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Windows Almost every boot up, bluescreen

Discussion in 'Tech Support' started by GingerFox, 15 Jun 2010.

  1. GingerFox

    GingerFox What's a Dremel?

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    Hey guys

    My pc keeps bluescreening, at first i thought it was the overclock, so i reset to default, still having problems.

    The error message is usually different aswel, but i can't seem to find how to upload the minidump files here, and i have no idea what they mean:(

    Can anyone help?
     
  2. PegasusM

    PegasusM Stand back, I'm doing science

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    what does it say when it blue screens?
     
  3. SuicideNeil

    SuicideNeil What's a Dremel?

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    Right down the error code(s)- I used to get 0x0000008e alot, turned out to be some funky usb mouse driver issue ( would update to one of two drivers each time I ran the update, only one driver actually worked properly ). Any new hardware installed lately?
     
  4. bulldogjeff

    bulldogjeff The modding head is firmly back on.

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    Try to get a pic of the bsod with a camera then upload as normal.
     
  5. Guinevere

    Guinevere Mega Mom

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    How maxed out was your overclock? Was it the highest stable you could get, or did you crank it back a bit to save pushing the hardware to the max?

    If I had a pound for every dead PC I've heard of owned by those that overclock to the max....

    I'm not saying you've got dead hardware because of your overclock, but it's a possibility. It's also a possible that you've just got a borked windows install and sorting that out may fix it.

    I'd recomend grabbing a linux live CD and see if you can boot into that. If not then you've likely got hardware issues, so you'll need to start working out what it is... may be just the PSU, but it could also be the MB or CPU or...
     
  6. capnPedro

    capnPedro Hacker. Maker. Engineer.

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    Have you run Memtest86+ yet?
     
  7. GingerFox

    GingerFox What's a Dremel?

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    Hi, i ran the memory test than can be accessed by pressing f8 at startup, it said problems were dectected, but didn't show me the results on next boot, i think because it failed to boot or something, so does this look like it definatly points to ram?

    i tried to upload a pic but for some reason its failing to upload atm
     
  8. GMX09

    GMX09 Frequent Tweaker

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    If problems were detected, it's likely that your RAM is the issue.
     
  9. GingerFox

    GingerFox What's a Dremel?

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    Thought so, im now testing each stick on its own, hopefully its just the one thats gone
     

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