No failed windows updates.
I tried to run cinebench and it quit and from previous experience with this build I downclocked to 4.6 and lowered my vcore and ran it again and it ran through fine.I dont see why my overclock failed after a clean install.It was working fine (stable) before that at 4.7ghz.It ran all benchmarks and games without fail.Im really at my wits end with this build.I have tried updating drivers,got another 680,installed geforce experence,did clean installs of drivers,etc,etc...I love everything about this MVF as it does everthing well, except gaming.Im assuming the BSOD was from the OC as it seems fine now but........Im afraid I am going to have to try a different board and if the graphics problen goes away I will know the cause.If not then I will have to sell the board,proc,memory and the DH-14 and just go back to my old rig.

PS. where do I find the scandisk program.?I dont see it anywhere in the control panel.

Can you upload the minidump somewhere so I can take a look at it?

http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed

Can be useful with BSOD's. There's a free home version.

Hey fbm211.. sorry you are still having problems.

Did you install Windows with the machine OCd? or did you install at stock and then OC (this latter of course being the way to go) and did it install and update all service packs etc. (the service pack line above says "0_0")

If your OC is showing problems then it is not stable. Instability can mean stable for everything but showing quirks in one or two things and usually gets worse as you go along. If your CPU likes 4.6 then OC to there....each CPU will usually try and tell you what is the sweet spot.

I would suggest that you have a corrupted OS, and that unless your OC is rock solid one should not install OS will overclocked.

Send your dump on to Nodens and he will have a look.

Im not sure how to or where to upload the dmp file.I dont have a program to open it either.
My bad.I did the install with machine OCed.I will do it again later today after resetting bios to optimized defaults.

perhaps sending the file to Nodens as an email attachment would work.

After examining the dumpfile in the debugger I can tell you that it's a crash on directx. It's failure to read from a memory address in Video RAM.

This points to these possible culprits in order of probability:

1) Windows installation corruption (run sfc /scannow in command prompt see if it reports any errors), Graphics driver issue, faulty graphics card or PSU issue.
2) RAM issue.

Should not be overclocking related unless unstable overclock has corrupted your windows installation or your RAM is unstable (memtest it to be sure).
It could also be related to overclocking the video card if you are doing it. Lastly check for GPU temperature while you're playing the game. 🙂

I ran that win7 version of scandisk (check disc) and it reported everything fine.
My gpu temps stay below 65c under load.No OC.
Maybe my psu is not up to snuff. I am running SLI now and I do have 8 fans running.
However, all that can be easily fixed......My main concern is my graphics anomaly that is not just skyrim related..sadly.
I will do another clean win instal this afternoon. I will run memtest first though.
Thank you all so much for the help..