Frequent blue screen - Windows 10. Bad_Pool_header, IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL, etc

KushDragon

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Hey guys.
So I get a lot of blue screens with Windows 10, and I have no idea what's going on. All of my drivers are up to date, and I've tried everything that I can think of to resolve the problem.
The blue screens happen most frequently when I'm running a video game. It used to happen a lot while playing GTA 5 online, but I've been playing Rust instead for the last few months and I'm having the same issue. The blue screens vary in description, but IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL is probably the most common. I also remember Bad_Pool_Header (or something like that) being the alleged cause on occasion. Yesterday I had my first "red" screen, which was new. I hadn't experienced that before. Basically, on a daily basis, I average one of the following: blue screens, unexplained shut downs, computer freezes and loops sound until I flip the PSU off. Sometimes my games just freeze, which I've grown to love because then I can just terminate and relaunch without having to reboot. Sometimes these issues happen 15 times in one night, sometimes not at all. But overall, they are very common. Here is my most recent event viewer bug description, as well as a screenshot of it.

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000000a (0x000000000000003c, 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000001, 0xfffff8000e705874). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 112115-7125-01.

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I rightfully purchased Windows 10 and clean installed the PC about 4 or 5 months ago. Before that, I was running Windows 7 and I did not get blue screens. That being said, my computer is a custom build, however I have not made any physical hardware changes to the PC since upgrading to Windows 10.

Specs: Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 (AM3+), AMD FX-9590 Eight-Core processor (4.72ghz) w/ Corsair liquid cpu cooler, 16 gigs of ram, Sapphire AMD-Radeon R9 2000 Series, Corsair CX750M PSU, 240 gig solid state, 3 other internal Hard drives for storage, 64-bit Windows 10 Home.

Let me know if any additional information is needed to determine the cause(s) of the issue(s). I will respond promptly.
Any help will be GREATLY appreciated! And thanks in advance


 
If you are overclocking stop! Let it run standard ghz and see what happens more likely the chip may be getting hot and causing this since this CPU is already overclock to the max anyhow from AMD ITS more less a better bin 8350. Also what R 9 card are you using there are many of them example using a R 9 290 and using the 9590 may require more then 750 watts of power because just alone ther 290 requires around a 650 watt power supply unit good brand and we know the 9590 uses around 225 watts just by itself could be some of the issues your having is your taxing the systems PSU beyond what it can run all the time good rule of thumb is to only use 3/4 of the rated PS on the system example PC 1 HAS A 500 WATT POWER SUPPLY SO YOU REALLY DONT WANT THE SYSTEM TO USE MORE THEN 375 WATTS ALL THE TIME...
 

KushDragon

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Hey Johnny, thanks for the quick reply

I'm not overclocking. My processor is 4.7ghz before overclocking, so I don't really see what the point would be. Maybe someday the recommended CPU requirement for games will be 5.0ghz, but until then I think I've got them doubled :sarcastic: