Author: heapson
Subject: Fatal1ty K6+ BSOD - Need some fresh ideas
Posted: 19 May 2016 at 9:57am
The saga continues!
Good news for AsRock I think. After reinstalling Windows with the new motherboard from a different manufacturer, I had three blue screens before I'd even finished installing drivers. I cried a little at this point.
I started again with a fresh install to see if it was a repeatable driver installation issue and this time got all the Windows updates completed and all the latest drivers installed. While installing Visual Studio, it blue screened yet again. They appear to be fairly random bug checks once again but all occur in ntoskrnl.exe+142780 the same as the AsRock board with the latest an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.
I'm using the new 32GB of G.Skills RAM and a fresh Windows 10 installation but that's the only change from the previous few days of stability.
On a brighter note, all software has activated without any issue.
I've reordered the PSU I cancelled so I'll report back in a week or two. My current line of thinking is the new more expensive motherboard is hiding the PSU instability better than the AsRock board.
To be fair to AsRock, if this system is ever stable, I'll reinstall using their motherboard before I do the RMA.
Edited by heapson - 6 hours 24 minutes ago at 9:58am
Subject: Fatal1ty K6+ BSOD - Need some fresh ideas
Posted: 19 May 2016 at 9:57am
The saga continues!
Good news for AsRock I think. After reinstalling Windows with the new motherboard from a different manufacturer, I had three blue screens before I'd even finished installing drivers. I cried a little at this point.
I started again with a fresh install to see if it was a repeatable driver installation issue and this time got all the Windows updates completed and all the latest drivers installed. While installing Visual Studio, it blue screened yet again. They appear to be fairly random bug checks once again but all occur in ntoskrnl.exe+142780 the same as the AsRock board with the latest an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.
I'm using the new 32GB of G.Skills RAM and a fresh Windows 10 installation but that's the only change from the previous few days of stability.
On a brighter note, all software has activated without any issue.
I've reordered the PSU I cancelled so I'll report back in a week or two. My current line of thinking is the new more expensive motherboard is hiding the PSU instability better than the AsRock board.
To be fair to AsRock, if this system is ever stable, I'll reinstall using their motherboard before I do the RMA.
Edited by heapson - 6 hours 24 minutes ago at 9:58am