I believe the last few weeks I have been going nuts trying to figure out why my pc is getting the dreaded BSOD when I am playing games on it.
I built this pc myself using all new parts/components with the exception of a HD and a DVD/CD ROM drive that were taken from a Gateway I purchased 6 months prior. The Gateway HD I used as the primary drive and have a secondary WD HD that was purchased just to install games and other media onto. I also have a second DVD drive. The OS was Vista 64bit on the old Gateway and been upgraded to Win 7 Home Prem 64.
My rig was mainly built for high-end gaming and used to play music and videos occasionally. All parts purchased in Aug 2010 and self assembled by Sep 2010. All Bios and Drivers updated to most current. I have always monitored the heat coming from both the CPU and the GFX card but until just recently I've been experiencing issues with flickering desktop wallpaper. I did some tweaks of my settings and eventually had to RMA my Radeon HD5850 so I am using a HD5770 for the time being (both 1GB). But it appears that the issues are coming from other things that I have not been able to figure out as of yet.
I have attempted to wipe the harddrive and reinstall but was halted by some issues that I have not fixed yet but at the time things seem to cleared up but not so much... All files are attached and I would appreciate any insight to my woes so I can correct them and get my system back up to running at 100%!
Thanks!
I built this pc myself using all new parts/components with the exception of a HD and a DVD/CD ROM drive that were taken from a Gateway I purchased 6 months prior. The Gateway HD I used as the primary drive and have a secondary WD HD that was purchased just to install games and other media onto. I also have a second DVD drive. The OS was Vista 64bit on the old Gateway and been upgraded to Win 7 Home Prem 64.
My rig was mainly built for high-end gaming and used to play music and videos occasionally. All parts purchased in Aug 2010 and self assembled by Sep 2010. All Bios and Drivers updated to most current. I have always monitored the heat coming from both the CPU and the GFX card but until just recently I've been experiencing issues with flickering desktop wallpaper. I did some tweaks of my settings and eventually had to RMA my Radeon HD5850 so I am using a HD5770 for the time being (both 1GB). But it appears that the issues are coming from other things that I have not been able to figure out as of yet.
I have attempted to wipe the harddrive and reinstall but was halted by some issues that I have not fixed yet but at the time things seem to cleared up but not so much... All files are attached and I would appreciate any insight to my woes so I can correct them and get my system back up to running at 100%!
Thanks!
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My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Self Built
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
- CPU
- MD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition 3.2GHz 125W
- Motherboard
- ASRock 870 Extreme3 (Bios 1.6)
- Memory
- G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM 1600
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI Radeon 5850 HD 1GB
- Sound Card
- Onboard
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dual Gateway FHX2300
- Hard Drives
- Western Digital WD1501FASS 1.5TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb
- PSU
- KINGWIN Mach 1 ABT-800MA1S 800W ATX / BTX SLI Certified
- Case
- XCLIO A380COLOR Fully Black 1.0 mm SECC
- Cooling
- ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 92mm Fluid Dynamic CPU
