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SKIPPY PB

SKIPPY PB

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I have a PC I put together with mostly random parts I already owned. I run windows 7 pro and get random BSOD, wasn't sure where I should put this thread but figured this might be a good place.

This is basically the rig: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BjyLZ8

It happens most frequently when I am playing a game or the computer is idle but on. However I don't know how relevant that is because 95+% use of the computer is in those two states.


What steps can I take to diagnose the problem here?
 
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atomicWAR

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Likely your PSU. They tend to crash under load when going bad and the old CX units you have are horrible (green writing CX bad, white writing only good). Try running a gaming benchmark like heaven or firestrike? do crashes increase? If yes it is likely your PSU. Other things you can try run ddu in safe mode and see if that helps.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
 
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SKIPPY PB

SKIPPY PB

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I have AIDA64 and it has done a stress test for over an hour with no issues. The PSU usually has the 12v rail sitting at 11.8-11.9 when in use like during the stress test. I don't think the PSU is the main issue not that it cant be. I'll have to check out firestrike and heaven, don't know anything about them.

On one crash upon reboot the PC was looking to check the C drive for whatever it does which I skipped. But this only happened once on this rig I believe. I defragged the disk which was at 8% I believe. I'm thinking it is software related at the moment but it may be a combination of both. I usually try not to update certain things if they work fine and does what I want it too. In the past an nVidia graphics driver update kept making games and my PC crash on a different PC so that might be a problem too.


I did a little more digging and stumbled upon Event Viewer which seems to be pretty helpful. Their are a lot of errors for Apple's windows software (wouldn't be surprised if apple does this on purpose to score the competition.)

I also have a bunch of DNS client error's and DHCP errors. Whatever that turns into.

I believe I did reset or flush my DNS aswell recently.
 
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SKIPPY PB

SKIPPY PB

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I don't have drop box or any of that stuff. And haven't figured out how to upload the dump, however my problem seems to line within the overclock. It what stable before I had it built as a different PC but since then I have broken it down and rebuilt it with a different PSU and other parts in a different case.

I was stable at 4.2ghz on in my In-Winn BP-655 (sp?) case with the 300 watt TFX power supply that case comes with. I now use my old CX430 PSU until I decide to upgrade and have two SSD's and a GTX960 hooked up to it which it didn't have before. I optimized defaults in the bios and put it back to my stock setting and its been ok since. I'm going to go at it again with the tweaking. And see whats up.

I'm planning a CPU, PSU and memory change in the future.
 
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