"My feet stopped killing me when I bought new shoes. Cure your cancer by buying new shoes". At what point do you separate so many recommendations based in speculation from facts. Facts - which means numbers. Memory - every memory has a number read by the POST before memory is even accessed. If that memory is a wrong type, then its number says so long before the OS even loaded. And the system would not use that memory. If your system accessed the memory, then its number reported it as the right type. How many posted that basic computer fact when you asked a 'should I suspect wrong memory' post? Again, one - many post no facts and numbers. Two - have insufficient knowledge. You can entertain this majority by shotgunning. Or get important numbers to have a useful answer in the next post by posting facts with numbers – ie the multimeter. After how many hours of fixing things that were not defective, is it solved? Provided was how to have it solved after one minute of labor. Best, at this point, is to replace everything you suspect. And be done with it. Your replies were only as useful as facts and numbers that you provided. Just replace motherboard, PSU, etc rather than keep fixing things that are not even suspects. Thermal compound never was your problem. Finish shotgunning. Replace all remaining suspects. Or spend another week in confusion.
While my moneybags status might be exxagerated here i can assure you that i cant afford to replace right now. So my questions are to try and troubleshoot my issue, i can understand your frustration westom but everything ive tried seems to fail, and your smart remarks dont help the situation. So please, if you dont have anything constructive to say, please dont post.
Appreciate that your many other posts have posting nothing constructive. Either get a meter for $18 in Wal-Mart or for $5 in Harbor Freight. Only alternative is to replace those parts. Those are the only constructive options. Otherwise fix things that are irrelevant to your problem. Constructive as in eliminate all the chaff; only solve the problem. You may not like it. But those are your only two constructive options. Meter is the least expensive – both in time and dollars.
Np Vicxas . I think we all want to see you solve this problem. I agree, the best way you to prioritize is by price, if you are on a budget and the pc is not too much of an essential. If your job depended on it might be a different story. As you know, in my opinion it's a sofware issue and I hope you prove me right. I'm training as a pc repair tech and from what you have said I find it hard to understand how it could really be the hardwares fault. It's not a common issue and I think thas why it's taking a while to resolve.
you have to think of it in the terms of the chain. In general If a good version of windows has good stable drivers, with good stable hardware then there should be no issues. If it's not windows, and all drivers are up to date, the only thing I can suggest is running the computer at lower speeds than it should, seeing if it crashes, lower it until it's stable, if it's never stable then PSU is most likely to be the culprit. Once it os stable then raise each component to full speed one by one, and ruling them out that way.
