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Hi. I built this PC about just a year ago now without any real hitches or problems (other than disappointment in Creative's sound card...). Recently however things seemed to have taken a turn for a worse, and I'm getting large amounts of seemingly random BSoD's with their all too generic "something's broke" messages. And it's been constantly a different message each time. Sometimes it's "PFN_LIST_CORRUPTED" or Bad Pool, or IRQL Less to or Equal, or Page Error etc. My first thought was bad RAM, so I tried to memtest it off a CD. Memtest keeps freezing though. Either I run it in normal mode where it freezes or I run it in the multi-core mode and as soon as it begins the whole honking thing just resets. So I figure screw it, and I tediously remove 1 stick of RAM at a time about every two or so BSoD's to dumps. There's 4 1 gig sticks altogether. So I BSoD, I remove one. I BSoD, I replace the one I removed and remove another. At this point all four have been removed at one point or another and I still get the BSoD.
This all seemed to start a few months ago, when in frustration I tried to get the sound card's "flexi jack" to work and updated the drivers from Creative. I thought, maybe, this was a driver issue. I've had issues with trying to reinstall the drivers from Creative (everytime I try to install the ones from their site, I get a message saying no supported product can be foind). I have since then manually removed the dang card itself and gone off the onboard sound. I did not uninstall the drivers first, but I can't imagine they would still cause issues even if the physical device itself doesn't show up in my device manager now.
The BSoD's seem to happen completely randomly. Sometimes they'll just happen while the system is sitting idle, other times in the middle of a game, and I've seen them happen several times just as Windows is starting up. I don't seem to have any repeatable action I can take that makes the crash happen.
Please, if you have any advice or ideas on where I can go from here to try and solve this, I'd greatly appreciate. I'll post the specs below.
Processor: 2.40 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache
MoBo: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5N32-E SLI PLUS 1.XX
Bus Clock: 266 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS P5N32-E SLI PLUS ACPI BIOS Revision 0803 07/26/2007
RAM: 4094 Megabytes Installed Memory
OCZ Brand 1 Gig sticks all.
Slot 'DIMM_A1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM_A2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM_B1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM_B2' has 1024 MB
Drives:500.11 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
175.55 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1L SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
HP USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1
SAMSUNG HD501LJ SCSI Disk Device (500.11 GB) -- drive 0
Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
Sound Card: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio
OS: Microsoft Windows Vista
And I'll dig up and post any more information if you need it.
This all seemed to start a few months ago, when in frustration I tried to get the sound card's "flexi jack" to work and updated the drivers from Creative. I thought, maybe, this was a driver issue. I've had issues with trying to reinstall the drivers from Creative (everytime I try to install the ones from their site, I get a message saying no supported product can be foind). I have since then manually removed the dang card itself and gone off the onboard sound. I did not uninstall the drivers first, but I can't imagine they would still cause issues even if the physical device itself doesn't show up in my device manager now.
The BSoD's seem to happen completely randomly. Sometimes they'll just happen while the system is sitting idle, other times in the middle of a game, and I've seen them happen several times just as Windows is starting up. I don't seem to have any repeatable action I can take that makes the crash happen.
Please, if you have any advice or ideas on where I can go from here to try and solve this, I'd greatly appreciate. I'll post the specs below.
Processor: 2.40 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache
MoBo: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5N32-E SLI PLUS 1.XX
Bus Clock: 266 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS P5N32-E SLI PLUS ACPI BIOS Revision 0803 07/26/2007
RAM: 4094 Megabytes Installed Memory
OCZ Brand 1 Gig sticks all.
Slot 'DIMM_A1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM_A2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM_B1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM_B2' has 1024 MB
Drives:500.11 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
175.55 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1L SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
HP USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1
SAMSUNG HD501LJ SCSI Disk Device (500.11 GB) -- drive 0
Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
Sound Card: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio
OS: Microsoft Windows Vista
And I'll dig up and post any more information if you need it.