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Random lockups and BSODs
Hi. I built a new PC just under a year ago from individual parts that I bought (mostly new). It has been running fine with the very occasional lock-up and restart in games such as WoW and LOTRO. However, these random lock-ups have started to become more and more frequent over the last month and I have started to get random BSODs.
I recently did a format of my hard drives and re-installed Win 7, Office, GPU and sound card drivers, and LOTRO. I've still been getting the random lock-ups and random BSODs.
They generally only occur in a game, but I've had the odd one when just web surfing. Generally, the game will suddenly freeze and my monitor will display what looks like a scrambled image of random pixels and colours, and the sound stutters. This is sometimes then followed by a BSOD. Generally, when I restart Windows will boot as normal, although sometimes I get a BSOD or an error in the bios saying "overclocking has failed". I'm not actually overlocking anything, I've left everything as factory clocked. The only thing I changed in the bios to try and help the problem was to put the memory into ganged mode which hasn't helped.
I've followed the BSOD instructions and attached the zip file. Some more info:
- x86 (32-bit) or x64 ? x64
- the original installed OS on the system? win7 x64
- an OEM or full retail version? OEM (bought with the components that I then built myself) -
- What is the age of system (hardware)? just under 1 year (I built it last December)
- What is the age of OS installation (have you re-installed the OS?) Yes, re-installed about 3 days ago
Thanks very much in advance for any help you can give ! I've tried to diagnose the cause myself over the last week or so, taking the GPU out and the sound card out etc, but I've still not managed to find any root cause. I'm thinking it may be a RAM problem, but I've run memtest (not for very long though, just one pass) and the Win7 boot memory test and they displayed no errors.