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Hello,
I built my system about 18 months ago, and even then I would get a decent (maybe 2-4 a week) amount of BSOD...usually when launching a program/game. Tried a few times with WinDBG but gave up.
Lived with it for a while, but very recently decided to upgrade my system.
New PSU, new video card, new SSD for booting, and even got new SATA cables (why not...thought it might have been that easy)...wanted upgrades anyway but also hoping this might fix it.
Also worth pointing out, before upgrade was running a dual-boot Windows/Mac OS (2 boot drives)...and the Mac side NEVER had any issues...but for various reasons with this upgrade decided to 100% abandon the Mac and stick with just a Windows boot.
Knowing the issues I've had in the past, I kept installs VERY minimal (firefox, utorrent, avast, drivers), put them all on the SSD boot drive, with exception being iTunes on 2nd hard drive and Steam games on 3rd (but didn't reinstall program yet).
It would work fine for a bit (maybe a few hours) but then continued to get BSOD...in middle of booting, right after booting, and when I just browsing the web or listening to music.
Did all normal things I could thing of...took it apart, put everything back in, MemTest86+, updated SSD firmwear...and did a 100% fresh reinstall of Windows. Worked fine for a day, then today BSOD...trying to reboot afterwards did auto CHKDSK, fixed a bunch of stuff...and then kept trying to boot but kept crashing and restarting (happened several times). I turned it off, unplugged the 2 storage drives, and it booted and I am typing from it now.
I am at a loss. Please help. Thanks.
Put all specifics of system in profile, but running a self-built
Windows Ultimate 7 x64 (clean reinstall 48 hours ago)
Mobo/CPU/storage HHD/memory 18 months old
PSU/GPU/SSD boot drive 7 days old