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"newly" built PC freezes, bluescreens.......sometimes
Hey,
I recently refurbished my PC a bit, to accomodate a new graphics card, and speed it up. The only parts remainig from the old pc which ran for 6 years very stable is the RAM, and a mass storage 2TB Hitachi HDD, the case, DVD player and the PSU.
The OS (Windows 10 Pro, student license) is installed on a SSD: Samsung 850 Pro.
During the installation process I got several bluescreens and crashes, but at the third try windows installed nicely - though it continued to give bluescreens.
So I started to troubleshoot myself:
I updated the BIOS with software from the website from MSI, I updated the Chipset drivers with the MSI update-tool, I cleanly installed the Nvidia graphics driver (with beforehand removing everything with driver cleanup in safe mode). The Nvidia driver was a bit quirky, initially it just presented "failer, could not install myself", and canceled the installation, but cleaning up made it possible to install it afterwards, just nicely.
I tested every RAM part each with memtest86 about 10-20 passes each without any errors (all in the same slot on the motherboard).
Samsungs SSD wizard claims that the SSD is fully functioning and healthy.
I ran the Driver verifier for a small amount of time, and it didn't show anything, but I guess I should give it more time.
The system sometimes freezes after about 1 minute, and sometimes continues quite long behaving just normal, enabling me to install windows updates, do online searches and even gaming.
here are the .zip-files generated after two crashes: the earlier one is a freez after a few minutes of running, the second a (new) bluescreen during gaming
Attachment 54631Attachment 54632
the most commong bluescreens (but maybe not exclusive all I got) are:
- Memory Management
- (Driver) IRQL not less or equal
- Page Fault in unpaged area
- Dpc watchdog violation
- Kmode exception not handled
I hope anyone will be able to help a bit, I don't know what to do anymore (except that I will start the driver verifier now, and let it run a few hours, leaving my apartment in a few minutes, so I will report what it did later on).
Kind regards,
EDIT:
what I forgot to mention:
the errorcode of the last bluescreen while gaming: 0x0000361a
I did a system restore once (or I tried) after something crashed. In the process, it claimed not to have worked, giving this error-code: 0x80070002
Nevertheless, after restarting, it claimed to have successfully restored my system - so I don't know what happened.
Additionally, don't know if that's any helpful, the fast access option in the explorer, showing last and most looked at things, as well as presenting the "bibliographies" (Documents, Downloads, Music,...) did work correctly. After I changed the Firefox Download-Folder and changed the automatic saving options of Documents and stuff to my mass storage HDD, there is nothing listed anymore, and if I try adding a Folder to the fast access list, it fails, prompting a message like "E:\ I can not do this" (E is the HDDs Name)
Last edited by Cover; 21 Dec 2015 at 06:52.