PC Problems. [BSOD]

ChrizZ

ChrizZ

ChrizZ

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Howdy all,

Just to let you know i'm not computer wizz so i need a little bit of help.
So here's the story.

What i bought: "Titan Thor" Intel Core 2 Quad Core Q8400 2.66GHz @ 3.20GHz DDR2 System

I bought my PC Bundle from OCuK about 3 months ago. When it arrived (my day off work) I set it all up with Vista 32bit. I then went and installed CS:S since its my main game, and had a quick test of what the gameplay was like on my new rig.

After about 15 minutes on a DM server i got the BSOD(I wanted write down the numbers that show up on the BSOD, but my PC restarted after 2 seconds on the bluescreen). I was pretty shocked but automaticaly assumed it was my OS(since vista has a bad rep) or Hardware problem.

So i opened up my PC and made sure everything was in nice a tight and nothing was loose. It was all OK. So my next test was to install a diferent OS on it, In the middle of installing XP 32bit I got the BSOD??! So this automaicaly knocked the OS theory out of the window. So i went back vista which thank goodness did not Bluescreen while installing. My next assumption is that it is a bad overclock.

Just to let you know these BSODs aren't a once in a week occurrence. My PC Bluescreens when i start it up, sometimes twice. If im on the PC for about 2 hours it will bluescreen up 4-5 times in that time.

Can someone help me please? Its starting to **** me off now. I don't get much time off work and when i do i don't want to be dealing with bluescreens.

Sorry to be complaining like this but its a 3 month old PC there should not be such problems from it.
 
Could be a driver issue, does vista come up with any driver errors in a small tab on your taskbar ? If so try fixing them.
Do you have any external hard drives? i had a faulty one, un plugging that made my BSOD go away when useing programs on it.

It could just be a tiny mistake in the overclocking whats doing it. I wouldnt know how to fix that. Call overclockers to see.
 
No it none of the above. Its either a bad Overclock or there is something wrong with the GFX Card (which is a GTX 260 btw).
Reason i think its my GFX card is just when im about to bluescreen ingame, my game graphics completely f up. It all just goes dodgy colours and there are artifacts on the screen then it bluescreens.
 
That thor system comes with 2x2gb ram modules right?

I'd try taking one out and running the system for a while, if you get the bsod again, try the other stick.
 
This sounds to me like memory! Try increasing its voltage. Some memory won't run at its "stock" speed without increasing the voltage.

OCZ Gold DDR3-1333MHz for example. I have some of that, default runs at 1066, increasing to 1333 meant i had to up the voltage to the EVP mark of 1.95v. Insane volts for DDR3, i admit. (still applies for DDR2, you can increase the voltage on this sometimes to 2.15 and it'll be fine... check what memory you've got and look at the manufacturers website to find the max voltage you can run)

Either that, or try knocking the Northbridge volts up by one notch. Since the memory controller is on there. This kind of BSOD can often be memory.

I don't know if the option is still there in Vista, but if you go to system properties, advanced, advanced again, one of the options in there has an "automatically restart" tickbox. This stops the PC from restarting on a BSOD automatically. This will let you write down the error before you restart manually.

If you get 'IRQL Not less or equal" or "Page fault in non-paged area" i would put money on a RAM voltage increase being the fix.
 
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