I finished the new build around an Intel Core i9-9900K on a BIOSTAR Group B365MHC. I have all the latest patches, drivers, and the system is running stock (no overclocking). I have looked at the dumps and they tell me nothing useful.
I'm a former MCSE, A+, Net+, Sec+ and I'm pissed!
Please help? After running Win7-64 for a decade+ and never having a BSD, I'm going nuts. TechTeacher314.rar
Thanks.
MrPepka, sorry about the wrong data set. I followed the instructions and have attached the correct ones.
DESKTOP-7RKJFE4-Wed_02_10_2021_142617_18.zip
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I've been working to get past any possibilities of hardware errors. To this end I ran MemTest for most of the day (4 iterations). There were no memory errors either in RAM or cache.
I do believe it is hardware related.
Run Prime95 to stress test your CPU. Prime95 - Stress Test Your CPU - Windows 10 Forums
Warning
Your CPU temperatures will rise quickly while under this stress test. Keep a keen eye on them and abort the test if overheating occurs.
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For testing ram it has been proven testing inside a booted OS is much more effective than memtest86.
I suggest either karhu ramtester or hci memtest.
Boot up, try not to run anything memory intensive, and run this on all your free ram. For HCI I would say an absolute minimum is 100% coverage, for karhu which is much faster aim for at least 400% coverage.
Using your suggested techniques I'll run the test today.
What really get me ticked is that it seems to be random. I usually did my analysis by trying to repeat patterns. There is no pattern! The system freezes on occasion while I'm doing something else. I'll come back and the system is frozen, no blue screen or indication of a reboot.
Sometimes just a BSOD and the system is hung there.
Thanks for your support!
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Ran Prime95 for an hour, no errors, max-temperature 78 C over course of test.
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Ran one 100% iteration of memory test. No errors. Max temp 58.
Has anyone looked at the dumps? Point me in the right direction?
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Ran MSI Afterburner and MSI Kombustor 4 x64 for a few hours (the latter in burn-in mode). No errors.
What is getting me pissed is that during all of these stress tests, WIndows didn't BSOD or freeze once. At least an error or fault would tell me where to look or what to replace.
Suggestions please?
You got a hardware issue somewhere, the culprits are usually either cpu (if overclocked), ram, or PSU. Broken storage can also cause it.
You not overclocking, you seemingly have tested the ram, this leaves the PSU and ssd/hdd as potential candidates.
Bad software (especially software that installs own drivers) can cause BSOD as well, so do you have any software that installs drivers such as things like ramdisk software, or virtual machine software?
What modern software doesn't install its own drivers for either video or sound? If it is a driver, then short of going to the old test routine of disabling everything and then turning things on one by one I'm at a loss. And I truly doubt that it's the PSU.
All of the components are from top-tier manufacturers that do their own burnings before shipping. Here's a list
- Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case
- Cooler Master MasterLiquid LC120E
- EVGA 750 B5, 80 Plus BRONZE 750W, Fully Modular
- Crucial 32GB Kit (16GBx2) DDR4 2133 MT/s (PC4-17000) DR x8 Unbuffered DIMM 288-Pin Memory - CT2K16G4DFD821
- Intel Core i9-9900K Desktop Processor 8 Cores
- WD Blue 3D NAND 1TB Internal SSD - SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5"/7mm Solid State Drive - WDS100T2B0A
- BIOSTAR B365MHC LGA 1151 (300 Series) Intel B365 SATA 6Gb/s Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Further, I ran Linux Mint from a USB overnight with multiple YouTube videos running constantly. When I woke up this morning the system was still chugging away and is not errored out for a 10 hour period.
So I now know that it's Windows specific, probably a driver issue and not the hardware.
This theoretically is the point of dump software. To identify what specific devices cause the problem immediately before the crash.
I need someone with more skills than I have to read that dump and at least point me in the correct direction.
Thanks for taking a look.
The dump files are not going to help you very much - they are mostly pointing to hardware failure with 0x124 bugchecks. Unfortunately, these bugchecks rarely, if ever, tell you exactly which hardware component is faulty.
Swap testing of components is about all you can do. If you can borrow another CPU (compatible with your motherboard) to test I would try that.
Short of swapping components (something I am no-longer in a position to do), I just finished run hard-drive / SSD tests using CrystalDiskInfo and a SMART test. Neither reported any errors.
Between all the hardware tests and running and running Linux Mint from a USB overnight without errors, this is pointing to a driver issue in Windows. This is despite the fact that I have download all the latest drivers, patches and fixes.
Device Manager shows no errors. And Perfmon shows issues with keyboard and mouse "Device is not present, not working properly, or does not have all of its drivers installed", this is because I am running a Logitech keyboard and mouse without the Logitech drivers (I don't need them).
My last option is to pull the video card from the system and unload the associated drivers then use the native MoBo HDMI connection. That SHOULD tell me if the video card drivers are the issue.
If anyone has any other suggestions I am more than willing to try them.
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Just after I finished the last post, the system BSOD'ed!
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