My system specs are following:
Cooler Master ATCS 840 Case
Corsair AX1200 Power supply
Asus P5Q Pro Turbo Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU no OC
Corsair XMS2 8GB RAM
XFX Radeon HD 6870 1GB Video Card
Asus Xonar Essence ST Sound Card
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
I decided to make some upgrades to my PC so I purchased a second video card to crossfire it and another 4GB of RAM (I had 4, now I have 8 as shown in my specs). I received those items two days ago, I installed it and then my new problems began.
First, when I installed the crossfire setup I noticed no increase in performance, actually it was a decrease, so I reinstalled the drivers and the Catalyst Profiles. After the required reboot my sound card wouldn't start the device manager showed an error
with that device (Code 10). So I reinstalled the sound card and it's drivers and everything worked again.
Yesterday morning, when I turned on my PC, the videocards weren't sending signal to the monitor. So I tried to turn it on several times, on the 5th or 6th time it finally sent signal to the monitor, and when my desktop appeared I had a BSOD, and again I
didn't have signal to my monitor. So I uninstalled the crossfire and tried with the individual cards and in different ports, nothing worked. And again, in one of many attempts it finally sent signal to the monitor. The same happened again when I left my computer
off for a few hours.
Sometimes when my PC booted correctly I had a few notification of "windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown", all reports were from BSODs. Here are the reports:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 24
BCP1: 00000000001904FB
BCP2: FFFFF8800617E1F8
BCP3: FFFFF8800617DA50
BCP4: FFFFF800024E5A69
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1
Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\102211-31699-01.dmp
C:\Users\Alejandro\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-60887-0.sysdata.xml
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C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt
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Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 50
BCP1: FFFFF88009BFD0B0
BCP2: 0000000000000000
BCP3: FFFFF800028A57DD
BCP4: 0000000000000002
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1
Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\102211-24476-01.dmp
C:\Users\Alejandro\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-48843-0.sysdata.xml
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Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 3b
BCP1: 00000000C000001D
BCP2: FFFFF80002480BC6
BCP3: FFFFF88007E24F60
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1
Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\102311-44023-01.dmp
C:\Users\Alejandro\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-76253-0.sysdata.xml
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Also, in one of the few times that my PC booted up correctly, it asked me to run the "Startup Repair" tool, so I ran it and of course my problem wasn't solved but it showed the following report about the problem:
Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: StartupRepairOffline
Problem Signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 03: unknown
Problem Signature 04: 217
Problem Signature 05: AutoFailover
Problem Signature 06: 1
Problem Signature 07: BadDriver
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
It shows that there is a bad driver, but which could be the bad driver? Perhaps the video card's driver or maybe the motherboards?
I'm starting to think that my motherboard is the issue, since this isn't the first time that I have a hardware problem with this PC, like I show in this thread:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_7-system/random-blue-screen-when-gaming/642c3633-83a4-4faf-bd1b-103d0fa1cded
Today I had to turn my PC on and off for like 7 or 8 times for it to boot properly. Once the PC is on it works great and I have no problems, also I uninstalled the Crossfire setup since I didn't think all the noise and heat was worth it.
Please help me with this, since this is my study, work and entertainment setup and this problem is so annoying that it'ts making me want to throw my PC from the 4th floor.