Over the weekend while at a friend's place, his computer started to BSOD like crazy on Windows 8 while never repeating the same error message. After many a CHKDSK, driver cleaning and updates, the problem persisted. Google'ing the errors usually led us to the conclusion that it was driver based in some form. We checked a couple of the bug reports and they once pointed to a mouse driver and once to memory.
After running memtest through several passes on several sticks and even replacing the sticks with mine, no problems were found and the problem still persisted.
We decided to reinstall Windows 8 from scratch and everything was cool for a couple of hours during which we played a game of Civilization V. As soon as the game was over, BSOD. This computer has been running Windows 8 without ever a single problem since January until last Saturday morning it all came crashing down.
The hardware is:
i7 930
Asus Rampage III Gene
Sapphire 5830
Kingston 2x3GB @1333MHz
Seagate 750GB @7200RPM
Some of the BSOD Error messages were:
Driver IRQL not less or equal
Etempt to execute non execute
Pool Corruption in file area
Systems Service Exception
Quota Under Flow
Any help or advice on the subject would be greatly appreciated, I know there is a plethora of highly intelligent people here.