BSoD with BIONIC, n00b needs help

Elfindel · December 23, 2015

Just installed BIONIC and started the Astroids@home project. Started light with 50% CPU time and 50% of CPUs. Left most other settings at stock and let it rip. It works for about 20 minutes then it blue screens on me.

Note I'm running a 5820K on water cooling with a 4.5GHz OC that is rock stable on overnight stress tests and a stock GTX980 (also water cooled). 16GB of DDR4 on an ASRock x99 motherboard and a 480GB SSD round out the core system. I regularly play Witcher 3 on this system and have had zero issues since settling in on the OC when I built it 9 months ago.

Also, I disabled BIONIC and ran several stress tests, memory tests, and GPU tests over the course of this past week with no issues at all. But when I turned BIONIC back on, BSoD after less than half an hour.

I feel like I'm missing something in the settings that is obvious and being a n00b to this stuff, I'm missing it.

I have attached a screen shot of the Asteroids@home computer preferences page for reference.

Any help would be appreciated.

The Cool n00B · December 23, 2015

I feel like this title is directed at me.

Turn down your OC. Even if it survives stress tests, it might not be stable in real world applications. I overclocked my CPU and it survived stress tests but didn't survive BF4, just BSODs.

Imakuni · December 23, 2015

Started light with 50% CPU time and 50% of CPUs.

For starter's, I recommend NOT using the "CPU Time" option. With a 50% setting, it'll just run the app for 1s, then stop for 1s, then run it again for the next second, and so on.... that's really not very good. Just leave it at 100% all the time.

Note I'm running a 5820K on water cooling with a 4.5GHz OC that is "rock stable" on overnight stress tests and a stock GTX980 (also water cooled).

No it's not.

You just found out yourself, your current overclock is NOT rock stable. It might be stable for the stress tests you tried, but clearly there's an app which uses your CPU in such a manner that the instability shows up. Things like that happen.

As an example, I can leave my CPU at 4.4 and it would never BSOD. Yet, tasks were being declared invalid, even without a single crash. On the other hand, I was playing with my cache and running it at 4.3 would cause me a BSOD once every few days; yet, multiple different tasks validated no problem.

Another example: I always thought my GPU was *rock stable* at 1505mhz. No matter the stress test, no matter the boinc project, the thing ran for MONTHS without a problem........ until Primegrid released a newer app, which worked much better than the previous one. Guess what: now I'm forced to stick to a "punny" 1430mhz, instead of my "rock stable" OC.

As said above, either reduce the speeds, increase the voltage or remove your OC altogether to fix it.

Oh, and one more thing: welcome to the "Had to back off my OC thx to Distributed Computing projects" club. We hope you enjoy our services, even though you probably didn't request them

Elfindel · December 24, 2015

Thanks guys. I figured with Witcher 3 and stress tests being all good, I should be fine for BIONIC. Guess i need to "settle" for a 33% OC instead of my 36% OC. I'll also tweak my settings to 100% CPU time.

I'm happy to be in the club, and more happy to know it's not just me.

Thanks again!