Whea uncorrectable blue screen error

[makz3l]

I tried overclocking my CPU, i5 8600k, using Asus' EZ tuner. It made some changes to my CPU settings. After that, I ran Aida64 for about 40 minutes and my temperature never went higher than 65. I thought I got a stable OC so I played Battlefield 1 at Ultra and 1440p to see if it really was stable. After 15 minutes of gameplay, my computer froze so I hit the reset button on my computer case. After booting up to the desktop, I would get an WHEA Uncorrectable blue screen error. I tried resetting my bios settings to remove the overclock but I would still get the error. Increasing the CPU's core voltage to 1.2 seemed to help but it would still give me the error but after around 30 minutes of use. I tried monitoring my CPU's temp and it never went higher than 50 before it crashed. Does this sound like a hardware problem? Could it be my PSU or CPU? My PSU has 650w and is bronze. I've never had this problem before. 

[Wh0_Am_1]

3 minutes ago, makz3l said:

I tried overclocking my CPU, i5 8600k, using Asus' EZ tuner. It made some changes to my CPU settings. After that, I ran Aida64 for about 40 minutes and my temperature never went higher than 65. I thought I got a stable OC so I played Battlefield 1 at Ultra and 1440p to see if it really was stable. After 15 minutes of gameplay, my computer froze so I hit the reset button on my computer case. After booting up to the desktop, I would get an WHEA Uncorrectable blue screen error. I tried resetting my bios settings to remove the overclock but I would still get the error. Increasing the CPU's core voltage to 1.2 seemed to help but it would still give me the error but after around 30 minutes of use. I tried monitoring my CPU's temp and it never went higher than 50 before it crashed. Does this sound like a hardware problem? Could it be my PSU or CPU? My PSU has 650w and is bronze. I've never had this problem before. 

This sounds like an unstable OC.

[makz3l]

1 minute ago, Wh0_Am_1 said:

This sounds like an unstable OC.

I would still get the error after removing the overclock.

[Skiiwee29]

3 minutes ago, makz3l said:

I would still get the error after removing the overclock.

If you still get it after removing the OC, then next logical step is the RAM. Go download Memtest86 and run a few passes on it (It will take between 1-2hrs per pass on average so this is a time consuming task)

[Wh0_Am_1]

1 minute ago, makz3l said:

I would still get the error after removing the overclock.

Did you mess around at all with any other components clock speeds, such as the RAM? If the answer is no then I would reinstall windows to rule out any corrupted programs, and unstable setting and then reattempt. To diagnose and recommend any other issues we would need more data, such as specs of the entire PC, altered settings and etc. 

[makz3l]

@Skiiwee29 I'll try that and get back with you. Thanks.

@Wh0_Am_1 I actually just re-installed Windows 10 and it would still give me the error. I didn't mess with my other component's settings.
 

PC specs.

i5-8600k

2x8 DDR4 RAM

630w bronze PSU

Sandisk Plus SSD

GTX 1080

Z370i motherboard

Edited July 9, 2018 by makz3l

[Jurrunio]

Reset CMOS maybe?

[makz3l]

So I just checked the dump file and found out that hal.dll, pshed.dll, and ntoskrnl.dll are causing the problems. I did the Intel Processor Diagnostic Test and it passed everything. Tried running Prime95 for a couple hours and the temp never went higher than 80c. 

[Ace McPlane]

22 hours ago, makz3l said:

So I just checked the dump file and found out that hal.dll, pshed.dll, and ntoskrnl.dll are causing the problems. I did the Intel Processor Diagnostic Test and it passed everything. Tried running Prime95 for a couple hours and the temp never went higher than 80c. 

Did you try clearing the CMOS like Jurrunio suggested?

This will make absolutely sure you're resetting everything to stock settings.

 

Just shut down your computer, unplug it, pull that little watch battery out of the motherboard, wait about 30 seconds and put it back in,

Then plug in and boot up again.

 

FYI, 40 minutes of Aida64 is not enough. I wouldn't trust anything less than a 24 hour stress test with Aida. Even then it may not turn up everything like unexpected shutdown errors that'll happen. I usually find myself increasing the voltage for my overclocks by about 0.005 to 0.01 even after passing a 24 hour Aida64 stress test to get perfect stability.

 

 

[makz3l]

On 7/10/2018 at 10:18 AM, stateofpsychosis said:

Did you try clearing the CMOS like Jurrunio suggested?

This will make absolutely sure you're resetting everything to stock settings.

 

Just shut down your computer, unplug it, pull that little watch battery out of the motherboard, wait about 30 seconds and put it back in,

Then plug in and boot up again.

 

FYI, 40 minutes of Aida64 is not enough. I wouldn't trust anything less than a 24 hour stress test with Aida. Even then it may not turn up everything like unexpected shutdown errors that'll happen. I usually find myself increasing the voltage for my overclocks by about 0.005 to 0.01 even after passing a 24 hour Aida64 stress test to get perfect stability.

 

 

I cleared my CMOS. Was able to play Diablo 3 for about an hour and do some other tasks until it crashed again. I guess I have to replace my CPU.

 

 

[Ace McPlane]

14 hours ago, makz3l said:

I cleared my CMOS. Was able to play Diablo 3 for about an hour and do some other tasks until it crashed again. I guess I have to replace my CPU.

 

 

Don't assume that yet.

Since your temps are still far away from 80 degrees, try increasing your CPU vcore voltage a bit more.

Increasing it the first time improved things a little so let's see where we can get with that.

Keep increasing it by tiny amounts like 0.01 or 0.005 at a time and testing/checking temps.

Don't exceed 80 degrees and make sure you're testing for at least 20 minutes with Aida64 after each increase.