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BSOD after DDR5 upgrade on HP m9400f
hey guys,
new to the site and the computer tech world... i am learning quickly but i am no pro by any means.
Short story on comp history:
Bought the computer new, ran it for a year wanted a new vid card, went out and bought a Nvidia 9600GT... 2 months later trying to install VISTA service pack 2, my computer lost screen and just stayed on for 3 days (in the "installing updates do NOT shut off" stage) so i had no choice 3 days later, i shut it down. brought the computer to the store and the guy there told me the armature in my hard drive over-heated and stopped working completely; thus losing all my files and stuff *shrugs* what do i do now? get a new hard drive right? so he GAVE me a 250gig he had kickin around nice guy! and well i bought a 500 just to have extra space anyway. then i couldnt find the vista disk with the claims of HP puts it on the recovery partition of the hard drive LMAO! Sooooo im like "well the hard drive wont even spin let alone recovery partition anything" so i said F vista and bought windows 7 (great move on my part, its 100x better)
so about 1.5yrs goes by on the 9600GT then all of a sudden i kept getting these messages that "display driver has crashed and has successfully recovered" i said oh ok, so i need a new video card right? (turns out i was wrong) but i bought a new DDR5 GTX550Ti EVGA card anyway cuz im a parts changer lol. and i put it in, it runs GREAT for like 2 weeks. i found where the vid card was getting "over-clocked" so now if i keep that at a lower setting (thanks to EVGA for making it easy to do that) it doesnt crash and recover like before. now my computer randomly crashes whenever it wants and gives me a blue screen SOMETIMES...
i tried clean boot, i tried a fresh hard drive and fresh windows 7 with drivers downloaded directly from EVGA's website... i THINK i have all this right and sorry about the book...
any help is greatly appreciated!!