Hardware Discussion Thread

[Garteal]

Well it depends on the actual type of message that comes with it and you had overclocked.
If it still happens at stock settings, download Blue Screen View, set the view to BSOD view, open the log in there and copy paste a screenshot of the bluescreen here.

[teh_speleegn_polease]

Done. Here's the screen:


The actual screen simply mentioned an uncorrectable hardware error instead of referring to ntoskrnl.exe, nor did it contain the line of information and addresses about ntoskrnl after the STOP message.

I also thought that the actual minidump information was interesting: http://i.imgur.com/mCcflQu.png. The majority of my crashes are the 0x124 kind, although there are some exceptions; and most of my BSODs have apparently been caused by ntoskrnl.exe (or hal.dll, although for some reason not in the last few months). Nevertheless, there seem to be some exceptions, and it's not always the kernel crashing; I have no idea how significant that is, especially since all the drivers mentioned are core system processes anyway.

As far as I understand, this all points to a purely hardware failure. Seeing as the CPU never showed any signs of malfunctioning, and my cooling is excellent, I believe it's probably the motherboard, ram or a PCI-e device. Going to be running memtest86 today, will report with the results of that either in the evening or tomorrow.

[Garteal]

That's a lot of BSODs and there's a lot of things that could possibly cause it. We could troubleshoot with you, but honestly, the fastest way at this point is to get the dumps analyzed.
There's a dedicated forum on SevenForums so I'd suggest to post your issue there so you can get this sorted asap.
Make sure to read the instructions.

[teh_speleegn_polease]

Ok, thanks for the suggestion. I'll look over there.

And yeah, I've been having semi-regular BSODs ever since I got this PC, which was in October last year (as can be seen from the dumps).

[Xtreme2damax]

I bumped my clock speed up to 4Ghz and put the side panel that has a fan on it back on my case. Temps seem better now than with it off or maybe something was glitching in the bios and upping my clock speed to 4Ghz "fixed" or unstuck it. I notice temps drop near instantaneous now after quitting a game or application and are slightly lower.

[KHg8m3r]

Intel dropped new drivers for the HD 42XX and up with support for OpenGL 4.3 and the ability to make custom screen resolutions among other things. Might also fix the bugs people are seeing in Windows 8/8.1 when using those iGPUs

[NaturalViolence]

They've had the ability to set custom screen resolutions for at least 4 years now. Probably a lot longer.

[KHg8m3r]

In the old manager it was very easy


In the new manager, it was convoluted:

[Garteal]

That new control panel looks awful.

[KHg8m3r]

Once you relearn everything, its not so bad