PC BSOD after installing new gpu + PSU to compensate the new GPU

[Aelux5216]

For a R9 290X... it is not... they are hot tempered... in order to keep them silent.

OK now my turn. Try to use single monitor only pull out the TV (that's the actual reason why the card is hotter, Earth dog missed on that)

I have seen a Asus H81 and R9 290 that black screens each 5mins when using dual head and nothing can be done, the card works ok in other boards and vice versa.

Then try to downlclock lower north bridge and ram speed for one step, see if it helps, just do one bit, not everything toghether.

Then... the most lol thing... haven't you checked your SATA cables... had so many random bsods with them...

Last thing is try to reassemble the PC. Reseat the CPU, or just try to run it bare assembled on the desk.

okay i will check the sata cables and if they are fine then how much should i downclock northbridge and ram speed by ? or should i unplug the tv screen before underclocking ? which is it more likely to be ?

 

[EarthDog]

At this point, you need to try things one by one, again, so you know what the cause was.

 

[rtwjunkie]

i did take the ram out its been out since he said to remove it and my manual one states what channels are what nothing else.. and i bought the 8gb first then my friend gave me the 4gb so that fact it was secon hand is why i assumed it would be the 4gb one

Wait, your manual says nothing about which slots to use if you only have two sticks or one stick? Every one that I have encountered does this. That would be helpful to know as well. Anything on their support forum which lays it out?

 

[Aelux5216]

Way too hot was in regards to the CPU.

I didn't mention SATA cables/dual video card because the BSOD code isn't remotely related to such things.

Pulling things apart and putting it back together I like.

This is going to sound really dumb but if i was to take everything apart and put it back together what would that acually achieve since i could easily make sure all the connections are correct without taking it apart as for putting on my desk i feel like everything would just overheat and again i dont get how not having a case would solve anything ?

 

[Aelux5216]

Wait, your manual says nothing about which slots to use if you only have two sticks or one stick? Every one that I have encountered does this. That would be helpful to know as well. Anything on their support forum which lays it out?

well it says that blue and blue are obviously linked and to do dual channel you put them on the same color slot but ther than that not really

 

[EarthDog]

Wait, your manual says nothing about which slots to use if you only have two sticks or one stick? Every one that I have encountered does this. That would be helpful to know as well. Anything on their support forum which lays it out?

Unless I missed it (I looked it up). There is no mention of which slot to put a single stick in....

 

[Aelux5216]

okay so i disconnected the tv screen and it still blue screened, so then i tried the repair install and this time the crash was different since i thought it blue screened again but when i checked the bluescreenview application there was no entries.as for underclocking northbridge and ram i wasnt sure how much to underclock them by so i dint want to make anything worse than it already is.

 

[EarthDog]

NB underclock... say 200-300Mhz

Ram, one 'notch' (multiplier) down.

 

[Aelux5216]

NB underclock... say 200-300Mhz

Ram, one 'notch' (multiplier) down.

it lasted all of last night but then that happened with the other things we've tried as well so im not going to say that its worked or not untill at lest the end of today.

 

[EarthDog]

Still piling on fixes ehh? You won't know what exactly was the problem if you continue that method...

 

[Aelux5216]

Still piling on fixes ehh? You won't know what exactly was the problem if you continue that method...

iv only done the northbridge underclock i havent changed the ram multiplier yet...im waiting for it happen again before i try that..

 

[EarthDog]

Good!

 

[Aelux5216]

Good!

so it bluescreened then i tried lowering the multiplier on the ram and it blue screened with that change as well, i did however notice that the blue screenview software didnt have hal.dll highlighted in red this time in fact nothing was highlighted red but it was still 124 error so im guessing the fact it wasnt red doesnt make any difference.

 

[EarthDog]

At this point, here is what I would do...

1. Physically breakdown and build your PC again...
2. ...using one stick of memory.

If that doesn't work...

3. Reinstall Windows (not a repair install).

Perhaps before that, run memtest86 against your ram and see if it throws errors.

 

[Aelux5216]

At this point, here is what I would do...

1. Physically breakdown and build your PC again...
2. ...using one stick of memory.

If that doesn't work...

3. Reinstall Windows (not a repair install).

Perhaps before that, run memtest86 against your ram and see if it throws errors.

1.what would rebuilding my pc do exactly ?
2.i am still using one stick still
3.i will try that last
i ran memtest against both of my ram before i even started this post i ran it overnight and there was no errors

 

[EarthDog]

1. As was mentioned earlier, something may not be seated right, or grounded properly. A rebuild may take care of those issues.
2. The key here is to contact Gigabyte and ask which slot it should be in... its curious to me that they do not list a single stick configuration.
3. ok.

If memtest is ok, then you should be good on that ram, but I still think its worth it to reach out to Giga support to see which slot it should be in just to eliminate that variable.

I wish you had another PSU laying around and try that.

 

[xvi]

Rebuilding sounds excessive, but the main point is to re-seat all the connectors. As an example, It's not too uncommon for memory to be seated incorrectly. Edit: EarthDog makes another good point, to make sure everything is properly grounded too.

If all this started when the new GPU and PSU were installed, I can think of two things to try. One, having the BSOD cite the hardware abstraction layer, it could be driver/video card related, although typically it would cite an the driver's DLL.
I'd say scrub drivers out and reinstall them. If that doesn't work, try swapping back to the old GPU.

 

[TheMailMan78]

4 pages and no one suggested memtest? I'm disappointed. Normally the monitor could be on F#$KING FIRE and some jackass will suggest running memtest to be sure.

 

[EarthDog]

lol, sarcasm...

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

So the system was running fine before the gpu and psu upgrade right? What gpu and psu did you have in the system before?

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Sounds like windows 7, It happens infrequently to me, i reinstall.

I love this thread

 

[TheMailMan78]

So the system was running fine before the gpu and psu upgrade right? What gpu and psu did you have in the system before?

Doesn't matter. Its the RAM. Its ALWAYS THE RAM. Memtest or bust!

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

I think I read most of this thread and I have not seen any mention of just resetting the bios back to stock and also only running 2 sticks of ram, matched, in the proper slots.

 

[FireFox]

1.what would rebuilding my pc do exactly ?
2.i am still using one stick still
3.i will try that last
i ran memtest against both of my ram before i even started this post i ran it overnight and there was no errors

Maybe this could sound silly,
But try uninstalling the GPU drivers after that restore the pc to 1 day before started to give you the BSOD.

It worked for me time ago.

Edit: uninstall whatever you installed before happened

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Doesn't matter. Its the RAM. Its ALWAYS THE RAM. Memtest or bust!

LOL but the op did say in his first post he ran memtest overnight and the system passed. I actually think it's peanut butter but who knows.