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Random BSOD Doing Anything, PROCESS_NAME: wininit.exe
Quick Story About What I Use A PC For:
- Hi, I just recently built a new PC (It's about 3 months old, as of August 29th), and It's been giving me infrequent -random- crashes. I could be playing a game, or browsing the web, or having it idle. Sometimes it crashes after 2 days, sometimes it crashes after a week, or a week and a half. I only play "Guild Wars", "Minecraft" and "Starcraft 2", and I'm a frequent user of Google Chrome. Since the PC is new and has been giving me trouble since I purchased it, I haven't installed anything else on it other than what I listed above, and the occasional Microsoft Update.
PC Specifications:
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (Full Retail)
Case: In-Win Dragon Rider
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2600K
Graphics: AMD Radeon™ HD 6950
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68-V Pro
Power Supply: OCZ Z Series 850W Power Supply (Gold Certified / Modular)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance™ - 16GB Dual Channel DDR3
SSD (Main): OCZ Agility 3 SATA III 2.5"
HDD (Not Main): Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0Gb/s 320-GB
Memory Dump File:
- Is Attached
A Little Bio About My PC:
- It runs comfortably at 35 degrees Celsius idle, can go up to 45 when I'm gaming. Incredibly fast, runs all my programs flawlessly. There's no real cause to why it crashes, I've attempted to re-create the scenario in which it crashes, but seems to be completely random.
Last But Not Least, Things I've Tried:
- Despite the fact I've already tried these, I am open minded and am willing to try any of them again if necessary. Keep in mind whenever I say "It still crashed then", it still means that it was a -random- crash, and that my PC ran fine for about a week before it crashed again.
a) I've taken out my SSD, and just ran the HDD. It still crashed then.
b) I've taken out my HDD, and just ran the SSD. It still crashed then.
c) I updated the firmware on my SSD. It still crashed then.
d) I reformatted my SSD and my HDD and tried them both separately/together again. It still crashed.
e) I updated my BIOS version to whatever the latest is on the ASUS website. It still crashed.
f) I ran MemTest86+ on each stick separately for at least 8 passes, and then ran it again on all of them together, flawless results.
And just recently, I changed a few settings in my BIOS related to "Turbo Mode" and "Power Saving" ... which I don't think I need ... so I turned them off. I know my PC has the ability to Overclock, but I don't want it to until I can find a stable setting for my PC to run comfortably at without crashing.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Last edited by Chaospudding; 10 Sep 2011 at 10:15.