New computer, constant crashing at games and random programs

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Mojito_UK

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Hi all,

I just built a new gaming PC with second hand parts off the equivalent of Craig List of France (Leboncoin). Specs below.

I have installed Windows 7 SP1, updated all the drivers, installed catalyst 14.9 and installed all the updates for W7.

Yet for some reason both games I have tried to run have crashed (Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon and This War of Ours). Windows explorer sometimes crashes and so does chrome. I got a BSOD the other day, the culprit was win32k.sys.

I checked if it was the GPU that was bad by running furmark quickly on the 1080 preset. It worked flawlessly.

I'm currently checking the RAM with memtest86 v4.3.7

Does anyone have an idea to what might be going wrong? I'm kind of gutted.

Specs:
OS = Windows 7 64bit
CPU = i5 2500k Stock
Mobo = Asus P8P67
RAM = Corsair Vengeance DDR3 8Gb
GPU = AMD Sapphire Dual-X R9 280x
PSU = Corsair GS600
SSD = Samsung Evo 840 256Gb (OS installed)
HDD = Seagate 500Gb (Storage)
 
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Well then it's time to find out the PSU is the problem, if possible get burrowed another one (powerful enough for your GPU), otherwise try it with a weaker PSU with your iGPU, thing is to get that CPU pass the stress test without issues.
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Mojito_UK

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Thanks for the reply Radikal. I made a quick run using IntelBurnTest before crashing the program and manage to get a few glances at temps. It went from a 30°C idle to 45-50°C in a few seconds before the program crashed (don't know why).

Since then, I shut down the computer and the thing refuses to turn on when I press the power button. The only way to get the PC to react is to unplug the pwer cord, then put in back in. But the only thing it does is power on for a few secs then powers down. No beeps, no bios, nothing on screen.

I'm getting a strong feeling it's the PSU because I do remember me GPU displaying some artifacts on screen when my PC was running wierdly. To add to the reasons that it might be the PSU, I do remember see an arc (like a short circuit) IN the PSU on one of the coils (I think). And that is NOT supposed to happen.
 
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Well then it's time to find out the PSU is the problem, if possible get burrowed another one (powerful enough for your GPU), otherwise try it with a weaker PSU with your iGPU, thing is to get that CPU pass the stress test without issues.
 
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