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    Windows 7 Need help: BSOD caused by AMD Radeon R9 290 series

    My specs: CPU: QuardCore AMD Phenom II X4 Black Edition 965, 3415 MHz Mainboard: M5A78LLE ASUS RAM: 8 GB RAM GPU: Sapphire Tri-X R9 290 Power adapter: SF-550P14HE 550W 230V only System: Windows 7 Professional So, whenever I use my Sapphire Tri-X R9 290 my computer crashes absolutly randomly...
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    Windows 7 Four different blue screens in about one hour...

    First of all, hello to this forum! So, when using my computer today it suddenly crashed with a DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL blue screen caused by some usb driver. When I was looking into this crash my computer crashed once again, this time with an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL message. A few minutes...
  3. Windows 7 BSOD Help please

    I keep getting bsods a few times a day now and end up with this error code after i did the verified drivers stress test, when i was running the test my computer would blue screen just b4 the login everytime so im guessing its a driver issue of some sort. STOP 0x000000C9 (0x000000000000023E...
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    Windows 8 BSOD every hour on the hour - tried driver fixes - nothing :/

    Hoping you can help: Here are my specs: Link Removed Here is my bsod log: Crash dumps are enabled on your computer. On Sat 5/24/2014 10:00:00 PM GMT your computer crashed crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\052414-22312-01.dmp This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe...
  5. Windows 8 Random BSoD's

    I am having random BSoD's: Mostly CRITICAL_STRUTURE_CORRUPTION (ntfs.sys) and SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION. System Specs are: z86 Maximus IV Extreme-Z i7 2600k 4x Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz 2x R9 290x gfx card 2x OCZ Vertex 3 on RAID0 1x 3TB HDD X-Fi Titanium HD Windows 8.1 update 1 it happens at...
  6. Windows 7 Windows 7 constantly Blue Screen'd/Not Genuine?

    Ok, so I've constantly been getting Blue Screens of Deaths, ever since last Sunday. I was browsing through DeviantArt, consistantly getting these "Windows is not Genuine" messages out of nowhere, which is weird, since I've had a valid copy of Windows since 2010. Anyway, not too long later, the...
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    Windows 7 BSOD while compiling

    Sine a few days I experience annoying BSOD while compiling with Visual Studio 2003. My system and compiler have been running fine for 2 years or so and I made no recent changes (other than a few auto-updates of different software's). The crash occurs immediately after I press the Build Solution...
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    Windows 7 Possible power Issue

    Just a question as I am not 100% sure myself so I thought I would ask to save myself time trying to figure it out as I'm a little pushed for time to sit & have a look. Got a system was a 500w value PSU, Dual Core AMD cpu, 4gig ddr2, 2 hdd's & a 3780 GPU. Recently I added the second HDD which is...
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    Windows 7 BSOD when playing video games

    Hello everyone, Recently when playing games, I would get BSOD. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I have screenshots of the problem. Thank you for your time.
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    Windows 8 *UPDATED* Months of Bluescreens... now very frequently happening while watching Youtube videos

    Hi all, This has been an ongoing issue for months, but it had calmed down. But now the past few days it has become very frequent again - I am now getting totally fed up with it as I don't know what it causing it. I have a 4770k Intel Kingston 8GB 2400mhz ram MSI MPower Z87 Board AMD 290X video...
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    Windows 7 BSOD caused by mountmgr.sys(BAD_POOL_HEADER)

    Hello, i recently faced a BSOD. BlueScreenView software says it is caused by mountmgr.sys.. don't know what to do????????/ bsod(BAD_POOL_HEADER often) always takes place when system remains idle(frequently). please help....:( by mistake the dump file is deleted, although uploaded txt might help..
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    Windows 8 2 identical PCs, 1 is unstable (IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL)

    My brother and I built identical Windows 8 PCs earlier this year, we were both virgin system builders. His has been stable but mine has been crashing a lot, something in the order of 50 BSoD in 5 months. I've been trying to solve it myself but I'm running out of ideas. It has never been stable...
  13. Windows 7 Blue Screen Problems and Windows Installer

    Been having some problems with blue screens for a while now. I recently managed (I think) to deal with ones related to fwpkclnt.sys, thanks to some help on the web. But today I started having problems again. DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS THAN EQUAL and tcpip.sys were the two names I managed to catch...
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    Windows 7 Help with BSODs

    Win 7, 64 bit, Home Premium 12Gb memory, 120GB SSD system drive. Norton Antivirus running Just started happening today. 3B, 1E, 24, and 3B so far. System is very unstable. Everything very slow and this is a fast machine. Everything is taking forever to load, sometimes won't shut down, have...
  15. Windows 7 Random BSOD's + Dmp's

    I get random bsod's every day after i have been used my computer for few hours, my computer is relatevely new and i have cleaned the hardware so its not overheating or atleast i think its not. here is the dmps
  16. Windows 7 0xD1 Error, possible driver problem

    DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL: Got this problem after building a new computer (from scratch) and finished installing all the drivers, programs and related stuff. Began to play around with it (overclocking, overvolting, etc.) and found stables for everything. After this: Ran it through Prime95...
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    Windows 7 Window 7 Professional, Audio stutters and computer freezes

    I recently bought a new gaming rig, here's the specs CPU: Intel Core i5-3350P 3.1GHz Quad-Core Mobo: MSI B75MA-P45 Micro ATX LGA1155 Ram: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Storage: Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5" SSD, Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM GFX: EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2GB PSU...
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    Troubleshooting Windows

    I have to say, back when the career path for technology led through end user support I learned a lot right out of school. Most of what I learned I still carry with me today. Even so, time and bad habits can cause a person to forget some best practices. When Windows 8 was forced upon my new...
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    Windows 7 multiple crashes with the following CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT_8_PROC

    comp has been running flawlessly for over a year. last night around 12am i started it up from sleep and it started crashing with BSODs, same one every time. when rummaging through the MEMORY.DMP file and it pointed to CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT_8_PROC: FAULTING_MODULE: fffff8000325d000 nt...
  20. Using Driver Verifier to identify issues with Windows drivers for advanced users

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