Is my hardware dying???

wingnuttzz · 22 Jul 2010 at 12:06

Problems appeared to start last night, for the first time since getting my overclock on my i7 920 sorted I had a BSOD while playing GTA4. I thought strange but assumed it was the overclock and therefore went into the BIOS and put everything back to a save profile i'd made with everything at standard. That worked fine for the remainder of my GTA4 gaming session.

PC was powered off over night, and after turning it on this morning, I left it idling in windows while I got a coffee etc, came back and it BSOD on me. Now everytime i try to boot into windows it BSOD while trying to load windows. Can go into safemood, but as soon as I try and do anything it BSOD

I'm running Memtest at the moment

Will post an update

Be good to hear any inputs though, bit lost

Thanks Grant

Tealc · 22 Jul 2010 at 12:14

Could be a windows problem I suppose.

I also wonder if it's a speedstep issue. Should be easy to rule this out by deactivating the feature in BIOS.

wingnuttzz · 22 Jul 2010 at 13:00

Memtest done, 2015232 errors

Tealc · 22 Jul 2010 at 13:03

Ooh. Memory it is then.

Any idea which stick it is?

wilko49 · 22 Jul 2010 at 14:23

ouch... rma time then

mrtckane · 22 Jul 2010 at 14:24

try seperate sticks, might as well keep any that aren't dead so you can at least use the basic functions of the pc while you wait.

wingnuttzz · 22 Jul 2010 at 15:35

Realyl confused now, ran the test again (didn't change anything in the BIOS or anything) and it passed. Ran primre95 for about half an hour in windows and it was fine and jsut done about an hour and a half of GTA4...

welshdragon · 22 Jul 2010 at 17:12

mrtckane said:
try seperate sticks, might as well keep any that aren't dead so you can at least use the basic functions of the pc while you wait.

Assuming they come as a tri-channel set don't you ahve to send all of them back as a rule?

My faulty mobo showed my memory as having errors when it didn't....

wingnuttzz · 22 Jul 2010 at 20:18

I'm assuming if i did have to RMA the Ram since it was bought as a kit it would all have to go back?

Hope my motherboard isn't faulty, cost me a fortune, got it as soon as they were released...
I guess if it is, the same thing is going to happen in the future.

Will probably leave it running prime95 tomorrow while i'm work...

AMG · 22 Jul 2010 at 20:59

what does the bsod say?

on the top lines and stop it from restarting I m on vista so I m guessing its a little different in terms of menus on win 7 as I ve only set up wireless on 7 unless its on that setting already. If its general one than it may well be a software issue problem is what is the cause

as far as I m aware for RAM the whole lot has to go back, but I m guessing you can make a note to them of which appears faulty