Windows 8 New Mother board - Random BSODs

[TacticalQuit]

I posted once before about this issue with an older set of parts. I followed the suggestions in it and after removing norton, the problems went away. I'll post it here in case it helps.

I got a new mobo/proc and now the Bsod demon is back.

New System Specs are:
Z97 Maximus VII Hero
i7 4790k
4x Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz
2x R9 290x gfx card
2x Samsung 840 Pro 128GB on RAID0
1x 3TB HDD

Windows 8.1 update 1

I'm getting random blue screens out of no where. When I got the board, I kept getting SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (ACPI.sys) in a boot loop, but those seem to have gone away. I also now have a DAC attached, but as it uses no drivers I'm not sure if it could be the problem.

Any help would be very much appreciated

 

[kemical]

I decided to read through your thread again as the Event logs weren't helping much and the thought suddenly struck me - when you bought the new parts and fitted them did you do a clean install of windows? Usually it's best to do a clean install whenever fitting something like a new motherboard...

 

[TacticalQuit]

Yes I did.

I havent had any bsods since I took out 2 of the ram sticks, so I'm beginning to think I might actually have been the ram.

 

[kemical]

When you say the system no longer fast boots, how do you know? Is the check box still ticked in the Power options section of the Control panel?

 

[TacticalQuit]

Well. It seems to have fixed itself. And tbh I was judging it unobjectively. When it fastboots, there is no loading circle after the post and it actually booted much faster.

 

[kemical]

Sounds good... How is the system generally? No more bsod?

 

[TacticalQuit]

Doesn't seem like it. I think we fixed the problem. Thanks for helping me with this.

 

[kemical]

Your very welcome.. Post back if need be..

 

[TacticalQuit]

I just want to confirm it was a single faulty memory stick. Since removing it I haven't seen any peculiar behaviour.

 

[kemical]

Thanks for updating Tactical.. Post back if you should need to and best of luck..