I'm trying to revive this old pc and I'm stuck with these BSOD's. It used to work fine and haven't changed any hardware, only got new ram because 1 stick died.
PC Specs:
Also it will crash if I copy a large file from one location to another.
Same exact thing happens in safe mode.
Weirdly enough it will not crash if I put the system under stress. I've tried stress testing using Aida64, Prime 95, ROG RealBench for about 6 hours each and played Far Cry 2 for about an hour. This with both ram sticks installed. Temps remain in normal bounds, under 80.
What I've tried so far:
Could the CPU be making this issue? I think I might still have an e8400 somewhere but need to get some thermal paste too.
They only thing that I can think of that still remains "untested" is the PSU and the motherboard(don't have a spare for either). But I imagine the PSU is fine since under stress test everything works just fine.
So that leaves the motherboard being faulty with the ram slots?
Edit: Forgot to mention the bug string from BSOD's are PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, BAD_POOL_HEADER, DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and DRIVER_VERIFIER_IOMANAGER_VIOLATION blaming HIDCLASS.sys and ntoskrnl.exe when I actiavted Driver verifier. Got this info from BlueScreenView, don't really know how to properly read minidumps.
PC Specs:
- MSI P43 Neo-F
- Q9550
- 2x2GB Generic Ram DDR2 800 5-5-5-13-1.8V
- 640GB WD HDD Blue
- MSI GTX 460 1GB
- Vantec Ion2 450W
- Windows 7 x64 SP1(fresh install
Also it will crash if I copy a large file from one location to another.
Same exact thing happens in safe mode.
Weirdly enough it will not crash if I put the system under stress. I've tried stress testing using Aida64, Prime 95, ROG RealBench for about 6 hours each and played Far Cry 2 for about an hour. This with both ram sticks installed. Temps remain in normal bounds, under 80.
What I've tried so far:
- checked the ram sticks separately using memtest for 6 hours each and then together without errors
- Tried leaving the ram settings on auto, also tried putting their manual timers 5-5-5-13 1.8V
- no overcloking and all bios settings set to AUTO, also tried increasing the volts a bit over default
- sfc /scannow says everything is fine
- tried 2x1GB DDR2 800 ram sticks and same story, 1 stick is fine, 2 is trouble
- updated all drivers/chipset/bios and windows updates
- there are no obvious blown caps on the motherboard
- Scanned the HDD with chdks and it says 0 errors/bad sectors
Could the CPU be making this issue? I think I might still have an e8400 somewhere but need to get some thermal paste too.
They only thing that I can think of that still remains "untested" is the PSU and the motherboard(don't have a spare for either). But I imagine the PSU is fine since under stress test everything works just fine.
So that leaves the motherboard being faulty with the ram slots?
Edit: Forgot to mention the bug string from BSOD's are PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, BAD_POOL_HEADER, DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and DRIVER_VERIFIER_IOMANAGER_VIOLATION blaming HIDCLASS.sys and ntoskrnl.exe when I actiavted Driver verifier. Got this info from BlueScreenView, don't really know how to properly read minidumps.
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