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This one is for the folks with rigs a couple of months old.

I have been mining with xfx rx470 x6 rig for two months without a days trouble and then today I was blessed with a blue screen of death. Restarted pc, two hours later same thing. Dailed back all the mem overclocks to stock. Put the undervolt back to 0. Two hours later blue screen. Ive done a scan disk, didnt help. Reinstalled drivers. No luck.

It doesn't even restart just freezes on the blue screen.

Im thinking its psu that gets voltage drops on one of the rails. I have 1300 watt platinum antec psu, bought it at hefty R4300 to dodge any psu issues. Please tell me its not my psu, because evetech wont be getting replacements anytime soon.

Any advice on the matter will be much appreciated. Please take note it ran two months beautifully all was well, nothing changed, and then suddenly Im screwed. See attached screenshot
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Thanks man. Read that one. Basically says drivers. My drivers worked fine for two months no problems so yeah. But yea ill format windows next see if that helps. Maybe its my ssd making crap.

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No man... Test SSD with SSDLife... Most BSOd's are driver based. Many ways to diagnose this. Either post link to last 3x BSOd's dumps and I'll run them on my end or run verifier.exe and wait or run sysprep and select generlise , apply, start/run. Then on reboot install all drivers (download them 1st).

Havnt had a software based BSOd take me more then 1.5hours to succesfully resolve for quite some time based on using the sysprep method. Its not the most 'elegent' solution, but it works quick n fast.
 
No man... Test SSD with SSDLife... Most BSOd's are driver based. Many ways to diagnose this. Either post link to last 3x BSOd's dumps and I'll run them on my end or run verifier.exe and wait or run sysprep and select generlise , apply, start/run. Then on reboot install all drivers (download them 1st).

Havnt had a software based BSOd take me more then 1.5hours to succesfully resolve for quite some time based on using the sysprep method. Its not the most 'elegent' solution, but it works quick n fast.
Thanks for the reply. You seem to know allot about this bsod episodes. It was as I expected. I switched out some of my psu rails, Also unloaded rail 1 which was powered the mb power. I have been stable ever since. Seem im get voltage drop on my main mb psu rail. Which sucks because I paid up for this bad boy. I'll close the thread as soon as I get to a desktop.

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Thanks for the reply. You seem to know allot about this bsod episodes. It was as I expected. I switched out some of my psu rails, Also unloaded rail 1 which was powered the mb power. I have been stable ever since. Seem im get voltage drop on my main mb psu rail. Which sucks because I paid up for this bad boy. I'll close the thread as soon as I get to a desktop.

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Pleasure for the reply. Check PSU cable & power source. Never heard of switch out the PSU rails, can you post a link ?
 
Pleasure for the reply. Check PSU cable & power source. Never heard of switch out the PSU rails, can you post a link ?
I just swopped the cables on the rails. Its a modular power supply. Might have been a cable issue, but i doubt it. Since it worked fine for two months. I googled around and people said its probably psu issue, vdrop. Swopped cables and its been working around the clock. Did I get a technical answer to whats the problem. Nope, im guessing. But the rig have been mining around the clock for two weeks now. I'm not going to return the psu now, since evetech will leave me waiting three weeks for a replacement, which means - 160mh mining power. Not good in for ROI. Would have sent you the dump files, but it actually crashed so hard before its not even dumping. Just hangs on the dumping screen.

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I just swopped the cables on the rails. Its a modular power supply. Might have been a cable issue, but i doubt it. Since it worked fine for two months. I googled around and people said its probably psu issue, vdrop. Swopped cables and its been working around the clock. Did I get a technical answer to whats the problem. Nope, im guessing. But the rig have been mining around the clock for two weeks now. I'm not going to return the psu now, since evetech will leave me waiting three weeks for a replacement, which means - 160mh mining power. Not good in for ROI. Would have sent you the dump files, but it actually crashed so hard before its not even dumping. Just hangs on the dumping screen.

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Thanx man. That makes more sense to me. The rails are internal,so a failing rail = failing PSU as far as I understand. Probably like if a car has a failing or bent piston. Failing cable (switching cables has so far resolved issue, therefore cable must have had a break or 'worn down' / defective wiring) is IMOH an auxilary issue, kind of like a bad cap on a mobo (easy and cheap to replace) :)

For future set the dumps to mini dump, those are ~256KB vs full dumps which can go > 1GB. :)
 
I was faceing Clock watchdog timeout Blue Screen error of Death on my windows 10, this bsod was occuring due to overuse of resources and when I google then it was advised to overclock the pc by increasing bit voltage and this worked for me, you can refer to the source below and if this doesn't work for you then you can try other solutions such as resetting overclock settings to default, as mentioned on the below source
clock watchdog timeout windows 10
 
Mining uses a lot of resources of your PC and and hence it migh be crashing by showing showing you Clock watchdog timeout blue screen error of death, but if you still that your pc is healthy enough to weight you are forcing then you must check up all the installed drivers and and update all outdated drivers, especially network and bios deafult settings, or you can even try to overclock by a bit and also try some more solutions listed here and here and check whether it is fixing your issue or not.

Hope this will help your OUT!!!
 
This is good advice.

The quickest way of determining what is the catalyst, of a body is to open the dump file in the MSDebugger which is part of a SDK they provide for free.

Opening the dump using the Debuggers Verbose mode, will show you the offending driver for each dump that you open.

A quick way to update the faulting driver is to use Snappy Driver Installer, select "index for this pc only", and then select the driver that the Debugger flagged.

1st time this might take you 20-30min but after that it's a 5-10min job.

Leave updating the bios until all faulting drivers are done, and you've run verify.exe for 24hours (this tries to force a bsod at the driver level) as it can introduce newer issues.


Mining uses a lot of resources of your PC and and hence it migh be crashing by showing showing you Clock watchdog timeout blue screen error of death, but if you still that your pc is healthy enough to weight you are forcing then you must check up all the installed drivers and and update all outdated drivers, especially network and bios deafult settings, or you can even try to overclock by a bit and also try some more solutions listed here and here and check whether it is fixing your issue or not.

Hope this will help your OUT!!!
 
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