PSU choice

By rei-install you mean remove the installed ones completely, and then install the latest set?

Prime95 for 9 hrs overnight: top temp 60C (seems removing the dust behind teh freezer pro fan has helped a lot).

SFC in windows found no corruptions which is as close to a reinstall as I can find time for, I really should buy a TB external drive so i'm less annoyed with reinstals. It doesn't help that I only have a win7 upgrade licenses, which makes installing a little more complicated to avoid a phone call to microsoft. (Calling them always makes me feel like they expect I'm cheating them..)

HD Tach later today, I think this one has a maxtor drive or maybe it's the old baracuda.. must check.. but it is an old drive I think..
 
On the GPU drivers, yes uninstall the old and then install the new ones.

Prime is stable which is good and temps look good.
 
I fear this may be the gc. The last two crashes have displayed a white/grey background with a bunch of multicoloured lines across the screen. I'd normally ignore it as just afterwards the blue screen pops up, but most of the blue screens I've seen have just gone to black and then to the blue screen or straight there.

SO it could be GC. I have one I can repalce to test, but the fault is intermitent, and the graphics card was not hot. I want to reseat it. and reinstall the drivers, but other than that... if I could replicate the blue screen reliably I'd be prepared to take my geforce gtx 560ti out of my main machine to test in this one... but it isn't replicatable easily.. :(
 
Could well be the graphics card, I have had similar from a faulty GPU in the past. Is there another GPU you can swap in temporarily to see if it ceases?

e; ahh saw above about you having a 560TI you could put in.

Also I wouldn't get that NZXT PSU mentioned above if it does turn out to be the PSU.

It is a fantastic bit of kit, a great power supply, but if it goes wrong, don't expect any kind of customer service. :p

I'd get a SuperFlower Golden Green HX550 - though it is £10 more.
 
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Acme, dont you work for SuperFlower? ;) I'd probably want a psu that would be sound as I expect I'll be upgrading the main pc in the future, and thus be putting a few more power hungry parts in this one. However, my Seasonic S12 600 (in use since 06) has done brilliantly and I also think I replaced it unecesarily with my Antec Sig 850.

I've never heard of SuperFlower till I got here though, another name to research when it does come to purchases...
 
Haha I do not work for Superflower! :p

However I do often recommend their PSU's because they offer fantastic value for money. They are one of the best OEM's there is, up there with Seasonic and Enermax. They are also the OEM of some of the best EVGA PSU's. :)
 
Sorry to resurect this thread, but my woes continue.

My back up pc has been having fits on blue screen hell.

I thought we had nailed this as the GPU, so I put in my friends Saphire R7 265 as a test and the blue screens appeared to stop.

However, since installing the card and the drivers I have had 2 random blue screen moments.

I have memtested the memory to death, and prime 95 gets no errors, but I still have these random blue screens and now with 2 different cards.

I fear the problem is on the main board. Asus pb5-deluxe, old and very very well used.

I used to lug this system around a lot. Went on many trips in the car and often moved about.

In fact it was shortly after being moved about that these blue screens restarted.

When I seat the graphics card it doesn't lock in place nice and tightly like it does in the new pc. There is a lot of wiggle in the card. Could this all be caused by a slightly damaged pci-E slot?

Any advice on how to pin point the problem more throughly?

I know after so many blue screens I should try to reinstal windows, I'm loathe to do so as it will take so long and I need to thoughly back up the drive first. I have run sfc which found no problems at all!

Any suggestions?
 
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