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just in the past couple days my computer has just stopped, audio messes up and i have to hold my power button as no keys or my mouse is functional, im not too sure if its coincidence but its always when i have chrome open. also i do still only have 8gb of the generic 'green sticks' of ram.

could any one help please, thanks in advance.
 
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I am currently using i5-4670k and an r9 280x, I have updated all my drivers and a few minutes later (after restarting my pc) it blue screened
 
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Well it said that some software that had been recently installed could have caused it. But when this morning when I turned my of on it could not find my boot drive so I then I tried to change the boot order but searched up the issue and said I had to reinstall Windows. After I had done that I was reinstalling drivers, started to watch something on vlc media player then it blue screened again.
 
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It couldn't find boot drive ?
It sounds like it has forgot settings(bios) or it haven't found the drive at all.
Was the HDD present in bios, when you were changing boot order ?
Run windows memory diagnostic and press F10 and set it on total 5-6 passes, to see if windows will find any memory error.
Open windows explorer press right click on hard drive C:, go to properties=> tools tab=> error checking and check drive for errors.
Have you changed any hardware recently ?
And please check windows event viewer and error logs in there, right after BSOD. To see if it says something.
Also write down every blue screen error.

 
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Yes I saw the hard drive when I was in my bios and it would not boot whatsoever. So I had to reinstall my windows, not a huge issue as most of my things were on my other hard drives. I did the memory check and came up with no errors and also checked errors on my c drive and nothing I have not changed hardware recently. I did get another blue screen which said that "a clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval.

If this is your first time.........blah blah blah

Technical info: ***STOP: 0x00000101 (0x0000000000000031,0x0000000000000000,0xFFFFF88003100180,0x0000000000000001)
 
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Have you overclocked CPU/GPU ? Downlock them if you had.
Are all your temps fine ? You can check using SpeedFan.
How much mhz your ram is ? Try to downclock ram.
This error indicates hardware defect sometimes.
Most of the times its caused by overclocking.
 
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I did overclock my cpu but the downclocked it nearly immediately after.speed fan is showing around 30 degrees while on chrome (idle)
 
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i couldn't get in to my bios as my keyboard was not turning on during start up so i tried many things to get it working again, i then tried to hard reset my bios which ended up completely messing it all up, i had to reinstall windows and i have not had one for like 3 days now! im still going to do a test as i think i may also need new ram, thanks for the help!
 
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