Need Help!! BSOD!

[Parker]

Ok guys, yesterday I built my new comp, you can click the link in my sig to go to the worklog.

Whenever I try and install a Driver for either the video card or the mobo it BSOD's, infact it doesn't want to install DirectX at all.

I've tried almost everything, reinstalled vista 32-bit twice, tried using another CPU, tried another Video card, tried another set of RAM... still BSOD's. I even tried both of my 500GB drives.
I'm pretty certain that it's the motherboard thats causing the problem.
I've tried just one stick of memory, tried each slot of memory. Tried all three PCIe slots for the video card. But to no avail, I still get BSOD's.
I know it's not the Video card or the RAM or the CPU thats causing the problem. And I'm pretty sure it's not the PSU thats causing problems, I've got all the right connections and more power than needed.

I'm going to try vista one more time and install all the windows updates first, and if that fails then well.... I dunno.
But if I can get all the windows updates installed, then I'm going to start with the mobo drivers, then the video drives and so on and so forth.
If vista still BSOD's then I'm going to try installing XP 32-bit and see if it BSOD's in XP.

Here is the BSOD that I get, it's always the same:


Yesterday I worked on trying to fix this problem from 2:30PM to 10PM....
Do you guys think I should try using an IDE DVD drive and IDE HD?
What do ya'll suggest I do?

[screwballl]

the first one I always install is the chipset.... if something fails there then the first 2 things I check are the power supply and the items installed on the mobo (memory, video, expansion cards, removing extra SATA drives).
Based on your mentions, I would try a different power supply first and if it still does it then it likely is the board itself.

[Parker]

Ok, I'll try that screwball. That would make sense to me... and I've got another PSU I can use.

Edit:
BTW, do these voltages look good to you?

[qazwsx]

The voltages like the rails are nearly always wrong on any sort of BIOS or software. The only way to check them would be with a multimeter. The CPU and ram voltages look like they are set normally but have you tried booting with the ram at 667mhz, 5-5-5-15 timings with 1.8v? may aswell, only a quick change.

[Stormcrow]

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I got this error when trying to overclock my "lovely" ValueRAM, you'll want to make sure you have the RAM timings set to the manufacturer's specs. If so, try one stick at a time and see if you get a POST and then a boot. And with any new RAM purchase, run Memtest for at least an hour to check for potential defective errors. While it seems like a driver error and could possibly be, nForce graphics drivers on my system would constantly crash and bugger-out when the RAM was unstable so that would be the first place I'd suggest checking (it's a problem with the 680i chipset's memory handling).

[Parker]

Originally Posted by qazwsx

The voltages like the rails are nearly always wrong on any sort of BIOS or software. The only way to check them would be with a multimeter. The CPU and ram voltages look like they are set normally but have you tried booting with the ram at 667mhz, 5-5-5-15 timings with 1.8v? may aswell, only a quick change.

Well, the memory's rated timing and voltage is 4-4-4-12 at 2.10v, thats what it says on the sticker of each stick.
But I could try 667Mhz....

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

driver_irql_not_less_or_equal
I got this error when trying to overclock my "lovely" ValueRAM, you'll want to make sure you have the RAM timings set to the manufacturer's specs. If so, try one stick at a time and see if you get a POST and then a boot. And with any new RAM purchase, run Memtest for at least an hour to check for potential defective errors. While it seems like a driver error and could possibly be, nForce graphics drivers on my system would constantly crash and bugger-out when the RAM was unstable so that would be the first place I'd suggest checking (it's a problem with the 680i chipset's memory handling).

Ok, so this does seem like a memory and chipset problem, they don't like each other...
Se we got to get them to work together...

So, I just reinstalled vista, got to the point where I am supposed to make a user account and then it BSOD'd saying something about not being APCI Compliant. What does this mean?

[polobunny]

If it's always this exact error that comes up, with the same file and everything (nvstor.sys), then it's Nvidia drivers for SATA/IDE.
Clean everything and re-install Vista. When installing the NForce driver and they ask you if you want to install the Nvidia IDE SW driver, say NO.
To me, that thing would only install properly half of the time. The other half it would BSOD on me.

[Parker]

Originally Posted by polobunny

If it's always this exact error that comes up, with the same file and everything (nvstor.sys), then it's Nvidia drivers for SATA/IDE.
Clean everything and re-install Vista. When installing the NForce driver and they ask you if you want to install the Nvidia IDE SW driver, say NO.
To me, that thing would only install properly half of the time. The other half it would BSOD on me.

Well it doesn't give me the option to install the IDE SW driver, I click install chipset driver and it ask's if I want to install Mediashield, mediashield I believe is something for RAID, so next time I'm not going to install that.

[qazwsx]

I second stormcrows memtest idea. You might also want to try loading up fail-safe settings in the bios (or your BIOS's equivilent) to make sure that the problem isnt with the settings.

Originally Posted by Parker

APCI Compliant. What does this mean?

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If you meant ACPI, thats what it means, but I dont know how it relates to the problem. Maybe a CPU power management settings problem? (just a guess)

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Parker

Well it doesn't give me the option to install the IDE SW driver, I click install chipset driver and it ask's if I want to install Mediashield, mediashield I believe is something for RAID, so next time I'm not going to install that.

Mediashield is fine, and yes it's something for RAID.