- Apr 11, 2015
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Hey everyone,
I just built a Mini-ITX system for my wife's work PC. We were trying to keep it relatively cheap but still have reasonable performance, and she's often using Photoshop, for example, in her work.
Here are the components we used:
Overall my wife is VERY happy with this computer. It's many times faster than what she had before (Windows 8.1 Pro boots in 3 seconds, Photoshop very quickly, etc.).
The problem is, it has been blue screened a couple times in the first few days of operation. The first time, she just had a few tabs open in Chrome, doing nothing (she was on her phone), and got a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT error on the blue screen. The next day, with two Chrome tabs open, one playing a YouTube video, it blue screened with the error SYSTEM_PTE_MISUSE.
Obviously there's some hardware problem here. Could be a bad stick of RAM, or under-powered PSU, or badly seated RAM, or overheating PSU.
My current plan, if I don't hear anything from you guys, is to open it up and make sure all the hardware is connected nicely, then run memtest86, and probably also plug it in to a Kill-A-Watt to see if it's possibly using a high amount of power, which would indicate the CPU is under-powered. I'll also see if I can find a free tool to monitor the CPU temp while running Windows and doing some intensive tasks to see if it might be getting hot.
What steps would you recommend to diagnose what the problem is here and solve it? Or is there something obvious that stands out to you?
Thanks!
I just built a Mini-ITX system for my wife's work PC. We were trying to keep it relatively cheap but still have reasonable performance, and she's often using Photoshop, for example, in her work.
Here are the components we used:
■ Case+PSU: In Win BP655, 200 W PSU (Haswell ready)
■ Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-H97N-WIFI
■ CPU+CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 Haswell, Intel HD Graphics 4600
■ RAM: Team Elite 8 GB DDR3 1600
■ Storage: Silicon Power S60, 120 GB SATA III SSD
Overall my wife is VERY happy with this computer. It's many times faster than what she had before (Windows 8.1 Pro boots in 3 seconds, Photoshop very quickly, etc.).
The problem is, it has been blue screened a couple times in the first few days of operation. The first time, she just had a few tabs open in Chrome, doing nothing (she was on her phone), and got a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT error on the blue screen. The next day, with two Chrome tabs open, one playing a YouTube video, it blue screened with the error SYSTEM_PTE_MISUSE.
Obviously there's some hardware problem here. Could be a bad stick of RAM, or under-powered PSU, or badly seated RAM, or overheating PSU.
My current plan, if I don't hear anything from you guys, is to open it up and make sure all the hardware is connected nicely, then run memtest86, and probably also plug it in to a Kill-A-Watt to see if it's possibly using a high amount of power, which would indicate the CPU is under-powered. I'll also see if I can find a free tool to monitor the CPU temp while running Windows and doing some intensive tasks to see if it might be getting hot.
What steps would you recommend to diagnose what the problem is here and solve it? Or is there something obvious that stands out to you?
Thanks!
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