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Restarts and crashes and bears, oh my
Hello all,
So I'll get right down to the pertinent details and try to be as clear and concise as I can.
This is the first computer I have attempted to build on my own without semi-professional help. I bought all the parts and assembled them, and through much toil, sweat, and troubleshooting, my creation came to life. (I got Windows 7 installed and booting.)
I have had what I believe to be several separate issues that I have resolved one at a time, until this last and glaring problem of random restarts. I will be playing a game, or doing some other task on the computer and the screen will black for an instant and then present me with multicolored scrambles and the audio will stutter on a loop of the last sound. (duration ~.3 sec) The computer will then reboot.
I do have auto restarts disabled, but it usually does not present a blue screen or create a minidump. I have gotten to a blue screen occasionally and gotten a dump out of it and they are attached. All I get out of the Event Viewer is Kernel Error 41 bugcheckcode 0.
Let me tell you what I have done:
Made sure all of my drivers were up to date. (using driver cleaners to make sure the old ones were out)
Up to date BIOS.
Disabled the AMD power save equivalent on the processor. (Cool&Quiet, I think) I had heard this could sometimes cause trouble.
Scanned for viruses and malware.
Ran the memory through 20 memtest extensive cycles, no errors.
Ran checkdisk several times, no problems.
Ran sfc scan it said everything was fine.
I have done an upgrade installation to replace the Windows files, so see if that might help.
Turned off the nonessential startup items.
I have removed all the unnecessary scheduled tasks.
Used Driver Verifier to run all of the options except for low resource simulation. (This DID result it ferreting out a RealTek Audio Driver that I uninstalled, still crashes)
So after all of that, I still feel in my gut it's a software issue and that the hardware is ok. If it is the hardware, however, I need to figure out which piece quickly so I can RMA it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks for your time. :)