Hi there. I have been experiencing some computer trouble lately and getting blue screens. This is a rather new build with Windows 7 64 bit. The specs include:
AMD 1090t (stock cooler)
G.Skill 2x2GB 1600mhz
MSI 890FXA-GD70
Nvidia GTX 260
two rather old seagate 250gb hds in RAID 0
It seems the blue screens normally have different errors, the one mentioned memory_cache, which leads me to believe that one of, or both memory sticks are bad. I ran memtest86+, one stick got a error but when I ran the test repeatedly, it didn't have any errors show up. I then used the windows memory test which didn't show anything. I tried stressing the CPU and RAM using Prime95. Each time, a few minutes into the test, one of the workers will stop because of an error. All it says is "Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file." Not very helpful when I can't find it, although I read that the stress.txt doesn't have anything useful online elsewhere. I use core temp to monitor my cpu temperatures, it idles at 26c and maxes at 60c. So nothing stange there. My graphics card drivers are updated.
When I look at the XML view of the Windows event viewer, I see this for the blue screens:
Any ideas on what could be wrong or what I can do further to narrow down the problem? Thanks!
AMD 1090t (stock cooler)
G.Skill 2x2GB 1600mhz
MSI 890FXA-GD70
Nvidia GTX 260
two rather old seagate 250gb hds in RAID 0
It seems the blue screens normally have different errors, the one mentioned memory_cache, which leads me to believe that one of, or both memory sticks are bad. I ran memtest86+, one stick got a error but when I ran the test repeatedly, it didn't have any errors show up. I then used the windows memory test which didn't show anything. I tried stressing the CPU and RAM using Prime95. Each time, a few minutes into the test, one of the workers will stop because of an error. All it says is "Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file." Not very helpful when I can't find it, although I read that the stress.txt doesn't have anything useful online elsewhere. I use core temp to monitor my cpu temperatures, it idles at 26c and maxes at 60c. So nothing stange there. My graphics card drivers are updated.
When I look at the XML view of the Windows event viewer, I see this for the blue screens:
Code:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" />
<EventID>41</EventID>
<Version>2</Version>
<Level>1</Level>
<Task>63</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000002</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-07-16T05:03:36.592835000Z" />
<EventRecordID>24046</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Taylor-PC</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="BugcheckCode">52</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0x50853</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0xfffff880031537e8</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0xfffff88003153040</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0xfffff80002d217b2</Data>
<Data Name="SleepInProgress">false</Data>
<Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
Any ideas on what could be wrong or what I can do further to narrow down the problem? Thanks!