BSOD and Prime95 errors

[error17]

Hi,
Im looking for help and advice on what could be the issue with my friends PC.
Its brand new, here are the specs:

1x Intel Core i5 6400
2x Corsair Value Select CMV8GX4M1A2133C15 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4
1x ASRock H110M-HDS-R3.0 Motherboard
1x MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Armor OC 6GB
1x Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB SSD

Windows 7 Home.

The power supply is an older Silverstone Strider Plus 600W ST60F-P salvaged from his old PC, and the cooler is a Noctua NH-U12S.

Nothing is overclocked or tweaked, its straight stock on everything. However Im posting here because I believe it may have to do with power or maybe the configuration of hardware.

The PC started to BSOD a few weeks after it was built, it would BSOD within 30 mins of normal usage, and the game CSGO would crash or BSOD within a few minutes.

I got him to reinstall the drivers and it stopped the BSOD from normal usage, but still BSOD after about 10 minutes in CSGO.

He did the Windows memtest and memtest86 and it passed.

I got him to run Prime95 test "In-place large FFTs", within a few minutes he would get "FATAL ERROR: Round was 0.4985325246, expected less than 0.4" and "FATAL ERROR: Final result was 00000000, expected CB8D21BD" and so on.

We would appreciate any suggestions on possible issues and solutions greatly!

Thanks.

This image is BSOD while playing CSGO:
http://i.imgur.com/Dxk6yjK.jpg

 

[Lutfij]

You mention that you're on Windows 7, did you make sure your BIOS is up to date while you followed through this path to install Windows 7 on your Skylake platform?

From the BSOD screen, looks like the culprit is your drivers for Nvidia. Try uninstalling using DDU and then reinstall using the latest version. If the latest version is causing the issue, then revert to older drivers.

 

[error17]

You mention that you're on Windows 7, did you make sure your BIOS is up to date while you followed through this path to install Windows 7 on your Skylake platform?

From the BSOD screen, looks like the culprit is your drivers for Nvidia. Try uninstalling using DDU and then reinstall using the latest version. If the latest version is causing the issue, then revert to older drivers.

Yep, we turned on the PS/2 simulator to get through the install from optical disc, then disabled it once windows was updated.

I'll get him to update the Nvidia drivers as soon as possible. It was up to date before I made him reinstall all the drivers again.

But theres still some problem with Prime95. Is it possible the mobo hasnt set the correct voltages to the RAM or CPU? Maybe I should get him to disable caching or shadowing as suggested on the BSOD?

 

[error17]

We managed to solve the issue. In the BIOS we set the DRAM frequency to match the sticks (in this case 2133), rather than have the setting on auto.

 

[Lutfij]

^ Hmmm, that has been the case with the new platform as of late. Was setting the frequency for the rams all that was needed or did you input ram's latency and voltages manually as well?

 

[error17]

^ Hmmm, that has been the case with the new platform as of late. Was setting the frequency for the rams all that was needed or did you input ram's latency and voltages manually as well?

Yeah, all that was needed was the frequency.

 

[Lutfij]

Awesome! Selected your post as the Best Answer which should help those in the same boat as you. 😉