I built my computer with help from people at this site last year (specs in sig). I have had this BSOD problem since almost the very beginning (oh, I'm running win. xp sp2 32bit). It has come and gone, making me thing I fixed it. I get 2 different types of BSOD's a KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR and a KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR. I know these have to do with memory, but my ram has not shown any errors the three times I've run memtest86 overnight. I do overclock my E6300, but my memory is at stock speed, and I throttled the CPU down as well, to see if that was causing instability.
I have 2 hard drives. I started out with them in a RAID array and got mostly kernel data bsods. I got them In the middle of games - oblivion, bf2, etc. So I split the array and installed xp on one hdd. I continued to get errors in crysis, bf2142, and others. So, I switched HDD's and installed xp on the other one, and now after 2 bsod's during the World in Conflict Demo xp will not boot completely, flashing a BSOD screen and restarting. I can't pause in time to see what it is, it's too fast.
Everytime I get the bsod I hear my hard drive shut off a few seconds before the bsod. I think it was an error in the paging file, but I don't think it was caused by my HDD's, because I don't think there are very good odds of getting 2 hard drives that work only most of the time (i.e. not totally dead), and have the same problem in both. which is why I think it's the motherboard. 680i's were known to have SATA problems, and yes I had the latest BIOS, but maybe I had an additional hardware sata controller problem when under load.
When I got the bsod's (the kernel data ones) they showed ftdisk.sys, and ACPI.sys. Apperently ACPI lets the OS control the power supply, maybe my PSU is somehow partially broken?
I apologize for the essay, but I've put up with this problem forever and I'd really like some advice on what to do next. I think I've tried everything that doesn't involve replacing components. Thank you so much for any help/advice/suggestions on this! Oh, and my temps were fine.
EDIT: I also could not get any dump files because windows couldn't dump to a hard drive that turned itself off (or something turned it off).
I have 2 hard drives. I started out with them in a RAID array and got mostly kernel data bsods. I got them In the middle of games - oblivion, bf2, etc. So I split the array and installed xp on one hdd. I continued to get errors in crysis, bf2142, and others. So, I switched HDD's and installed xp on the other one, and now after 2 bsod's during the World in Conflict Demo xp will not boot completely, flashing a BSOD screen and restarting. I can't pause in time to see what it is, it's too fast.
Everytime I get the bsod I hear my hard drive shut off a few seconds before the bsod. I think it was an error in the paging file, but I don't think it was caused by my HDD's, because I don't think there are very good odds of getting 2 hard drives that work only most of the time (i.e. not totally dead), and have the same problem in both. which is why I think it's the motherboard. 680i's were known to have SATA problems, and yes I had the latest BIOS, but maybe I had an additional hardware sata controller problem when under load.
When I got the bsod's (the kernel data ones) they showed ftdisk.sys, and ACPI.sys. Apperently ACPI lets the OS control the power supply, maybe my PSU is somehow partially broken?
I apologize for the essay, but I've put up with this problem forever and I'd really like some advice on what to do next. I think I've tried everything that doesn't involve replacing components. Thank you so much for any help/advice/suggestions on this! Oh, and my temps were fine.
EDIT: I also could not get any dump files because windows couldn't dump to a hard drive that turned itself off (or something turned it off).