My first pc build has had random blue screens for about 2 years

James_128

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Okay so i prob. Shoud have posted this problem a while ago, anyways so it all started when i bought computer parts to build a new computer. The only thing i didnt have in it that was new was some ram( ill post all specs at the bottom) after i buit the computer it ran smooth for a while, and one day it just blue screened, knowing this is a problem, i kinda just shrugged it off as it didnt happen for a little while. Than it happened again, and than it kept blue screening very often. Frusterated about this i took off what i could from the hard drive and decided to reformat the hard drive and have a fresh install of windows. For a while the comouter ran smoothly, and once again the same thing happned, it just kept blue screening. So i decided to to return the hard drive assuming it was the problem. I got a return and than bought a seagate 2TB SSHD, and the same thing happened with that one too, i installed windows on it and it ran smooth for i would say, about a year.
Than the same thing happened again, it blue screened, i realized the problem migjt not ne the hard drive but i was a little bit ignorant and blamed the hard drive again. I once again reformatted my hard drive, and reinstslled windows. It worked for,a while untill BAM. The hard drive would not stop blue screening as soon as it boot up, than it wouldnt boot up at all.
(Also in this time i tested my ram which i didnt complete but i completed most of the test and i had no errors.)
So i asked my friend if i could barrow his hard drive and for about 3 months it was working fine until once again, recently i got a blue screen. So being stupid as usuall i bought an ssd, installed windows on it and 15 mins after windows installed it blue screened lol.

I can offically say i dont think after 3 hard drives and a brand new ssd, the problem isnt the drives, so i really need someones insight on what they think it may be. I at least plan on testing the graphics card and ram a help of a friend, if its the motherboard im gunna be so mad XD. Please help me i have lost so much data that i cant replace.

SPECS

Motherboard: asus Z-87A

Processor: intel core i5 4670k

Power supply: corsair enthusiast series TX650M

RAM: corsair vengence 8GB 1600mHz
DDR3

Graphics: asus gtx 760 ti

And just incase

Cpu cooler: corsair h100i

Let me know if im missing any other specs that need to be posted.

 
Solution
Seems like a driver issue,but you can still check the following,

Do you have the latest bios? = Version 2103
Is XMP enabled for the ram? Needs to be done in the bios as well.Look under the overclock settings->AI tweaker->AI overclock tuner->set to XMP.

Mark_1970

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could be a driver conflict or hardware conflict. Windows may produce a dump file on the bluescreen, need to take a look at that, found in C:windows/minidump. post this here and we will take a look
 

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Seems like a driver issue,but you can still check the following,

Do you have the latest bios? = Version 2103
Is XMP enabled for the ram? Needs to be done in the bios as well.Look under the overclock settings->AI tweaker->AI overclock tuner->set to XMP.
 
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James_128

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So the computer is no longer blue screening but rather explorer is crashing, so i used the first ram stick, and explorer crashed within 2 minutes. I replaced it with the other stick of ram and so far it hasnt crashed yet, i managed to installed some drivers, and im working to installed all of them and im gunna try to use windows diaignostics tool to test the stick of ram, if the computer blue screens i will how will i get a screen shot of it?
 

bailojustin

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Download memtest86 and run it to test your ram. For the time being can you go to start, computer, windows, Dumps, look for your crash dump files, then put them in a .rar or .zip if you want and post them online so I can see it, this will let me debug the dump and find what drivers are causing issues so you can fix this.
 

James_128

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Okay so i downloaded the latest bios and updated the bios and it fixed everything! I cant believe it was that easy, although i still have ti test the computer, it seems super stable now, never got any crash or BSOD since, ill give an update a little later on.