Frequent Blue Screens

[Migrainium]

I did a clean reinstall of the GPU and I attempted to use who crashed, but since dump files don't get created, it's not helping me.

However, I found this, which seems to be incredibly relevant. I'll try out the clean wipe of my SSD.

Thanks for all the help on this, I really appreciate it. I did some digging, and it turns out this is somewhat of a new problem for my SSD. One guy has said that it happens because of bad reads on sectors, and the sectors were always the same for him, but he has no bad sectors. So it's a firmware issue most likely, that apparently OCZ is working on. Who knows. But the fix (which most likely is just temporary, but maybe it will last another 6 months as that's how long before this crash happens for most people, myself included), is to do a secure erase and reinstall. I did so, and so far so good. BTW, before I tried the secure install I did manage to flash the firmware to the latest release, but still had issues. But thanks again for the help, you helped me come to the conclusion that it was the hard drive which ultimately led to me finding the forum thread about the issue! So in a round-a-bout way you solved the problem for me!

[MrDJ]

if youve had a bluescreen then who crashed should hold it in memory.
run the program and then scroll down the page and it should be there. its not massive like windows dump with thousands of lines but about 10-15 lines of text. thats all we need.

[Migrainium]

I was running who crashed when I got my last blue screen. The computer somehow restarted during the blue screen (but without dumping once again) which lead to a 0xc000000e boot error that wouldn't fix itself when trying to continue or exit from that error screen (both of which restart to system and go right back to the error). Only forcing it to shut down would fix this error.

Upon restart, who crashed didn't give me any report on what happened, just the "welcome to who crashed" and "home edition notice" messages. After clicking Analyze, who crashed didn't give any other useful extra information, the only text added afterwards was my System Information, Crash Dump Analysis and Conclusion. Under Crash Dump Analysis it said

"Crash dump directory: C:\Windows\Minidump.
Crash dumps are enabled on your computer.
No valid crash dumps have been found on your computer"

and under Conclusion saying

Crash dumps are enabled but no valid crash dumps have been found. It may be that there are problems which prevent crash dumps from being written out. Check out the following article for possible causes: If crash dumps are not written out.

In case your computer does experience sudden reboots it is likely these are caused by malfunctioning hardware, power failure or a thermal issue. To troubleshoot a thermal issue, check the temperature using your BIOS setup program, check for dust in CPU and motherboard fans and if your computer is portable make sure it's located on a hard surface. Otherwise it's suggested you contact the support department of the manufacturer of your system or test your system with a memory test utility for further investigation.

Check out the following articles for more information: Troubleshooting sudden resets and shut downs.

Read the topic general suggestions for troubleshooting system crashes for more information.

Note that it's not always possible to state with certainty whether a reported driver is actually responsible for crashing your system or that the root cause is in another module. Nonetheless it's suggested you look for updates for the products that these drivers belong to and regularly visit Windows update or enable automatic updates for Windows. In case a piece of malfunctioning hardware is causing trouble, a search with Google on the bug check errors together with the model name and brand of your computer may help you investigate this further.

The "if crash dumps are not written out" article hasn't helped because I do have them enabled.


As for driver issues, I did a secure erase of my SSD and did a clean install of drivers and the problem still persists (even got one blue screen while installing my drivers) so I suspect it's hardware. And all of the above concerning who crashed was done after the wipe.

[MrDJ]

thats strange, i dont know what else to suggest.
im on my third os install which is getting a bit annoying.

if you havnt already done so i would get onto malibal support and see if theve had any other problems reported.

[Migrainium]

While digging around the 0x0F4 and 0xc000000e errors, I come up with a lot of SSD based issues so I have a feeling my SSD is in no man's land between functional and dead. Ordered a new one online which should get here tomorrow (something I was considering doing anyways for some extra space) so hopefully that will fix the issue, and if not, I'll probably have to send it in to Malibal.

[Migrainium]

Did a firmware update and (so far) nothing has gone wrong. Was running firmware 09 on my M4 which was working just fine until this weekend. Going on 2 hours without a BSoD. Since the error has started, I haven't lasted more than just under an hour without one. I think it MAY have to do with this which is a very odd error but so far the firmware update has me running smooth.