Brother's PC is crashing

Greavesy

Greavesy

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I built my Brothers PC around Christmas and it was running fine but it started to blue screen when he tries to play games or watch films, it now pretty much just blue screens whenever it wants.

Il put up some photos of the blue screens when it next occurs (Shouldn't be to long :rolleyes: )

Any Ideas on where to start looking would be much appreciated :)
 
Trying to find a full list of specs but some box's have been misplaced >.>

I5-2300
4gb DDR3 1600mhz
500gb sata II HDD ( I think its a Hitachi Deskstar)
HIS ATI 6850
**B Grade** Gigabyte H67M-UD2H-B3 Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 (MB-329-GI)
BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W '80 Plus' Power Supply
No overclocking and standard cooler.
 
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i would put a good bet on it over heating in this weather , playing games and stock cooler is not a good combo

if your case can take it get one of these cooler master

but post your bsod and maybe download core temp and just let us know your temps , but i would recommend the cooler anyways long as it can fit, those stock coolers are terrible
 
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Probably the heat is in this weather. I usually fold but in the current climate have turned it off as the PC would be working too hard. No folding for me until I get my system under water.
 
Unfortunately it started to crash before this lovely weather :/
Il check the error codes now and post up what i find :)
 
Took a while :p but...
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Download Ultimatebootcd and burn to disk.

Boot from that and you have diagnostic tools to test the RAM, CPU, HDD etc etc. This removes the OS and any driver issues out of the equation for now. I'd start with the RAM, do one stick at a time. The Deskstar HDDs earned the nickname "DeathStars" for being unreliable so that could be an issue.

You'll just have to work your way through it piece by piece....welcome to troubleshooting hell ;)
 
Im going to a BBQ to make the most of this weather, hopefully it will have run a couple of passes by the time i get back, Il post the results up later. Then tomorrow il get to work with that ultimatebooted.

Cheers for the speedy replies guys :)
 
Back from holiday and starting ultimate boot, i'd be lying if I said I knew what half the options are. Any of them that i should check first?
 
I dont really want to take my pc apart to fix his, as selfish as that sounds xD
Memtest, cpu stability test and DirectX diagnostic tool all came back with no errors.

However the diagnosis tool for his HDD (which is actually a WD ) came back with an error 0008 which according to their website is a failure in SMART analysis or something and the drive should be replaced. The pc literally crashed whenever he'd play games/ watch videos online but was fine watching videos from hard drive which is why I think there's still another issue.
 
If you are getting errors with the the HDD I would look at replacing it while it is still under warranty. I wouldn't want to risk a HDD failure and potential loss of data. (Sod's Law and all this will probably happen just after the warranty ends)
 
SMART is there to check the health of the drive, if you have a SMART failure you should backup your data immediately to avoid data loss.

It's not a case of IF the drive will fail it is WHEN.

You should RMA the drive.
 
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