Getting the good old BSOD

Anyone?

I can rule out the PSU, tried my WinPower 750W, which worked, I'm guessing it was the power cable that "died"

I will try each memory stick individually tomorrow when I get the time, at the moment I believe it is either the motherboard or faulty memory.
 
Okay, individually tested both my sticks of ram, in all the slots, and they kept on getting errors, as in each try, I couldn't download the MEMtest86+ because the files would not properly download, so I had to try another one.

So I guess I need to buy some new RAM, but the thing is, I don't know which one to buy?

Supported memory: DDR3 1066/1333/1600/1866/2133/2600+
 
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Another update:

I was playing FM12 and browsing the internet today, and for two hours I recieved now BSOD, and this was after I uninstalled AMD drivers, and installed them again.

I decided to play SWTOR again, and after an hours play, I got a BSOD.

I have WhoCrashed, and it came up with:

On Thu 23/02/2012 13:16:23 GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\022312-23031-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: atikmpag.sys (atikmpag+0x78F0)
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA8006FF54E0, 0xFFFFF8800417F8F0, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmpag.sys
product: AMD driver
company: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
description: AMD multi-vendor Miniport Driver
Bug check description: This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: atikmpag.sys (AMD multi-vendor Miniport Driver, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.).
Google query: atikmpag.sys Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. VIDEO_TDR_ERROR




On Thu 23/02/2012 13:16:23 GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: dxgkrnl.sys (dxgkrnl!TdrResetFromTimeout+0x214)
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA8006FF54E0, 0xFFFFF8800417F8F0, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\dxgkrnl.sys
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: DirectX Graphics Kernel
Bug check description: This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.


I haven't recieved my new RAM yet.
 
The above memory linked is fine, but i would think about getting 8gb ram as it so cheap at the moment.

Bad ram can cause a lot of errors which point you in the wrong direction. Everything pointed to my ssd been dead, after much messing turned out it was the ram :/
 
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