PC constantly blue screens

rosenaaron

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Specs:
Amd Phenom II x4 965 BE
TA87OU3+ T-series bioSTAR motherboard
NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 550 ti
650 watt ULTRA PSU
SanDisk 128 GB SSD

So I boot up my computer a couple days ago and I get to the log in and it freezes and a blue screen pops up saying: "your PC has run into an error and has to restart." After the restart it did the same thing. I figured since there was a power outage a couple days before while the computer was running that is what maybe corrupted my OS (win 8.1). I took my important files off of the SanDisk SSD and moved them onto my extra old computer for the time being and formatted my drive as NTFS or whatever it's called. I then put the SSD back into the computer and got my win 8 installation disc and I tried to install windows but it froze at loading and other times it randomly blue screened after a while. I got to the point where I can install it and when I did the screen and mouse froze at 70%. I tried again and again and still nothing it would just freeze or blue screen. The blue screen was so quick I can't tell what the error was but it had something to do with "not handled," along those lines. I even booted from another different win 8 disc and a Linux USB, nothing worked, for Linux it said Linux had encountered a fatal error and the screen froze. So do I get a new SSD, motherboard or what? I thought maybe it was a loose SATA cable coming loos during the installation or something or the motherboard was a little fried but I can access BIOS on it so idk, what do i need to do?
 

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Short answer: have some ballistix sport low profile ddr3 1333 mHz or something,

Long answer: was using 1 4gb stick in the furthest slot from cpu, now as I'm writing this I have a stick in slot 1 and slot 3, I was using it in the furthest slot because I wasn't getting anything on the display so the ram in the furthest worked for that but now it's showing stuff on the display with 8gb slot 1 and 3. Idk if its confusing or not idk.
EDIT: with the ram in slot 1 and 3 I am actually installing windows at this point and it hasn't crashed so far, maybe this is the reason for the crash, idk, keeping my fingers crossed!
 

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All this waitin and I fricken fixed it myself. All you have to do if you get crashes while installing an OS is you need 2 sticks in the mb instead of 1, at least that is what worked for me. Sorry for wasting y'all time but I'm excited to get my computer running again! Thanks Outlander sparking my mind to think it was the ram. Props sir.