PC Crash Dumping - No idea why?

[HUNTER.P]

This has started happening within the last week and will do so many times throughout the day.

Just crash dumping for now reason that I can see, even if I leave it idling on the desktop a hour or two later it will crash.

But now I am curious if its related to the new clicking noise that I hear every so often coming from what I think is the HDD. This is only used for storing documents, pictures and videos and is not always in use when the crash happens.

How do I go about diagnosing the problem?

 

[Space Monkey]

Is your cpu overclocked? If so try running it at stock.

Does the windows event log show any info about the blue screening?

Take the HDD out for a bit to see if it's causing any issues, you could also run a HDD health check too to see if there are any bad sectors?

 

[stulid]

One idea is that I see you have an M4 SSD, check to see if its suffering from the 5200 powerON hours bug.

 

[HUNTER.P]

Is your cpu overclocked? If so try running it at stock.

Does the windows event log show any info about the blue screening?

Take the HDD out for a bit to see if it's causing any issues, you could also run a HDD health check too to see if there are any bad sectors?

It was running OC'd but I took the OC away months ago as I didnt need it.

One idea is that I see you have an M4 SSD, check to see if its suffering from the 5200 powerON hours bug.

I'll give that a google now.

 

[HUNTER.P]

Does the windows event log show any info about the blue screening??

 

[rids57]

maybe WhoCrashed can help...
http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed