BSOD's on new system build

[felony2277]

I would appreciate any help on this if possible.

I bought a new PC about a week and a half ago. The only two things that have stayed the same from this PC and the last PC is the video card and the hard drive.

The specs:
AMD FX-6300 Vishera 3.5GHz
G.SKILL Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970
Cooler Master i700 power supply
EVGA GTX 285 2GB GPU
Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit

Onto the problem. In the past week I've had two BSOD's. On my previous computer, I had BSOD's, but shrugged it off as the memory since it was 6 years old and ready to bite the dust. The bug codes were also different. I'm not an expert on BSOD's so I decided to come here for some help and information on my situation.

I downloaded a program called "BSOD Viewer" and tried to get some more elaborate information on the problem at hand.

http://i.imgur.com/IzBmr3w.png
^ This first BSOD occured when just muting my sound from my keyboard. Just hit the mute button and boop, there it was.

http://i.imgur.com/yhhSoo9.png
^This second one occured while ALT+F4ing out of a game. It wasn't a very graphic intensive game, but enough to shoot my GPU up to 55C.

Those are my current issues. I have tried the following to resolve them.
Updated graphics drivers completely. Even replaced nvlddmkm.sys with the 'latest' version via the command line route.
Cleaned out the GPU completely. Reapplied new thermal paste to it's heatsink (very carefully, it's my baby!).
After the first blue screen, I ran memtest on both sticks of ram separately for 12 hours and came up blank.
Updated all drivers on the mobo for the chipset, lan, usb, etc.
Windows updated right up until a couple of days ago.
All temps are below 50 while idle. GPU sits at a nice 45. Nothing in my system passes the 60C mark even on full load.

I'm pretty sure it may be my video card from what I have researched. It's unfortunate since I love this card even if it is a little out-dated. What I'm looking for is second opinions on this. I want to be wrong and I want it to be a driver issue, but since this happened on my last computer with this very same video card, I'm not optimistic. Absolutely no other issues other than this. No slow downs, freezings. I'm loving this new machine so far. But BSOD's get me down 🙁

I would appreciate any suggestions, replies or input on this. Thanks!

 

[Tradesman1]

What's the actual model # of the DRAM? Is it running at 1600? Can check CPU-Z in the memory tab, should show 800 (true freq, take it times 2 to get effective of 1600)...

 

[felony2277]

What's the actual model # of the DRAM? Is it running at 1600? Can check CPU-Z in the memory tab, should show 800 (true freq, take it times 2 to get effective of 1600)...

Model F3-1600C9D-8GAB

It's showing 802.7 MHz

 

[Tradesman1]

Might be a weak MC (memory controller) , just to test try raising the DRAM voltage to 1.55 and the CPU/NB voltage to 1.16

 

[felony2277]

Done. So far no issues, other than after that last BSOD, start up has been significantly slower. Should I just dot around and play games to see if it reproduces? Or would it have done so already?

Edit: Gonna run another memtest for about 8 hours to be sure.

 

[felony2277]

Sorry to bump.

It has happened again. Exact same error. This time I was ALT F4ing out of a game. Really wish I could find a solution to this.

 

[Tradesman1]

May be a bug in the game itself, or from a different driver, might see if you can borrow a couple of sticks of DRAM to test with, it the problem persist then that should eliminate the DRAM as the problem....might also try a different PSU which could be failing....or try a different GPU, the 285 is a great one (have one of them on a SB rig, but they are getting a bit long in the tooth