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BSOD after replacing heatsink
Hello,
I was using a stock heatsink in my computer before, and was receiving strange readings of a CPU at 113 degrees Celsius, so I opened it up, installed a better heatsink, and still got the same results. I learned that Speccy is just defaulting to that temperature because it can't read it.
So I decided to keep the heatsink anyway, seeing as it could do nothing but help my computer, but ever since, I've gotten sporadic blue screens. I've only encountered it doing them twice, but I know of two other accounts where it happened while I was away from my computer. Both times I witnessed it, it happened once, rebooted, and then again a few minutes later. After the second BSOD, it would work perfectly fine for a while.
I don't think it's a heating issue as it happened either while gaming, or while idle on the desktop. I'm thinking it may be something with the voltage, seeing as how this is a much bigger heatsink than my previous one. I've gone ahead and attached the logs to this thread, hopefully someone can make heads or tails of it, and give me a confirmation as to what the problem is, as I'd like to avoid opening it in case of further possible damaging.
Thank you.