouble before.