Blue Screen On Boot And Freezing...?

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Dr0n3

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SOLVED MY PROBLEM! Sata HD was running as Native IDE and it was causing unstability. It is now running in AHCI and everything works perfectly and the computer is much faster than before. I hope this topic helps someone else!

Specs:
RAIDMAX Ares ATX-801WB Black SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
COOLER MASTER eXtreme Power Plus RS-500-PCAR-A3 500W ATX12V V2.3 Power Supply
GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3GHz Socket AM2+ 95W Quad-Core Processor Model HD960ZWCGDBOX
G.SKILL 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL6D-4GBNQ
Seagate ST3640323AS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
GIGABYTE GV-R465-1GI Radeon HD 4650 1GB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
SHARP 32" 16:9 6ms 720p LCD HDTV LC-32SB24U
Link Depot 6 ft. Ultra HDMI 1.3 Version cable Model LD-HDMI1.3-6
LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model GH22NS30
Logitech Cordless Desktop EX 100 Black RF Wireless Standard Keyboard and Mouse


Ok, so my desktop is about 9 months old and everything was assembled and purchased by myself. I've always had problems with it freezing randomly. Most of the time it will freeze during video playback, sometimes it will freeze upon startup, sometimes it will go the whole day without freezing, but that is very rare. I've checked everything and done everything I know how to do. I've checked all my ram for errors, ive checked the HD for errors, ive tried running with each individual stick of ram, I've tried numerous versions of windows/linux, and numerous other little things to no avail. I'm leaning towards it being my video card. Today I tried to play poker with ultimate bets application and it freezes within minutes every single time I get started. Booted in safe mode and tried playing, same thing frozen immediately. I got a blue screen boot with physical mem dump earlier today as well. I was running vista 64 ultimate and I'm now running windows 7 64 ultimate with a fresh install. It took almost an hour and half for windows 7 to install as well...i think there is a big underlying issues as my computer doesn't perform as fast as i feel it should...just my 2 cents though. I have no idea how to even figure out what the source of my problem is...any advice will be greatly appreciated.
 
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Borrow a video card and if that don't solve the problem then most likely its a motherboard issue. Have you check the event viewer to see if there anything listed in there letting you know what the problem could be?
 
I just induced a crash and here are all the errors/criticals that occured at the time of the crash from the Event Viewer.

Level Date & Time Source Event ID Task Category
Error 1/14/2010 8:51:07 PM atikmdag 43029 DAL
Display is not active

Error 1/14/2010 8:51:07 PM atikmdag 52236 CPLIB
CPLIB :: General - Invalid Parameter

Error 1/14/2010 8:51:09 PM Eventlog 1101 Event processing
Audit events have been dropped by the transport. 0

Critical 1/14/2010 8:51:01 PM Kernel-Power 41 (63)
The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.

Error 1/14/2010 8:51:08 PM EventLog 6008 None
The previous system shutdown at 8:48:38 PM on ‎1/‎14/‎2010 was unexpected.
 
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Dr0n3 said:
I just induced a crash and here are all the errors/criticals that occured at the time of the crash from the Event Viewer.

Level Date & Time Source Event ID Task Category
Error 1/14/2010 8:51:07 PM atikmdag 43029 DAL
Display is not active

Error 1/14/2010 8:51:07 PM atikmdag 52236 CPLIB
CPLIB :: General - Invalid Parameter

Error 1/14/2010 8:51:09 PM Eventlog 1101 Event processing
Audit events have been dropped by the transport. 0

Critical 1/14/2010 8:51:01 PM Kernel-Power 41 (63)
The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.

Error 1/14/2010 8:51:08 PM EventLog 6008 None
The previous system shutdown at 8:48:38 PM on ‎1/‎14/‎2010 was unexpected.
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That would mean defective PSU. But as john said, looks like a video card issue.
 
Fixed

I finally fixed it!!!! I believe this topic will help others as well.

I swapped out all of my peripherals to no avail. There was nothing wrong with the componenets of my computer.

My hard drive and dvd drive are sata and they were running as Native IDE in bios. I changed the setting to AHCI and reinstalled windows 7 and it installed literally 4 times faster than before. Everything works perfectly now and my computer is running like it should in the past. From what I read running sata drives in ide shouldn't have caused this issue, but it did for me. I hope someone else can learn from this topic.
 
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