• Re: BSODs on C2SEA (was Re: Supermicro C2SEA problems with Windows 7)

    From Mike S@21:1/5 to Bolwerk on Tue Jan 11 02:16:46 2022
    XPost: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard, alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.supermicro, alt.comp.pheriphs.mainboard.supermicro
    XPost: alt.windows7.general

    On 7/2/2010 8:50 AM, Bolwerk wrote:
    Bolwerk wrote:
    Gene E. Bloch wrote:
    Some motherboards require special Windows drivers (or at least that was
    true for me a few years ago). You might have to check into that at the
    manufacturer's site.

    As I recall, Windows provides an opportunity to install drivers during
    installation of the OS - which might not be what you want to do. If
    there
    are drivers needed, and if you're lucky, the manufacturer might tell you >>> how to install them without reinstalling Windows.

    Well, I've had some success.  It's definitely a BIOS problem.  I mass
    disabled some BIOS features.  I'll see if I can isolate what the
    problem was and report back.

    It looks like having Core Multi-Processing enabled in the BIOS was the show-stopper for Windows.  So I am able to get back into Windows again.

    I'm still getting blue screens.  They're much less frequent (every few hours, instead of a few times an hour).  I'm not sure what the culprit
    is.  It seems upgrading the video driver improved things, but daily
    BSODs is still a bit much.

    Anybody have any ideas?  Memory?

    Thanks!

    Char Jackson mentioned Hiram's Boot Disk with a memory test program in a previous message, another option is an Ubuntu Linux Live CD, which comes
    with Memtest86+, also you can download and run the utility (free)
    cpuburn to stress test the CPU.

    https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16666/diagnose-hardware-problems-with-an-ubuntu-live-cd/

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