Windows Vista 0x0000007F BSOD

Hi,

Last night I bougth a new thermal paste (OCZ Freeze) and wanted to see if it made any difference in terms of temperature... so I ran some stability tests with Everest (before & after). I usually run stability test for ~ 10mins but in one of the runs I noticed a "hardware error" displayed in Everest. I restarted PC and ran stability test with no issues.

After i stopped stability test I received a klif.sys BSOD. I looked around and this appears to be related to Kapersky (I currently have Kapersky).

To experiment, I booted into "safe mode" and within 2 mins, PC rebooted without giving any error messages. My PC has a history of reseting BIOS settings so I wanted to take pics of BIOS settings just in case. When i went to BIOS, screen would freeze less than 1 minute and I was no longer able to navigate thru BIOS settings... I would repeatedly restart PC to get additional screens but PC still froze while in BIOS settings.

I gave it a rest and this morning i let PC boot to windows and within 2 mins, i got a BSOD but with a different error. This time I got 0x0000007F.

I currently overclock my PC from 3GHz to 3.66GHz. I was reading around and this seems to indicate a bad memory module (I have 2 sticks of 2GB of RAM)or motherboard problem.

If the problem is either RAM or MOBO.... What should i be doing to check which one is the problem ?

Any other suggestions, would be appreciated...

Thanks in advance.

 

Hi Pete,

Yes, I tested each RAM module on and tested. One RAM gave over 2,000 errors and the other gave over 7,000 errors running Memtest+86 v2.01.

I tested 1 RAM on each slot and it appears that I have a bad/dud slot on the MOBO.

Currently in the process of RMA'ing MOBO & memory sticks... argh!!

What is odd to me is to have both RMA sticks going bad at the same time...that seems a bit odd to me...