Oct 08, 2011 Driver causing BSOD, can't tell which one I looked at the minidump myself, but I wasn't sure how to interpret it. I'm pretty sure it's telling me that the BSOD is being caused by a driver, but not sure which one it could be. Anyone have any ideas? BSOD Help and Support: hal.dll Driver Causing BSOD. Here's what I've tried to fix it. Since installing new RAM, I now get a BSOD. I'm currently running Win 7 64bit. I moved from 8gb ram to 16gb, and after installing the new ram modules, every now and then my system just crashes with the BSOD.
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| System Name | ATLAS |
|---|---|
| Processor | i7-6800K |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-X99P-SLI |
| Cooling | Cooler Master 212 Evo |
| Memory | 2x16Gb GEIL CL16-16-16 D4-2400 |
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Bad Ram Slot
Hi everyone. That's not my first build and not my first hardware-related problem, so usually I know what I'm doing. Yet this time, it really drives me nuts.
So, about a month ago I started experiencing random reboots. No BSOD (so no memory dumps whatsoever), just kernel power error 41 logged on boot with no useful information. There seems to be no correlation with what I'm doing, e.g. CPU load. The temps are fine, not more than 60C on full load, below 40C 95% of the time. There's also no steady frequency of crashes, but subjectively it went from ~1/day to 2/day in a couple of weeks.
Steps I've taken:
1) Installed the powerful UPS - no effect.
2) Changed the PSU (redoing all connections in process) - no effect.
3) Reinstalled Windows - no effect.
4) Moved both of the RAM sticks to different slots - seemingly, this reduced the frequency of crashes somewhat.
5) Disabled XMP profile (so RAM runs at 2133MHz now) - it seems to have further reduced the amount of crashes, yet they still happen.
So it really looks like bad RAM at the moment, but to my knowledge, bad RAM almost always manifests itself with BSODs. Does anyone have experience which is similar to mine - RAM so bad that it just forces PC to reboot? And I would be eternally grateful for any idea for further troubleshooting.
I can just replace the RAM of course, but I would prefer to be sure that it will solve the problem. My fear is that it can be CPU memory controller, which would be much worse.
Relevant specs: X99P-SLI Gigabyte motherboard, i7-6800K, 2x16Gb GeiL DDR4-2400 sticks.
So, about a month ago I started experiencing random reboots. No BSOD (so no memory dumps whatsoever), just kernel power error 41 logged on boot with no useful information. There seems to be no correlation with what I'm doing, e.g. CPU load. The temps are fine, not more than 60C on full load, below 40C 95% of the time. There's also no steady frequency of crashes, but subjectively it went from ~1/day to 2/day in a couple of weeks.
Steps I've taken:
1) Installed the powerful UPS - no effect.
2) Changed the PSU (redoing all connections in process) - no effect.
3) Reinstalled Windows - no effect.
4) Moved both of the RAM sticks to different slots - seemingly, this reduced the frequency of crashes somewhat.
5) Disabled XMP profile (so RAM runs at 2133MHz now) - it seems to have further reduced the amount of crashes, yet they still happen.
So it really looks like bad RAM at the moment, but to my knowledge, bad RAM almost always manifests itself with BSODs. Does anyone have experience which is similar to mine - RAM so bad that it just forces PC to reboot? And I would be eternally grateful for any idea for further troubleshooting.
I can just replace the RAM of course, but I would prefer to be sure that it will solve the problem. My fear is that it can be CPU memory controller, which would be much worse.
Relevant specs: X99P-SLI Gigabyte motherboard, i7-6800K, 2x16Gb GeiL DDR4-2400 sticks.