Hi!
In autumn 2011 I replaced my mainboard, RAM and CPU because the system I had up until then kept throwing BSODs in my face. Everything was rock solid for about 1 year, including after when I installed Windows 8 on October 30 (been running the various Win8 preview releases before that).
Until some time in late December, the BSODs started happening on my new system, too. There was no driver update (by me or Windows update) even close to the time it started again and it has been getting worse ever since. Yesterday I restored my system partition from a backup because I had 4 BSODs in 3 hours, but I had another one just an hour or two ago.
I have a lingering suspicion that this Creative Labs X-Fi card could have something to do with it (it really was a crash-fest when Win7 came out), but I don't know how to debug this problem.
In autumn 2011 I replaced my mainboard, RAM and CPU because the system I had up until then kept throwing BSODs in my face. Everything was rock solid for about 1 year, including after when I installed Windows 8 on October 30 (been running the various Win8 preview releases before that).
Until some time in late December, the BSODs started happening on my new system, too. There was no driver update (by me or Windows update) even close to the time it started again and it has been getting worse ever since. Yesterday I restored my system partition from a backup because I had 4 BSODs in 3 hours, but I had another one just an hour or two ago.
I have a lingering suspicion that this Creative Labs X-Fi card could have something to do with it (it really was a crash-fest when Win7 came out), but I don't know how to debug this problem.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Professional
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Custom
- CPU
- Phenom X6 1100T
- Motherboard
- Asus Crosshair V
- Memory
- G.Skill 16384 MiB (quad set)
- Graphics Card(s)
- Asus GeForce 460 GTX
- Sound Card
- Realtek ALC889 (alias SupremeFX X-Fi 2)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Samsung 24" and Samsung 20"
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080 and 1600x1200
- Hard Drives
- Intel X25 SSD 180 GiB
2xWD 640 GiB used for AMD-chipset RAID 1 (mirroring)
- PSU
- EnerMax Liberty 500W
- Case
- LianLi PC-70
- Cooling
- AquaComputer water cooler
- Keyboard
- Microsoft
- Mouse
- Logitech G9x
- Internet Speed
- 3 Mbit down / 512 Kbit up