Blue Screens and Random Restarts constantly

Xenoclysm

Commendable
Mar 6, 2016
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1,510
Hi guys,

I am at my wit's end and I am desperate for help. I recently started working from home on my desktop, it's a few years old. It crashed once on me on a call and so I thought it might be time to do an upgrade. I used the crucial system scanner to find compatible memory, and I bought 8gb worth as well as a Samsung Evo 850 SDD.

I installed both new components and for about a week my pc was running great! Better than ever before. But then for the past 4 or 5 days I have been getting BSOD's randomly, with seemingly different error codes each time. Or the computer will just "restart". Sometimes it will, other times it just goes black. I have tried clean installing Windows 10, I have cleaned out the pc, checked all the wires, I've tried putting the old components back in, I've tried factory resetting my hdd to Windows 7 (I couldn't even get in when I did this, I got into an endless restart cycle), I have tried startup repair. I feel like I have tried everything and I am worried I will lose this new job if I can't fix my pc soon. I have had it for years no issues, and as soon as I need it most I screwed it up. If anyone can help me I would appreciate it so much.
 
Solution
Any unit, in tier 1, or 2, will work. For the money, if you do not care about it being modular, XFX 550w's are a pretty good deal. Depends on location, though.

Xenoclysm

Commendable
Mar 6, 2016
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1,510


Hey sorry for the delay in answering.

Power supply is a Thermaltake 430w, system specs would I be able to upload my dump files or something to give specifics? After reading around here on these forums I downloaded Whocrashed, so I can see what's casing the BSOD'S but I still can't fix it.

To the best of my knowledge it's an HP p6732f (that doesn't have drivers available to download on the hp driver site), 8gb ddr3 1600 kingston hyper x ram, gtx 750 ti videocard, 1tb hard drive, AMD Athlon II X3 445 Processor. I've tried getting drivers for the motherboard, which I think I've determined is a Foxconn 2A92, but I can't find those either. I'm running dual Samsung monitors (though I've tried using just one, still crashes). I can pretty specifically cause a crash by playing a game of heroes of the storm or something, and upon exiting the program it usually crashes right away. Other than that it also just crashes randomly, and I'm kind of surprised I was able to type all this without it doing so.
 

Xenoclysm

Commendable
Mar 6, 2016
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1,510


I'm pretty good with computers but on that note I'm not sure what I'd be looking for. I will Google it though and take a look.
I've been using that psu without issue for a few years now, but I will take that advice and see if I can get a better one for a good price.

 

Xenoclysm

Commendable
Mar 6, 2016
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1,510
So it seems it turned out to be ram placement? I staggered the ram, instead of placing them side by side I put one in a slot, next slot empty, one in that slot then another empty. No more blue screens since! Dunno what that was about but I'm glad it's over.