I have been plagued by my sister's main desktop since the bugger has born(last year).
Spec are following
e6550
gigabyte p45-DSLR
1st set ram: corsair xms2 6400-4gb, 2nd set ram: corsair xms 6400-4gb(see below)
500gb wd16-aaks
asus 8800gt (and also swapped with 9600gso)
antec EW 380w
The issue is the computer will random BSOD. I've gone thru so many mini dump and search but unable to pinpoint, reinstall windows and using different driver and does nto help. I finally took it to a local computer store(they hold that computer warrenty). They pinpoint it's a damaged ram module and sent back to corsair, I bought a new ram at the same time..... they stick it in... and the bsod still exist.
I then went thru another hdd, another set of video card and the problem still exist. The bsod wasn't frequent and my sister refuse to let me dice up the computer anymore because she is a heavy user.
Earlier this week the computer went dangerously slow and it was bsod when idle(never happend before). She finally gave in and asked me to rip the whole computer apart and buy new parts:
i5 750(I HUNGER.... I only use a e8400 :shok
4gb ripjaw
gigabyte p55 matx mobo
I am planning to sell the cpu mobo and ram(throwing away that psu since I have a tx650 on standby). However I need to figure out which exact part is causing the problem. I did multiple ram test and it was cleared, I thought it was the hdd giving up because windows file/dir loading is very slow, but when I put it in my comp for xfer it was working like a champ, hd tune was showing no bad sector in full test and benchmark was showing accepable result.
So now I am really down to psu or mobo, most component in the mobo is working fine(I do not see particular fault). And at the moment I am eyeing on a psu issue(if a psu is failing shouldn't it be rebooting instead of bsod?)
Also should I attempt to put the new psu in? if the fault is at mobo could it possibly damage the psu?
comments and suggestions are greatly apprecieated! (I am losing stupid ppd to this! :blarg
Spec are following
e6550
gigabyte p45-DSLR
1st set ram: corsair xms2 6400-4gb, 2nd set ram: corsair xms 6400-4gb(see below)
500gb wd16-aaks
asus 8800gt (and also swapped with 9600gso)
antec EW 380w
The issue is the computer will random BSOD. I've gone thru so many mini dump and search but unable to pinpoint, reinstall windows and using different driver and does nto help. I finally took it to a local computer store(they hold that computer warrenty). They pinpoint it's a damaged ram module and sent back to corsair, I bought a new ram at the same time..... they stick it in... and the bsod still exist.
I then went thru another hdd, another set of video card and the problem still exist. The bsod wasn't frequent and my sister refuse to let me dice up the computer anymore because she is a heavy user.
Earlier this week the computer went dangerously slow and it was bsod when idle(never happend before). She finally gave in and asked me to rip the whole computer apart and buy new parts:
i5 750(I HUNGER.... I only use a e8400 :shok
4gb ripjaw
gigabyte p55 matx mobo
I am planning to sell the cpu mobo and ram(throwing away that psu since I have a tx650 on standby). However I need to figure out which exact part is causing the problem. I did multiple ram test and it was cleared, I thought it was the hdd giving up because windows file/dir loading is very slow, but when I put it in my comp for xfer it was working like a champ, hd tune was showing no bad sector in full test and benchmark was showing accepable result.
So now I am really down to psu or mobo, most component in the mobo is working fine(I do not see particular fault). And at the moment I am eyeing on a psu issue(if a psu is failing shouldn't it be rebooting instead of bsod?)
Also should I attempt to put the new psu in? if the fault is at mobo could it possibly damage the psu?
comments and suggestions are greatly apprecieated! (I am losing stupid ppd to this! :blarg