weird crashing issue

[darkangelism]

I am having a weird crashing issue on my system i keep getting blue screens with error codes 0x000000d1 and 0x000000a IRQL not less or equal errors. These on seem to occur when im not using the system if i leave it sitting on and leave when i come back its at the stop screen, It used to just reboot, but i disabled auto reboot. If i am using the system it doesnt give any errors and will stay up for the 12-15 hours that i use it, but once i go to bed or leave it might stay up 15 minutes or 4 hours then crash...sometimes it wont for 3 or 4 days and sometimes it will crash more then once in a day.

I have had some file system corruption previously and had to reinstall my OS that was about 6 months ago and I was running XP, after reinstall XP is when the issues started...which was about 4 months ago, about 3 weeks ago i had more file courruption and installed vista 64 bit instead of XP and the problems continue.

system specs:

Vista 64 bit ultimate all patches applied
opteron 170 2.0Ghz dual core OCed to 2.65Ghz
Corsair 4000PT DDR 500MHz @ DDR 486
western digital 32000KS 320GB 16MB cache hard drive
dual XFX 7600XXX GT video cards...nvidia driver 100.65 WHQL
motherboard is DFI Lanparty UT nforce4 SLI-D with 3/14/2006 BIOS

The hard drive passes western digital lifeguard diags and i have done multiple chkdsk runs and did a full format when moving to vista, I have also done 15 passes on memtest86+ and 0 errors on there. CPU temps is 35C idle and 41C load but the errors occur during idle activities not under load so I dont think its a heating or OCing issue.

my next step is reinstalling vista 32 bit on a PATA raid 1 with old drives that i have.

Any ideas on what the issue could be?

 

[Chrisb6122]

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Hope these can help.

 

[cutthroat]

Almost certainly a driver error, most of the time when there is a BSOD it lists an error code and a filename of a system file. Find out what the filename is next time it BSOD's and you might be able to track down which driver is the problem.

The fact that you said you have file corruption from time to time leads me to believe there is a problem with the motherboard drivers. I'd start by flashing your BIOS to a newer version if available, and then installing newer drivers for your motherboard if available.

 

[darkangelism]

it was nvmcp64.sys this time which is the nvidia storage driver.

 

[cutthroat]

Funny, cause that was my first guess, and why I mentioned the motherboard drivers. Try the BIOS flash, and newest drivers (get them directly from Nvidia), do not install what you don't need. I had heaps of troubles with my current nforce4 board drivers. Same as you, data corruption, having to reinstall, etc. Turns out it was the drivers. I never was able to get Nvidia RAID to work right, I ended up using the Silicon Image RAID controller on my mobo. No data corruption since.

 

[tamalero]

I am having a weird crashing issue on my system i keep getting blue screens with error codes 0x000000d1 and 0x000000a IRQL not less or equal errors. These on seem to occur when im not using the system if i leave it sitting on and leave when i come back its at the stop screen, It used to just reboot, but i disabled auto reboot. If i am using the system it doesnt give any errors and will stay up for the 12-15 hours that i use it, but once i go to bed or leave it might stay up 15 minutes or 4 hours then crash...sometimes it wont for 3 or 4 days and sometimes it will crash more then once in a day.

I have had some file system corruption previously and had to reinstall my OS that was about 6 months ago and I was running XP, after reinstall XP is when the issues started...which was about 4 months ago, about 3 weeks ago i had more file courruption and installed vista 64 bit instead of XP and the problems continue.

system specs:

Vista 64 bit ultimate all patches applied
opteron 170 2.0Ghz dual core OCed to 2.65Ghz
Corsair 4000PT DDR 500MHz @ DDR 486
western digital 32000KS 320GB 16MB cache hard drive
dual XFX 7600XXX GT video cards...nvidia driver 100.65 WHQL
motherboard is DFI Lanparty UT nforce4 SLI-D with 3/14/2006 BIOS

The hard drive passes western digital lifeguard diags and i have done multiple chkdsk runs and did a full format when moving to vista, I have also done 15 passes on memtest86+ and 0 errors on there. CPU temps is 35C idle and 41C load but the errors occur during idle activities not under load so I dont think its a heating or OCing issue.

my next step is reinstalling vista 32 bit on a PATA raid 1 with old drives that i have.

Any ideas on what the issue could be?

if it keeps crashing over and over and over, perhaps it could be your PSU or your RAM.
these can bring nasty errors.