New power supply BSoD?

[ZakO]

Hi all,

My power supply went pop a few days ago, I replaced it but since replacing it the computer has crashed 3 times (BSoD), it had never crashed in the 18+ months previously. The crash dump seems to point to the nVidia driver, but I've tried a different driver (the same driver I ran when it didn't crash before) and formatting the whole computer back to stock Windows 7 x64 but it still happened again.

BUGCHECK_STR:  0x7f_8

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT:  1

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT

PROCESS_NAME:  System

CURRENT_IRQL:  6

LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER:  from fffff80002a70ca9 to fffff80002a71740

STACK_TEXT:  
fffff880`009f0ce8 fffff800`02a70ca9 : 00000000`0000007f 00000000`00000008 00000000`80050031 00000000`000006f8 : nt!KeBugCheckEx
fffff880`009f0cf0 fffff800`02a6f172 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiBugCheckDispatch+0x69
fffff880`009f0e30 fffff880`049cd443 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiDoubleFaultAbort+0xb2
fffff880`033f4fc0 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nvlddmkm+0x1a7443


STACK_COMMAND:  kb

FOLLOWUP_IP: 
nvlddmkm+1a7443
fffff880`049cd443 ff5020          call    qword ptr [rax+20h]

SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX:  3

SYMBOL_NAME:  nvlddmkm+1a7443

FOLLOWUP_NAME:  MachineOwner

MODULE_NAME: nvlddmkm

IMAGE_NAME:  nvlddmkm.sys

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP:  4cb9dd0e

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0x7f_8_nvlddmkm+1a7443

BUCKET_ID:  X64_0x7f_8_nvlddmkm+1a7443

Followup: MachineOwner
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1: kd> lmvm nvlddmkm
start             end                 module name
fffff880`04826000 fffff880`053ffa80   nvlddmkm T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: nvlddmkm.sys
    Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\nvlddmkm.sys
    Image name: nvlddmkm.sys
    Timestamp:        Sat Oct 16 18:12:46 2010 (4CB9DD0E)
    CheckSum:         00BE35D8
    ImageSize:        00BD9A80
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

Any ideas what could be causing it and how I can fix it? Could the power supply blowing up have damaged the graphics card (GTX 260) and now it's dieing a slow death? Thanks in advance for any help.

[MR_Candyman]

Yes, the power supply blowing could have damaged literally anything and everything in the system. This is why we are always so adamant about people getting good quality power supplies

[omganinja]

Yes, the power supply blowing could have damaged literally anything and everything in the system. This is why we are always so adamant about people getting good quality power supplies

Precisely. Start replacing parts until the BSODs stop.

[Hum]

Switch to a different video card.

Otherwise, you may need a new motherboard. :(

[ZakO]

Yes, the power supply blowing could have damaged literally anything and everything in the system. This is why we are always so adamant about people getting good quality power supplies

It was a supposedly high quality Corsair 650W TX. Generally though when I've seen a power supply take out a component it just kills it outright, that was why I wasn't sure.

I'll try a different card anyway, although after searching around I'm not entirely convinced it's not just the nVidia drivers, quite a lot of people seem to be complaining about BSoD when upgrading to the 260.99 (perhaps I didn't remove it properly when I downgraded back to the old one).

[ArKeYa]

Yes, the power supply blowing could have damaged literally anything and everything in the system. This is why we are always so adamant about people getting good quality power supplies

It was a supposedly high quality Corsair 650W TX. I'll try a different card anyway.

I chuckled. :whistle:

[MR_Candyman]

It was a supposedly high quality Corsair 650W TX. Generally though when I've seen a power supply take out a component it just kills it outright, that was why I wasn't sure.

I'll try a different card anyway, although after searching around I'm not entirely convinced it's not just the nVidia drivers, quite a lot of people seem to be complaining about BSoD when upgrading to the 260.99 (perhaps I didn't remove it properly when I downgraded back to the old one).

Unfortunately I know your pain about the Corsair power supplies. I have had 2 HX620s die on me. The first took out 2 sticks of ram and wrecked the motherboard in a very weird way I can't explain. There's just certain tasks that will cause it to restart without even giving a bsod. Thankfully it's a small list of tasks, unfortunately one of them is running pro-tools, something I use all the time and am forced to do with my old machine now. The second blowing thankfully didn't wreck anything. I'm running my second replacement one and I want to get it out of here as quick as possible. I think i'll be going with the same Antec I put in my girl's machine

[ZakO]

A while after posting this I noticed that (in addition to the infrequent seemingly random BSoD's) that anything which stresses the GPU (e.g. games, furmark, etc.) would cause a BSoD after about 30 seconds, same errors as in the dump above.

I swapped the graphics card for an old one I had lying around (nVidia 6200 TC :laugh:) and the issue seemed to dissapear, I put the original card back (GTX 260) and now Furmark has been running without crashes for the last 90 minutes. Could it have been I just knocked/dislodged the card while replacing the PSU and that was causing the crashes, or is that wishful thinking?

[MR_Candyman]

it could be. If it just had a slight connection that would allow it to work unless pushed hard, then it could cause that. Let's hope it keeps working for you