is my Cpu causing BSOD?

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Rynks

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Hey all im having a problem with my computer lately im having alot of BSOD.
I think the time the BSOD came was with the new Cpu,
at first few month i ran fine but all of a sudden i was getting BSOD and freezes left and right.
The bsod are at random sometimes its at desktop some times when gaming,
other times i can go a day without BSOD next day i get 4 in a row in 5 hours.

Mem test gave some errors on 1 Ram so bought 2 new ones (needed replacement anyways)
but the problem is still there.

Memtested the new ram still errors+ freeze.
Prime95 freezes even on ''small fft'' (On this mode some cores stop working)
reinstalled windows.
rested cmos a while ago.

MB: Asrock 870 Extreme3 R2.0 With 1.8 bios
Cpu: Amd fx-8350
Ram : DDR3 1600 2x8GB Kingston KHX16C9P1K2/16
Vcard: radeon hd 6950

Im at an end i dont know what it is (english btw isnt my first lang so sorry)

Thanks in advanced all

 
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I'm not saying CPU's don't ever become faulty but in my experience CPU's generally are the most reliable component in the machine. It is more likely to be your motherboard. If you are getting errors in memtest even with new RAM it sounds like it could be your board rather than your RAM. Try removing all RAM except one stick and run memtest and see if you get an error. Then try each stick individually, basically what you want to try is each stick in different RAM slots on your board. The memory error can be caused not just by the RAM stick itself but also by the interface on your motherboard.
 
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What is your Power Supply ?
 
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Ohter than using memtest to see if your ram is faulty. There is not to many motherboards that can actually handle an FX 8 core CPU. There has been cases where people are putting 9590's and 8350's in older or cheaper or just not good enough quality motherboard and the CPU will draw so much power and ther MB cannot deliver it in a way that does not damage the board or CPU. Aslo a Bad Power Supply can cause damage to a CPU that uses more power due to overclocking or just the high TDP of the FX 8350. other than that BSOD will happen to em and I have no idea how to replicate it.
 
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Rynks

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So just did 8 memtest pretty much in 7 mins (test 7) i get errors.
but i also did the same with my old RAM i doubt they are all broken.

i did a multi-core memtest i take i have to do this ?
So would that pretty much mean my MOBO is broken?

The last BSOD was this one but sometimes its another one

This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x75BC0)
Bugcheck code: 0x101 (0x19, 0x0, 0xFFFFF88003117180, 0x6)
Error: CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT
file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation

This was probably caused by the following module: hal.dll (hal!HalReturnToFirmware+0xB2D)
Bugcheck code: 0x101 (0x19, 0x0, 0xFFFFF88003117180, 0x6)
Error: CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT
file path: C:\Windows\system32\hal.dll
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: Hardware Abstraction Layer DLL
 
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Ok, so I am having exactly the same thing happen to me, except mine is a new build only a few weeks old.
I tried re-installing windows and tried updating drivers. I have had problems trying to read the crash dumps, so some help on that would be great.

I know I ran my cpu way over safe temps by mistake for several hours of gaming at a time. This is because my temp monitor was showing my package temps, not core temps. :(

This leads me to believe that it's the cpu and possibly the motherboard socket.

CPU: Amd Fx-6300 @3.5ghz(4.1ghz on turbo)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
RAM: Corsair Veneance 8Gb (2x4Gb) 1600mhz
GPU: EVGA GTX 750ti 2Gb
PSU: OCZ 650w

Thanks for your help! :)
 
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Any time I've encountered flaky RAM and/or a misbehaving motherboard I clear the BIOS (by unplugging the AC cord to the power supply and also removing the CMOS battery if necessary).

If that doesn't resolve the problem then I'll temporarily remove all unnecessary expansion cards and disconnect all unneeded hard drives and peripherals and then use a process of elimination to troubleshoot the issue.

For you Windows users, employing an Ubuntu install DVD's memory testing feature can provide a 2nd opinion.

Spare power supplies, motherboards and RAM etc are worth hoarding for these occasions.

On a related note: I nearly threw away two 500GB PATA hard drives a couple of years ago because SMART was reporting that they had 'bad blocks'. Quite by accident I later discovered that this problem disappeared after I gave them new partition maps.
 
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