New (first) Gaming Rig Experiencing Win 10 BSOD

micnuw

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How it goin Tom's

This will be my first post so ill try to make it as straight forward as possible and include all relevant information.

Premise: I have built a new gaming rig this last weekend that has been experiencing BSOD ever since i upgraded to Windows 10. At this point i believe there are a few potential issues. My power supply may be insufficient, Windows 10 is not compatible with my hardware, my CPU is faulty and has a bad memory bank.

Hardware:
Case: Thermaltake Versa N21 Window Mid-Tower Chassis
CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.5GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W
GPU: Sapphire Radeon R9 280 3GB GDDR5 DVI-I/DVI-D/HDMI/DP Dual-X
PSU: Corsair CX Series CX750M 750 Watt ATX Modular
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB KIT (4GBx4) DDR4-2400 PC4-19200
CPU Fan: Cooler Master V8 GTS CPU Cooler
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7,200 RPM SATA III 6Gb/s 3.5
MoBo: GA-X99M-Gaming 5


Background:
Built the computer all the way up and installed the provided drivers. After windows updates and rebooting i went online to get more recent drivers. Everything was working fine for a couple days in Windows 7 but i got blue screened a couple times. After blue screens stopped (drivers were all up to date ad windows 7 was fully up to date) i upgraded to Windows 10. The blue screens had stopped 3 days before i decided to upgrade to Windows 10. After i upgraded the first couple days went fine then i started getting BSOD (whea_uncorrectable_error_). First it was happening only when in gaming, then it started to happen after a little while of using my computer (outside of gaming). I have not made any configuration changes in my BIOS. Please help me with any information you can. I reverted to Windows 7 last night and have yet to test but still, i would like to be on Windows 10 if possible.







 

micnuw

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I continued to get the light blue screen of death with the whea_something_error. I realized that i didnt set the PCIe slot to the slot i put the video card in, i had the video card on PCIe slot 2 instead of 1 where it defaulted to. I have yet to experience any issues since then but i will update if anything changes.
 

micnuw

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Computer crashed again so i have upgraded back to Windows 10 seeing as this doesn't seem to matter if i am in Win7 or Win10. Taking the computer to micro center to get a second set of eyes on the matter and see if they can fix something i missed.