Never ending BSOD with P67A-UD3P

[an6tzz]

Hi all,

I am desperately needing your advice here as I just got my 3xth BSOD in a row and I am waiting to render my animation with the machine:(

BSOD so far are quite random each time I encounter this. Here are the few I can remember:
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
...

I thought it is somehow related to memory, I tried swapping my RAM, plugging in only, in both memory channel 0 and channel 1, but still not working.

This is my PC specs:
Intel i7 2600 (non-K)
P67A-UD3P, BIOS F6
Corsair Vengence 1600 mHz 2 x 4 GB RAM (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9)
Winfast Geforce 8800 GTS (updated to latest nvidia drivers)
Some 300GB harddisk connected to SATA III port (Due to recent Intel 6x chip problem)
Gigabyte 550W PSU
No CD-ROM

Does anyone have a suggestion if I should send the board back to the shop, or it's just user errors?

Continue getting BSOD...

Thanks for any help I might have from you here.

[an6tzz]

The system is on Windows 7 64 bit, and I am getting BSOD no exception on Safe mode, and Startup Repair mode.

I am now booting with only 1 stick of RAM, and the most recent BSOD is IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

It would help a lot if you could give us the stop codes on the BSODs also.

Yes it does sound memory orientated. Have you tried running with just one stick of memory in the first slot. If that still plays up try swapping the modules over and try again.

I would advise running Memtest86+ on each module singularly for at least ten loops. Use this one as it is for the P67 chipset.


Memtest86+ V4.20 Beta 13

.Bin :http://www.memtest.org/download/beta/420b13/mt420b13.bin
.Iso :http://armstrongcomputer.ca/mt420b13-jasonacs.iso

[an6tzz]

Hi Dark Mantis,

Thanks a lot for your help.

Yup currently I am trying with one stick of memory in the first slot (slot 1, channel 0)

It is IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL still.

Stop code:
0x0000000A
(0x0000000000000028,
0x0000000000000002,
0x0000000000000000,
0xFFFFF80002ABE518)

I would try your suggestion and read the links as to what I can do to identify the issues.
(I might not be able to run memtest if it require me to boot into OS)

As a related note, the system was working OK for past 2 days with merely ~ 3 BSOD.

[an6tzz]

I was trying to make memtest a bootable CDROM.

By chance I came across WIndows Memory Diagnostics Tool - Is this something similar to Memtest?
It is running (90% complete) and no problems have been detected yet.

[Dark Mantis]

It is similar but not so good in my mind. You need to run Memtest as I described exactly. No you don't need to boot into the OS to run it.

[an6tzz]

Thanks - Yeah Okay I got Memtest bootable with my Flash drive.

Memtest is running and posted 182 errros already.
The test is still going on I will update again.

[Dark Mantis]

Even one error is too many so you will have to RMA the whole kit as they are matched. There is no point keep running it if it has already thrown up errors. Just check the other module and see if that too is faulty.

[an6tzz]

One of the module remain error-free which is a huge contrary to the first one.

Do you think it has something to do with Motherboard or it just a plain memory manufacturer's defect?

Dark Mantis - thanks to you for helping to identify BSOD issue.
I think I will RMA since it is bought within 7 days.

[an6tzz]

Yes - removing that problematic RAM and I am booting into Windows now no problem.
It was really the faulty RAM that caused the issue.

Many thanks to you, Dark Mantis!

[Odiebo]

I see you found the problem already but as a note to others that are needing Memtest and have a problem with USB booting or lack of USB flash drive, Ubuntu live CD's have the test included. Simply boot off the CD and select memtest+86. As a bonus if memory test good you can then boot linux off the cd and see if your system problems as still pressent in a different OS.

[Dark Mantis]

I am happy to have helped you sort it out and when you get your replacement RAM you should test it first the same way before trying to use it. The memory is good quality but sometimes you just find an unlucky stick that is faulty.

Good advice by Odiebo as well regarding the Linux CD.