win 7 BSOD

jas72 · 24 Jul 2013 at 19:59

Sadly it's decided I now have a hardware failure but the blue screen won't tell me where (or when) it will happen it can happen when I'm gaming or when I'm browsing the net.

I had to disable windows media it was churning the hard drive to bits and using all my memory thought I had it fixed only for it to fail again.

temps are fine everything must be plugged in ok.

Could it be disk failure is that a common cause?

shankly1985 · 24 Jul 2013 at 20:02

My bets on ram, download and burn to disk memtest86 and leave to run over night.
9/10 bsod is damaged ram or not using correct ram timings/voltage.

tribz · 24 Jul 2013 at 20:23

Download whocrashed which will analyse the bsod dump file.

Megahackerd · 25 Jul 2013 at 17:59

jas72 said:
Sadly it's decided I now have a hardware failure but the blue screen won't tell me where (or when) it will happen it can happen when I'm gaming or when I'm browsing the net.

I had to disable windows media it was churning the hard drive to bits and using all my memory thought I had it fixed only for it to fail again.

temps are fine everything must be plugged in ok.

Could it be disk failure is that a common cause?

post on general hardware, as it would get more help

CMOS · 27 Jul 2013 at 10:28

memtest buddy, also try taking out all the memory and recreate the steps using just 1 memory at a time to single out each hardware of possible faults.

jas72 · 3 Aug 2013 at 18:08

RESOLVED : It was my SSD it passes all check disk tests but I had an old version of win 7 on another drive and booted from that it's been working fine since then without any BSOD.

Previously the SSD crashed every hour or two this has been running since this morning

Now do I update the firmware on the SSD or not...

Can a mod move this to the drives forum?

Thanks,

John