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When tension changes,BSOD may occur?!
Ok,hello,for the past few weeks after receiving my new RAM from the reseller (thats due to the fact that I had like 800 problems with OCZ and so they decided to RMA it and then they made me pay the difference (which was,50 dollars,a bargain) between them and the G.SKILL ram) I have been experiencing some crazy stuff,and you will know why I call it crazy.
When I brought the computer from Tecnohards (the reseller,which is also a technician,a pretty good damn technician) it had some minor quirks,which were quickly fixed by TH (will refer to Tecnohards as TH from now on)....so,after bringing the computer with those quirks fixed,I decided to install a fresh copy of W7 due to the fact that Google Chrome and Firefox were always "The program has found a problem and had to close blah blah blah",and OCCT NOR P95 COULD DO MORE THAN 10 MINUTES (OCCT Failed at start....) then...sh*t hit the fan=
It started to randomly BSOD out of nowhere,watching videos,surfing the web,idle,except when playing games (until now,there hasnt been a BSOD which ocurred while playing games,so that's makes me a little bit happy),BUT,STRANGELY,OCCT AND P95 STARTED WORKING LIKE A GEM (REMEMBER?,DIDNT WORK BEFORE REFORMATING,WORKED AFTER FORMATING),and all those BSOD had always the same messages (which today still haunt my dreams)=
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA
The first time I ran the verifier.exe and it found it was a bad driver from one program by GIGABYTE (The thing that allows you to OC via software).So,I removed that driver and things went ok.....until it started BSOD'ing again,same messages,and verifier.exe could find anything,so I sent it again to TH explaining all the stuff that was happening.
I got it back one week later,because they tested everything on it,P95,OCCT,FURMARK,even hit it with a hammer (nah,joke,but seriously,it passed all the tests,twice!) and they said I missed changing some more complicated RAM timing in the BIOS and I touched some stuff I shouldt have touched in the BIOS that MIGHT HAD CAUSED the BSOD's,BUT,THEY NEVER REPORTED A SINGLE BSOD IN THE DAMN TEST-WEEK!
So,after receiving the computer back,I thought it was going to function properly (altough,they connected my old SAMSUNG full'o'stuff back again, but dont worry,I formated and cleaned all the trash on it,I thought they removed it when they installed the WD BLACK but it wasnt the case.) buuuuut,I got the same BSOD again....and so I called TH and I was left with the only explanation possible up to date:
"Tension variation is f**** with up the computer"
Only explanation,due to the fact that:
-MEMORY WAS TESTED BY ME AND TH WITH MEMTEST (me by 12 hours),OCCT AND P95,so it worked perfectly.
-IF MOBO WAS DAMAGED,THEN PC WOULDT EVEN START (Which is not the case)
-CPU FUNCTIONED PERFECTLY (OCCT,P95,ALL PASSED)
-GPU FUNCTIONED PERFECTLY DUE TO IT BEING TESTED BY TH AND ME WITH FURMARK AND CCC STRESS TEST (all passed!)
-HDs (Both Samsung and WD) WERE TESTED BY ME AND TH AND ALL FUNCTIONED PERFECTLY
So,it is possible that the tension (being in an area where energy service is faulty) makes the computer BSOD in my house while the guys at TH (Which is located in Capital Federal,the argentine capital,I am in the "suburbs" around that city,more specifically,bella vista) had it running perfectly for an entire week?.
AN OBSERVATION:THINGS SEEM TO MOSTLY GO BAD WHEN I MAKE A COLD BOOT,THEREFORE,MY COUNTER-EXPLANATION TO THE TENSION THING IS THAT THE GUYS AT TH HAD IT RUNNING ONE ENTIRE WEEK WITHOUT SHUTTING IT DOWN (Dont know if they did that way) AND SO IT WOULD NEVER BSOD (Sometimes It BSOD's after W7 loading screen,others not,so,the TH guys were lucky right off the bat)
By saying mostly I refer to the fact that BSOD occurs more on the W7 loading screen than after it,the frequency would be AFTER COLD BOOT/COLD BOOT=
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Sadly,Im right now in Mendoza,far far away from BS AS so I cant provide any useful info.I will be back to house in monday late,and from there on,I will be able to answer back questions with more technical stuff.
Sorry for wall of text,hope you can help me,this is driving me mad.