Confusing BSOD problem

[Nyt]

Hello there everyone,

 

I'm really stumped with a Blue Screen of Death problem that I keep having so I would really like your advice.

 

For the last couple months my PC has been having a BSOD mainly with any sort of video streaming or video player sites like Youtube.
It seems to BSOD either at the beginning when a video is loading for the first few seconds, or during the time the video is playing.
he issue is odd, because some days I can watch many Youtube vids without any issues and some days I can have 4 or 5 BSOD's in a day with it happening every 2-3 videos.

 

It also seems to BSOD when shutting down Windows on certain days, but a lot less frequently than the Youtube issue - I probably have the shutdown BSOD once a week.

 

Also, the BSOD codes change every time. Sometimes its 1A, sometimes 7E, sometimes 3B, sometimes its says iusb3mon (Intel usb3 driver) caused the BSOD, sometimes it says cmudaxp (ASUS Xonar audio driver) caused the BSOD, sometimes it says Nvlddmkm.sys (Nvidia driver) caused the BSOD and sometimes it only gives codes with letters.

I've done a couple things over the last few weeks to try and fix it but nothing seems to help.

 

1.) I initially had the issue on my 2Tb OS drive. I bought a SSD and formatted the 2Tb HDD. 

I put a fresh install of Windows 7 on the SSD and now use the 2Tb as a storage drive for games.
The issue is still there even with the SSD so the 2Tb is not at fault.

 

2.) For RAM I am running 2x4Gb Corsair Vengeance Pro 2133Mhz 1.5V with 2x4Gb Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400Mhz 1.65V.
I had them both set to 2400MHz with the slower timings of the 2400MHz RAM and 1.65V and it runs fine in gaming.
I thought that perhaps the 1.5V RAM being overclocked and overvolted was causing the issue so I removed the 2x4Gb 2133MHz 1.5V RAM and ran with only the 2x4Gb Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400MHz 1.65V at its rated stock specs and that still did not get rid of the issue.

 

3.) I also overclocked my CPU and GPU, so I set both those back down to stock clocks and it didn't solve anything as the BSOD was still there.

 

4.) I uninstalled the Intel USB3 driver and the issue was still there.

 

5.) I normally install all my drivers from the motherboard CD. Since the BSOD occured with those older drivers, I decided to uninstall all the old ones and installed all the newest drivers for my Maximus VI Hero from the ASUS site and that didn't solve anything either.

 

6.) I also thought it might be an issue with Chrome on my system, so I uninstalled that and installed Mozilla Firefox instead but the issue was still there.

 

 

I'm really stumped with this one, especially since it never occurs in gaming. So... Any advice ?
I was thinking to perhaps run with 1 stick of RAM at 1333MHz and see if that perhaps helps ?
Or run my onboard GPU on my 4770K to rule out any unlikely but possible GTX980 issues ?

[KillaCam]

I recently had a very similar issue with my system.  Random BSOD's when web surfing, but never while gaming.  Banged my head against the wall for a while and did pretty much everything you did.  I finally ran memtest on each individual RAM stick.  Turned out one of them was bad.  Random BSOD's that you can't reproduce are hard to troubleshoot.  Memtest would be an easy next step.

[Boinker]

I am having a similar issue night. Mine however is only gadget loading on startup and the system freezing when shutting down. Does not matter what I set things too. I'm going to try a hard drive here soon as some of my files turned up corrupt. However for you it's either the bios maybe or the board. Especially with the random errors going on.

 

Just ran memtest86 for a few hours (posted on the phone) And it passed through once without failure so I called it good. Im going to lean towards the software now.

 

And it's overclocking time.

[Nyt]

After days of troubleshooting I am finally free of this issue.

 

It turned out to be the ASUS Xonar DSX soundcard driver. I uninstalled it and installed a UniXonar audio driver, which is a modded driver for all ASUS soundcards, and it runs great !

 

Sometimes a simple thing can cause so many headaches...