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Random crashes and blue screens
This is a home-built system (win7 x64 OEM) that has been running for about a year with no issues. A little over a month ago, I started getting random program crashes, and frequent blue screen crashes. There doesn't seem to be any real pattern. Sometimes it will bluescreen while just sitting idle. But playing resource-intensive games brings them on more frequently. Based on experience, I was pretty sure the problem was some hardware component, so I started trying to narrow it down. Originally, I thought it was related to a new wi-fi card I installed, because the reliability history showed that the crashes started the day I installed it. Since then I have done the following:
- Removed the wi-fi card and completely wiped the drivers off the system. No effect.
- Replaced the video card. No effect.
- Ran a bunch of memory diagnostics, which found nothing.
At this point, the crashes started getting worse, and eventually, Windows stopped booting altogether, reporting failure to mount the boot volume. So then, I:
- Tried to run SeaTools off a boot CD, but it kept crashing partway through the long test.
- Replaced hard drive and did a fresh Windows install. It seemed fine for a while, but after a day or so, I started getting app crashes and blue-screens again.
- Suspecting a problem with the on-board SATA controller, I installed a SATA3 controller card (came with motherboard, but never used it before). Like the HDD/OS install, it seemed to be working for about a day, then it started crashing again.
So at this point, I'm starting to think the problem is some major component of the Motherboard. But before I spring for a replacement, I thought I'd see if anyone here has any other suggestions to try. I'm attaching the data from the data collection tool.