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Somewhat uncommon BSOD
Hi, I've had these BSODs since my updated build a while back and could never figure out the cause so I'll give this site a shot. The BSODs have tended to be about once or twice a month, though when I was testing set sticks, it's could be a little longer. Recently it's happened a few times this month. Originally I got 2 sets of corsair vengeance ram (4x4 GB) and did a memtest, one of the sticks was faulty so I sent it back, the set I got in return also was faulty so I also had to send that back. I then ran 10+ passes overnight on each stick in different slots which came out clean for all of them. I did redo a memtest a lot later on but that appeared to crash a couple of times when I tried it. I may have tried another version of memtest that I believe showed an error but like I say, it came clean a while ago and after trying to debug it for so long, I gave up since it was a pain not finding anything and the BSODs weren't too common when the system is up over half the day. I have during the time reinstalled windows many times, though keeping some programs on another HDD. I used to use an SSD, but for some reason after updating my GPU, it seemed to corrupt my installation and keep freezing/crashing my system even after several reinstallations of windows so I no longer use it.
I do usually have firefox, chrome, Neverwinter open at the main screen (an MMO), 2 instances of glyph (1 sandboxed, though when the bsods first happened I didn't have it) and sometimes another game running. Though I haven't paid too much attention to temps, I haven't seen any concern. My drivers should be updated and I have tried XMP on and off and also slightly bumping up my ram voltages as suggested in a much older thread on another site with no luck. I do no overclock anything since I didn't feel it was wise if things weren't completely stable. If you can help find the issue then that'd be awesome and appreciated. If not then that's also fine (though it does suck to have felt knowledgeable in computing and never finding a solution to a self build (my 2nd one)). Lastly there's been no common trigger than I've found causing the BSODs.
One annoying thing is that because the BSOD is uncommon, it's also hard to know whether it has actually been solved...