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Please help! Random restarts and shutdowns.

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September 21, 2014 5:16:20 PM

I bought a PC 1.5 years ago and I've been having random shutdowns and restarts since, sometimes only few times a week, sometimes close to 20 restarts/shutdowns a day. I'm sick and tired and I really can't afford a new one. Now the thing is, I recently found out that my FX-8150 is not compatible with my mobo (GIGABYTE 970A-D3). The mobo supports FX-series up to FX-8120, but not 8150 so I'm guessing it's the mobos fault. I recently formatted my windows 8.1 to put win 7 back on and now I'm experiencing sh**loads of restarts a day and even shutdowns which happen very rarely. Sometimes I get random BSODs too, such as PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. And when I had win 8.1, I experienced these weird blue screens, which were like this http://puu.sh/bIGD2/a00acec822.jpg but in bsod-blue. So what should I do for these restarts? Is it because of the mobo and CPU?

FX-8150
Gigabyte 970A-D3
CLUB3D Radeon HD 6950 2GB DDR5
Kingston 1333Mhz 2x4GB
Chieftec 600W 14CS
Hitachi 1TB 7200RPM Sata 3

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September 21, 2014 5:21:22 PM

Firstly, update your BIOS, that will fix the comparability problem. Its available on the gigabyte support website.

Second if the problems continue it looks like memory errors. These are caused by either heat, power or bad ram. Make sure cooling is OK first check your temps and see if you can replicate a crash by doing a certain task or workload like prime95

It could be that PSU though, I don't think its very good
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September 22, 2014 6:34:06 AM

Gigabyte hasn't released any BIOS updates since 5th of september 2013. They released a beta BIOS in december 2013, but I dont really want to install the beta version.

Also I've had these errors on BSODs too over the year (but not lately):
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL; BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER; KMOD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED; SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

And still, what do you think about the mobo and CPU thing? Are there any programs or things I can do to make sure what's causing this?
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September 22, 2014 6:57:28 AM

But the funny thing about this is, over the past 1.5 years it has restarted only 3 times while gaming, it almost never restarts while im playing some games (which is a good thing)
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September 22, 2014 12:30:04 PM

Okay, after formatting and reinstalling windows, I've had these random freezes i.e. google chrome crashes for 10-15 seconds, and then works perfectly again. I opened my task manager and watched the physical memory usage history when i noticed that it shows total RAM 4077 mb (but i have 8gb ram) so i opened properties and it shows that i have 6 gbs of ram with 3.98 gb usable. I dont even know how it is possible that i have 6 gigs because i have 2x4gb rams.

UPDATE: I pulled out one RAM stick to see if my PC works better then and it hasn't restarted yet and everything seems smooth so far. I dont know if I even bother to test the other one right now, because I'm enjoying my PC at the moment :love: 
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September 24, 2014 5:29:58 PM

Both RAMs seem to work fine by windows memory diagnostic...I just played GTA IV for 8 hours straight and no restarts, and right when I close the game, the system restarts...and even few more times after that. Anyone got any ideas about what's wrong with this PC?
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September 24, 2014 5:38:53 PM

What set of KIngston DRAM? the model #
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September 24, 2014 6:15:45 PM

Try them at 1333, 9-9-9-27, 1.55
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September 27, 2014 6:57:56 AM

Well I tried them at 9-9-9-27, but 1.5, because they were set on something other than 1.50, 1.52 or something like that. But the PC restarted before I could write this, so I set them on 1.55 and we'll see what happens. But I'm starting to think that it's not RAM's fault, it's something else...but I don't know what.
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