Windows 10: BSOD - Crashing way too frequently in the past few weeks...

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MemTest86+ needs to be run for at least 8 complete passes for conclusive results. Set it running before you go to bed and leave it overnight. We're looking for zero errors here. Even a single error will indicate RAM failure.

Make a photo of the result and post it please.

Addition:
If errors show up you can stop the test, remove all sticks but 1 and test this single stick in each slot for 8 passes or until errors show, switch sticks and repeat.
If errors show up and you see them a lot later, no problem, the errors don't affect the test.






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HDD TEST I've started the MemTest86 earlier this afternoon... now into almost 6-hours and have completed 3-passes. Will let it run through the night and the day until I come home from work. See attached for details.

 

Intelppm.sys is the Intel CPU driver.

Is it really a driver issue? If you could see the dumps normally without such garbage as WhoCrashed you could see that a lot of the 0x124 dumps show the intelppm.sys in the beginning of the stack, that does not mean the driver is the cause.

 

If the computer works fine in SMWN without an issue will always be a driver or an app issue. If the system doesnt evem boot into smwn then definitely it is an issue with OS or H/W failure.

 

We already found that out, check some posts back...

 

Run MemTest86+ - Test RAM - Windows 10 Forums



Note



MemTest86+ needs to be run for at least 8 complete passes for conclusive results. Set it running before you go to bed and leave it overnight. We're looking for zero errors here. Even a single error will indicate RAM failure.

Make a photo of the result and post it please.

Addition:
If errors show up you can stop the test, remove all sticks but 1 and test this single stick in each slot for 8 passes or until errors show, switch sticks and repeat.
If errors show up and you see them a lot later, no problem, the errors don't affect the test.






THREE

HDD TEST . So after 26+ hours and 14-passes, I've got NO errors (see attached). What is the next step? Should I try determining if it's an issue with my SSD (Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State)?

 

The next step is the other tests I posted, or have they been done per the instructions? *Smile

 

Hi Axe0, aside from the recent MemTest 86, I've done Prime95 and Furmark with philc43 (see earlier posts for details). Should I focus on the SSD (primary Windows 10 drive) or something else?

 

Please run Furmark for 30 minutes as I requested, 10 minutes is by far enough.

 

Wished I could.

Pulled out my SSD and started to copy all the pertinent information to a back-up drive. Reinstalled the SSD drive and found that when booting into Windows 10, only a few icons (from 20+) appeared on my desktop and background went to default windows blue.

Force (hard) re-booted my computer, and then new messages started to pop up on the POST screen via Windows:

Diagnosing your PC
Preparing Automatic Repair

And then it would crash with the BSOD that looked all distorted on the 4k monitor. I tried a few more soft reboots and then gave up on the loops. Decided to install Windows 10 from scratch.

Placed the bootable USB Windows 10 that I've created a day earlier and then before I got a chance to enter Windows 10 key, the BSOD showed it's ugly head. I knew then it was not OS related, rather hardware.

So I've called up Intel and managed to get through to a customer service rep and started the RMA process on the i7-6700k CPU that I've purchased from March 2016. We'll see how that goes.

Thank you all for your help!