Blue screen!

[ScottytooHotty]

Today my PC has started blue screening, I have just got back from working away for a week and it was fine before that it has happened to me 3 times while gaming twice playing firefall and once bf4, all 3 occasions we whilst nothing was going on so my system was not being pushed, any ideas?

Corsair 2013 Series GS 600W PSU
Asus P8Z77-V LX2 Intel Z77
i5 3570k overclocked to 4.5ghz
gigabyte GTX780 windforce over clocked by 112mhz
TeamGroup Elite 16GB (2x8G DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual
Alpenfohn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler
Samsung 840 Series 120GB SSD
Seagate 1TB HDD
Soundblaster X-fi extreme audio soundcard

 

[Mathius]

Have you disabled the 'Auto-Restart on BSOD' option... simple google will show you how....

next time it does it, take note of the stop code on the blue screen..again, google will help.

in the meantime though, check all your connections, re-seat ram, etc....

 

[Feronix]

Knowing what the screen says would indeed be helpful.

I'm assuming you've tried turning your overclocks down?

 

[ScottytooHotty]

Thanks for the replies people, I didn't manage to get a look at the error code when it blue screened on me but now I have disabled the auto restart function next time it does it I will make sure I get it.

Ironically it won't blue screen for love nor money now which I know is a good thing but I really want to know what has been causing the issue.

Also I have not messed with the overclocks yet as the machine is only 9 months old so I'm hoping that I don't have to turn the overclock down.

 

[ScottytooHotty]

Happened again.

So my comp blue screened again, here is an image of the blue screen:

 

[Xenomorphical]

So my comp blue screened again, here is an image of the blue screen:

There's no image?

 

[ScottytooHotty]

blue screen error

So my comp blue screened again, here is an image of the blue screen:

As the image wasn't allowed the blue screen showed

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

and the stop code is 0x000000D1

 

[Wraith]

Are you by any chance using McAfee Anti-Virus?

 

[Xenomorphical]

As the image wasn't allowed the blue screen showed

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

and the stop code is 0x000000D1

Did you google / try this answere?

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...sorequal/d18ae786-bcf0-4e29-829d-f75351010dc2

 

[Mathius]

Also take a gander through here

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001143.htm

almost a check list for this error

 

[Zoot]

Firstly, get rid of the overclocks to see if they're the problem. They likely are.

Also, adding to what others are saying, in the event that the overclocks aren't the issue, check the Windows Event viewer to see if there are any critical errors in the log before the BSOD. That'll tell you if a specific driver is crashing and taking the whole system along with it.

 

[ScottytooHotty]

Hi all, sorry I've not got back again I've been busy with work, I downloaded a blue screen viewer and found that it was ntoskrnl.exe that was crashing, I also found a lot of people had been having problems with anti virus software, so I downloaded malware bytes and ran that, it found12 infected files so I got rid of them and I haven't had a blue screen since.

I will keep you updated as to whether it starts happening again.

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Hi All,

Just thought I'd give a quick update to tell you that I have had no issues with this since I ran malwarebytes and got rid of the infected files.

Also wanted to say thanks for all the helpful replies, that's why I like this forum, people just want to help .

I hope you all had good times last night.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

 

[SPS]

I'm you got it sorted, thanks for posting back. HNY