BSOD'S Ram, M/board or cpu??

Bales1983 · 2 Apr 2006 at 09:36

Hi all,

Started to get bsod's about a week ago and they were becoming more frequent so nuked the pc and done a fresh install of xp home sp2.

Its still getting worse i leave my pc on all night and rarely do i switch on the monitor in the morning to find it all running ok. It seems to be fine somedays but as soon as i do anything i get a bsod.

So far i have seen:

Memory_Management
Page fault in non paged area
driver irq not less or equal

Ive run memtest86 for 24 hours straight and no errors whatsoever

So guys im leanign towards either cpu or motherboard now,

Which iis most likely as i dont have any spare to test with and i dont really want to buy both unless i have to!

Im still on socket a so just getting through for a few months until i can afford 939 and dual core.

Thanks for any suggestions as always it is much appreciated

Lee

acharris · 2 Apr 2006 at 11:28

What are the temps like of the CPU and case, as it could be overheating. Also what are the voltages like on the PSU, as it could be caused by a failing PSU.

Also run a scan on the HD as this can cause a BSOD, but most likely from the messages it it either Overheating, PSU or maybe RAM, try a different stick in or run just 1 stick of ram if you have 2, and run prime on the CPU to see if it crashes then.

Anthony

iraiguana · 2 Apr 2006 at 16:13

to test voltages its best to run occt as this gives graphs of the voltage running a full load.

run prime to see if the cpu is falling over fast.

Bales1983 · 2 Apr 2006 at 18:04

The psu is 3 months old, its one of those 480w from overclockers either antec or akasa, its got blue led's and big fan.

Ill try prime on the cpu and see what happens then,

Lee