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win32k.sys - Blue screen

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Rock God

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Blue screen after blue screen installing Vista!

I kept getting 1 or 2 blue screens earlier (about 15 minutes ago) and one of them said no file and the second blue screen said win32k.sys.

Can anyone help me as to what is causing this?

Much thanks!
 
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We need more information like,what are your specs,did it happen while gaming,moving a file,just out of nowhere,did you check event viewer and see why it happened try running memtest
 
agreed I would love to help we just need you to fill out your specs in the user control panel
 
Try and run memtest. Or remove a stick or 2 or your RAM, depending on how many you have.
If you are seeing the same result, try and repair windows. If that doesn't work, you may have to
reinstall windows.
 
Are you running crossfire or SLI?
 
I ran memtest not long ago and no errors after 3 hours. Running a single watercooled 4870 x2.

Rest of my specifications:

Q9550 4GHz
4GB OCZ Platinum @ 1066MHz
ASUS Rampage Formula
2 OCZ Vertex 120GB's in RAID 0 and a Maxtor 500GB
 
This is a CPU related problem, trust me.

Either your core wants more voltage, or your MHZ are too high. If you have load line calibration on, turn it off. If you have it off, turn it on. Watch your volts. You probably need an additional .02 or so volts.

Update to the latest Rampage Formula Bios from Asus site.
 
Breathless said:
This is a CPU related problem, trust me.

Either your core wants more voltage, or your MHZ are too high. If you have load line calibration on, turn it off. If you have it off, turn it on. Watch your volts. You probably need an additional .02 or so volts.

Update to the latest Rampage Formula Bios from Asus site.
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how will turning LLC off if its on help, it prevents vdroop, so turning it off will lower stability if anything :wtf:

Just a bump on voltage will do fine.
 
When I hit 4GHz, I did run Prime95 for over 2 hours at 1.45V in BIOS (shows 1.43 in CPU-Z), and no errors after 2 hours so I presume the CPU is fine.
 
kyle2020 said:
how will turning LLC off if its on help, it prevents vdroop, so turning it off will lower stability if anything :wtf:

Just a bump on voltage will do fine.
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It seems you are unaware that LLC for many people creates stability problems, even without much of an overclock. For other people, it can get rid of problems. Its a shot in the dark.
 
Rock God said:
When I hit 4GHz, I did run Prime95 for over 2 hours at 1.45V in BIOS (shows 1.43 in CPU-Z), and no errors after 2 hours so I presume the CPU is fine.
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This doesn't matter that you are prime stable for a little while. Prime doesn't indicate overall system stability. I can prime for hours but can't run Company of Heroes in Multiplayer for 20 minutes, and this with no GPU overclock. It doesn't mean much. Play the most demanding games and applications and you will see if your system is stable. For me, scrolling up and down with the mouse in Outlook 2007 will create this BSOD when I am not giving enough vcore.... THE SAME BSOD, even though I could be prime stable for a few hours.

You are seeing a classic sign of low vcore or that you aren't stable at your frequencies.
 
I changed the title because today I installed Vista at least 8 times because as it was on the "Expanding Files" part, blue screen after blue screen. I got really annoyed. I've only started getting these blue screens ever since I set my 2 SSD's in RAID 0 and I only got the blue screens (quite a lot) on during the "Expanding Files" part. Right now. I have installed quite a lot of stuff back on and no blue screen in a while. What I've done it looked at all the blue screens and I've only seen 1 blue screen (that I remember). This:

Multiple IRP Complete Requests

There is another but I do remember the word "PROCESS" in it somewhere at the end. So it was like WORD_WORD_PROCESS_WORD or WORD_WORD_WORD_PROCESS.

The other blue screens didn't say nothing, just "start up in safe mode" or "check to see your hardware is installed properly" etc but thanks for help.
 
Ran memtest earlier and no errors - 1 pass.

No errors in Prime95 either after 3 hours - Temperatures hitting 53c @ 4GHz.
 
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