Quote Originally Posted by Grnfinger View Post
been running my 8400 for almost 2weeks with no problems

last 2 days I'm getting BSOD "IRQL not less or equal to" on a cold boot only, and have made NO changes to my setup. Once the pc heats up this goes away and it never happens the rest of the day. If however I turn the pc off for an extended period of time, when I start it up again the BSOD is back.
What exactly is this error, I have adjusted FSBT volts and upped my ram volts, is there anything I should be looking at?
I updated Intel Matrix Storage
Any help/advice would be appreceiated
My E6850 was very stable at 3.9 (orthos 15hrs plus), but I ran it at 4.0 (orthos stable for 6-9 hrs then usually fail). I could do anything for weeks at a time, but eventually start getting BSOD's or reboots. Reinstalling windows from a fresh image (3 minutes) would solve problem, but in time would get other problems. At 3.9, never crashed once.

Yesterday my E8400 was being a little flaky I thought, but then ran memtest on my 6 month old corsair PC8500 and got 12 errors halfway into first pass. I am running my memory faster with E8400, and thus was getting more errors since my memory is going bad (stock settings fills page with errors).

Your running two components on the edge, ram and cpu, either one could over time corrupt windows if unstable, or windows may not be corrupted, your system may just be unstable.

Granted could be other things, but if me, I would
1) run memtest, newest version for 3-5 passes. If errors, back down mem speed/timings, and try again.
2) If memory ok, I would back down OC to 4.2, get orthos stable 12hrs., and try. If still problems, reinstall windows and leave on stable settings for a while and try (windows can get corrupted from crashes from unstable settings).
3) the best OCing software I ever bought was backup imaging software. Fixes all software BSOD's in 3minutes (fresh reinstall of OS and all prgrams)