Blue screen of death

Michael Christian

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Jan 6, 2015
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Hey guys, I've recently been getting the dreaded blue screen of death. The only new hardware that I have installed recently is a cpu fan, new keyboard and mouse. Nothing that I would think would cause a BSOD. I've tried removing the mouse and starting the computer, ending in a BSOD, tried the same thing with the fan and the keyboard, same result. And also my sound card only to have the same result. The stop error is saying that it could be a newly added piece of hardware or software but there isn't anything new other than those 3 pieces of equipment. Any ideas of some troubleshooting I can do my self before I bring my computer to a repair store? Oh and I have already done a reformat and reinstall of Win7 x64 earlier today and was able to get all of my drivers installed properly. But now (few hours later) I can't stay on the desktop for more than a minute before a crash.

Computer specs:
Intel i5-2500k
Asus P8Z68 MB
Asus Xonar DX sound card
NVIDIA GTX 770
4x4 DDR3 Ram
Cooler Master GTX 750W power supply
1 120G SSD
1 1TB @7200 RPM HDD
1 CD-Rom RW Drive
5 fans

I origionally thought that it may have been a power related issue, but I'm not really sure. Any help or advice is much appriciated. Thanks!
Edit: The actual stop error is INTERRUPT_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
 
Solution
have you checked the memory dumps to see if there is a driver associated with it? chances are, it is hardware related. could be a driver, but with a fresh install, it may not be. however, it still may be hardware related. the dump may help determine what hardware it is.
disconnect any, and every item that is not necessary to run the computer. this includes cd drives, other usb related items, etc. also, if you have more than one stick of ram, remove all ram except for one stick, then try it. if it fails, remove the one you left in, and replace it with another. also, try different ram slots.

melonhead

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have you checked the memory dumps to see if there is a driver associated with it? chances are, it is hardware related. could be a driver, but with a fresh install, it may not be. however, it still may be hardware related. the dump may help determine what hardware it is.
disconnect any, and every item that is not necessary to run the computer. this includes cd drives, other usb related items, etc. also, if you have more than one stick of ram, remove all ram except for one stick, then try it. if it fails, remove the one you left in, and replace it with another. also, try different ram slots.
 
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Michael Christian

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Jan 6, 2015
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I was looking elsewhere here on Tom's and I noticed something about mv91xx.sys (which I had seen on the BSOD) and I started reading into it and I found out that mv91xx.sys is a driver for the Marvell SATA ports on my MB. I moved my HDD and SSD out of those SATA ports and disabled them in the BIOS and everything appears to be working great. I still want to run the memory checker but I will do that later tonight. Thanks for the help guys!