Help with frequent overnight bluescreens

[Tim Colwill]

Hi guys,

As you may remember from this thread, my wife and I just grabbed two new rigs. Mine is behaving fine, but hers - even though it's 95% identical - is behaving weirdly.

Basically, it will bluescreen overnight maybe four or five times a week. Almost always overnight, usually during the wee hours of 3AM - 6AM. It doesn't bluescreen under heavy load, or during any other time - but overnight, it'll generally just crash out and reboot. It's really weird.

Here's what's in it:

Intel DX79TO Motherboard Retail Box

Intel Core i7 3.6 GHz

G.Skill Ares F3-1600C9Q-16GAO 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 OC 2GB

Western Digital Green 2TB WD20EARX

Corsair HX-650 Power Supply

]Intel 520 Series 240GB SSD

Auzentech X-Raider 7.1 Sound Card

I've cracked it open again to see if there's anything badly connected in there or not seated properly, and I can't find anything. Just to be sure I re-seated the graphics card and ram again, but it hasn't changed anything. I've also had the PSU tested and the voltage is fine.

I'd appreciate any thoughts on what might be causing this, it's not crippling but it's super annoying. I've got crash logs if anyone wants to go over them?

Thanks all!

[Fireslide]

Try swapping out the RAM from your PC to hers and vice versa.

[SuBw00FeR]

It could be something running specifically at those times, such as a defrag or windows update (normally scheduled for those times) could have a look in even viewer to see the time it crashes and what caused it, giving us more info about it too.

And what Fireslide said, change out the RAM see how they both go, but i'm thinking it's something that's scheduled to run at those times, seeing as it's always during those times, maybe a IRQ clash while defragging or something. What's the actual error on the blue screen too?

[Auld]

What is it doing overnight? Just in sleep mode or are you guys night owls?

Is it a hybrid sleep mode? What are the bios power saving settings?

[Fireslide]

I suspect it's a RAM fault. Switching the RAM will test it out. At 3am is when windows defaults to windows updates. Also possible it's trying to hibernate/suspend the contents of RAM to disk and that's causing it to crash if the RAM has faults in it.

[Treloar]

Perhaps the problem is the user, have you considered this

[Werewolph]

If it's Overclocked, try increasing the voltage just a tad. Usually around 3am you'll have windows update running, and also windows defender/security essentials doing it's thing as well.

[Nekosan]

Try swapping out the RAM from your PC to hers and vice versa.

This would be my first thing to check also, sounds like some funky RAM.

[revengous]

why is the computer on 24/7?

[-Slayer-]

Grab this to look at the dump files it's quite good.
http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed/

If you are getting dump files in the WATCHDOG folder as well located here C:\Windows\LiveKernelReports not sure if they just give same info.

You will need to move them too the minidump folder C:\Windows\Minidump to read them.

Free to download.
http://www.resplendence.com/download/wh ... dSetup.exe

[Otto-matic]

Basic copy paste from the error log in event viewer would also be helpful.

If there are suspicions that Windows Update is causing it, what happens if you try to update / check for updates manually?

[drallim]

Yes check the stop error code. It should show up in event viewer (eventvwr.msc), otherwise you can disable automatic reboot here:



Without some sort of error message you're shooting in the dark, it could be just about anything.