But wouldn't it be a very unlikely coincidence for the hardware I've been using for years to fail immediately after I upgrade my motherboard/CPU/boot drive/PSU/CPU cooler/GPU?
For a part yes, but it is possible.
I flashed my BIOS to the latest version a while back and made sure that all of the drivers on my motherboard manufacturer's site are updated. I believe my BIOS is configured OK - I can go in and take some pictures if that would be helpful.
Isn't necessary, if you say it is I won't judge.
I got a new type of blue screen error since my last post. I had a fullscreen game running and a video open (but paused) - this combination is usually what causes my crashes, but sometimes it happens when I'm just watching a video or just playing a game. Anyway, I wasn't using the computer for a little while and it turned off the displays to save power. When I went back to wake it up a while later, the displays turned on to reveal a blue screen with a "Video Scheduler Internal Error". I ran the dm log collector again and attached the new file to this post.
Of course, a crash related to the graphics.
For now, please uninstall
everything of Nvidia using
Display Driver Uninstaller and install new drivers from
Nvidia
I've run memtest again and it didn't find any errors running overnight. However, when I use escape to try to stop the test, it says it's halting but never stops. This happens whether I've been running memtest for 8 hours or 5 minutes. I waited ~10 minutes for it to stop, I will repeat this test and try giving it a few hours to stop to see if that changes anything. Here is a picture I took of what I see when I tell it to halt:
https://i.imgur.com/wbUaFLC.jpg The "CPU: 0123" and "CPUs Active: 1" parts looked promising to me - could this suggest a CPU failure?
Thank you very much for the assistance!
You have a quad-core CPU, where the 2nd core is active, nothing special.
I noticed
Code:
STACK_TEXT:
ffffd001`a80cbdf8 fffff803`39641213 : 00000000`00000124 00000000`00000000 ffffe001`a1bca028 00000000`be000000 : nt!KeBugCheckEx
ffffd001`a80cbe00 fffff803`3983ad59 : 00000000`00000001 ffffe001`9a5c8480 ffffe001`9a5c8480 ffffe001`a1bca028 : hal!HalBugCheckSystem+0xcf
ffffd001`a80cbe40 fffff803`396416a0 : 00000000`00000728 00000000`00000003 ffffd001`a80cc230 00000000`00000000 : nt!WheaReportHwError+0x22d
ffffd001`a80cbea0 fffff803`39641a0d : ffffe001`00000010 ffffe001`9a5c8480 ffffd001`a80cc048 ffffe001`9a5c8480 : hal!HalpMcaReportError+0x50
ffffd001`a80cbff0 fffff803`396418f8 : ffffe001`9a5c7d50 00000000`00000001 00000000`00000003 00000000`00000000 : hal!HalpMceHandlerCore+0xe1
ffffd001`a80cc040 fffff803`39641b42 : 00000000`00000008 00000000`00000001 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : hal!HalpMceHandler+0xe4
ffffd001`a80cc080 fffff803`39641ccf : ffffe001`9a5c7d50 ffffd001`a80cc2b0 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : hal!HalpMceHandlerWithRendezvous+0xce
ffffd001`a80cc0b0 fffff803`397d43bb : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : hal!HalHandleMcheck+0x40
ffffd001`a80cc0e0 fffff803`397d4171 : 00000000`00000000 fffff803`397d40f2 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KxMcheckAbort+0x7b
ffffd001`a80cc220 fffff801`b9696214 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiMcheckAbort+0x171
ffffd001`a80d78e8 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : [COLOR=#FF0000]intelppm[/COLOR]!MWaitIdle+0x18
The intelppm is the Intel CPU driver.
Code:
1: kd> lmvm intelppm
start end module name
fffff801`24b3d000 fffff801`24b5b000 intelppm (pdb symbols) d:\symbols\intelppm.pdb\79BC4E9098AA405EBFB8ADC3ACDACCE01\intelppm.pdb
Loaded symbol image file: intelppm.sys
Mapped memory image file: d:\symbols\intelppm.sys\5215CFEB1e000\intelppm.sys
Image path: \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\intelppm.sys
Image name: intelppm.sys
Timestamp: [COLOR=#FF0000]Thu Aug 22 10:46:35 2013[/COLOR] (5215CFEB)
CheckSum: 00026EA5
ImageSize: 0001E000
File version: 6.3.9600.16384
Product version: 6.3.9600.16384
File flags: 0 (Mask 3F)
File OS: 40004 NT Win32
File type: 3.7 Driver
File date: 00000000.00000000
Translations: 0409.04b0
CompanyName: Microsoft Corporation
ProductName: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
InternalName: intelppm.sys
OriginalFilename: intelppm.sys
ProductVersion: 6.3.9600.16384
FileVersion: 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623)
FileDescription: Processor Device Driver
LegalCopyright: © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Please check Intel for driver updates
Driver Reference Table - intelppm.sys
Some new symptoms have come up - hopefully they will help narrow down what needs fixing.
3 days ago, I turned my desktop computer on but all of the displays were black when it should have shown the login screen. The monitors weren't showing that there was no input, they were just black, from both graphics cards. The motherboard graphics shown during startup and the windows loading screen showed up fine, but once the OS started there was nothing. I restarted the computer and it worked normally for the rest of the day (without ever being turned off).
The next day, the same thing happened. When I restarted the computer, all of my monitors except for my primary monitor showed the background color for the password screen, but the primary just said something like "video input not supported". I turned the monitor off and on again and it worked normally for the rest of the day.
Today, I went through the same thing of turning it on, all screens are black, then restarting. This time when I restarted I could move the mouse, but it lagged and I could not click on anything, After a minute, I got a blue screen saying "critical process died" and it asked me to wait while it made a report but it never went beyond 0%. I restarted and was able to use it normally. I appeared to have been logged out of some programs by the crash and I had to reauthorize my computer to access the program Steam.
I then tried to do a clean installation of my video drivers as you suggested. I booted into safe mode, ran the uninstaller program, rebooted normally, then installed the drivers. After installation it asked me to restart the computer, but when I did all screens are black. This time, rebooting does not fix the problem. I can boot into safe mode and the display will show up, but now there's no way for me to use the drivers and not get a black screen.
I ran the intel driver update utility and the only drivers it told me to update were a LAN driver and one for a wireless internet card I have.
So, right now I'm thinking that the problem is either:
A) something is incredibly wrong with my OS and I should try formatting my boot drive and reinstalling it
B) something is wrong with one of my graphics cards (probably the new one) and I need to RMA them
Any advice on how to proceed before I start mailing parts back and wiping drives? My computer becoming unusable is probably for the best tonight, I have a 10 page paper to write and Fallout 4 distracting me.
Also, I've attached a new BSOD report file that I took before uninstalling the video drivers.
Thanks for the help!