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BSOD randomly
Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Original OS, OEM.
Hardware was bought at different times.
- DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2400 MHz (9 x 267) - Roughly 2007.
- Primary HDD, again, roughly 2007
- Secondary HDD 2-3 months ago.
( At the bottom of this post, "My system specs",
Western Digital WD20EARS 2TB Hard Drive SATAII 64MB Cache Is the secondary drive )
Formatted my OS around 5 days ago and reinstalled the basic drivers to see if there were any problems,
but I still managed to get the BSOD.
The BSOD's seem to have started after around a month of having bought my newest HDD.
At first (that I noticed, as I don't play games much anymore) the BSOD's happened when
my system was left unattended and just sat there idle. I was led to belive that it could
have been the HDD trying to sleep, or something similar, if that's possible?
( I never let my HDD's sleep ( Power options ) )
I set my system to show a blank screensaver after 5 minutes and then display the logon screen
upon system wake up. Almost every time I woke the computer up, after a prolonged screensaver,
it would take a while for my screen to turn back on as my system would wait for my newest HDD to start spinning back up.
Even with the above problem, when I try to play a game, which is installed on the drive I also
get a BSOD while the drive is loading/reading/idle.
A friend installed Everest last night so I could run a stress test, I just wanted to see if I could
stress any hardware enough for it to fail and present me with a BSOD, but nothing happened at all.
If anyone could help me with this, I'd be more than greatful!!
Last edited by lynx876; 24 Aug 2011 at 07:34.