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BSOD random - unable to isolate
Hi everyone, first post here. I've been encountering a number of BSOD but aren't consistent in nature. The latest one occurred just a bit ago but Windows didn't report what the actual problem was, just gave me a BSOD.
Anyway, some quick info, I use this machine for product development, so I have a lot of tools I need including Eclipse, Tortoise SVN and WAMP. This is a Windows 7 Pro 64-bit retail environment, I also have MS Office 2010 pro installed and use Firefox as my primary browser. The report indicates that I don't have any antivirus, but I am running Norton 360 and can verify it is active, so not sure why it reported that.
I have not been able to isolate the cause. I upgraded my video card about 6-8 months ago because I was getting BSOD and believed improving the graphics card would help... and it did for a while, but it slowly got worse. About two weeks ago I did a full system check over the weekend and afterwards things got better, but now the BSOD are starting to creep back up again.
I had believed it was some of the cloud services I was running, I had Bitcasa, iCloud and Dropbox all going simultaneously, so I dropped the first two but must keep Dropbox for work, not sure if this plays a role or not.
I haven't overclocked anything, I have the case side off, dust cleaned out and even run a fan blowing at it in case it's a heat issue, but to no avail.
Any help is appreciated.
Steven