Author: heapson
Subject: Fatal1ty K6+ BSOD - Need some fresh ideas
Posted: 04 May 2016 at 6:51am
Intel Burn in Test (IBT) for 10 passes completed no problem.
Kicked off Prime 95 with standard settings last night.
All eight worker threads reported zero errors with slightly varying numbers of tests over 13 hours.
I don't have another PSU to try and it is one of the suspect components as it came from my previous computer but it's less than six months old and it's not an el' cheapo PSU.
The tests above and Memtest suggest to me, the PSU, the CPU and the RAM are all good. Handbrake encodes have run overnight successfully several times recently too. They've also crashed on the first item in the queue.
I'm starting to lean towards a faulty Sata controller or bus although I have tried isolating both the ASMedia and Intel Sata ports.
Sata analysis points
Edited by heapson - 3 hours 51 minutes ago at 7:34am
Subject: Fatal1ty K6+ BSOD - Need some fresh ideas
Posted: 04 May 2016 at 6:51am
Intel Burn in Test (IBT) for 10 passes completed no problem.
Kicked off Prime 95 with standard settings last night.
All eight worker threads reported zero errors with slightly varying numbers of tests over 13 hours.
"Torture Test completed 352 tests in 13 hours, 7 minutes - 0 errors, 0 warnings."CPU temp reached a maximum of 80C during the entire 13 hours.
I don't have another PSU to try and it is one of the suspect components as it came from my previous computer but it's less than six months old and it's not an el' cheapo PSU.
The tests above and Memtest suggest to me, the PSU, the CPU and the RAM are all good. Handbrake encodes have run overnight successfully several times recently too. They've also crashed on the first item in the queue.
I'm starting to lean towards a faulty Sata controller or bus although I have tried isolating both the ASMedia and Intel Sata ports.
Sata analysis points
- Sata SSD blue screens in ten minutes or less while idle
- M2 SSD is stable running Prime 95 for 13 hours
- Random errors on the Sata SSD and more consistent errors on the M2 SSD installation
- Repeatable crashes copying a specific large set of files between Sata drives
- Crashes occurred at different points of the copy so it wasn't a specific file
- Chkdsk /r almost always crashes on any drive, even on drives that have passed previously
- Seatools for Windows long generic test crashes on any drive
- Seatools for DOS crashes during long generic on any drive
I'm going to run a chkdsk /r on a USB external 2TB drive and see if it completes.
I'm about a day away from ordering a new motherboard. I'm nearly prepared to take the gamble.
Edited by heapson - 3 hours 51 minutes ago at 7:34am