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Intermittent BSOD, trouble resuming Windows, Difficult to Diagnose
System Spec:
- 64 bit
- I built the machine August 2010, I have not reinstalled the OS since.
- Full Retail Version of Windows 7
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Hello Everyone,
I have been experiencing problems with this machine since about a month after I built it in August 2011. At first I would get a BSOD just every once in a while. I am at architecture school and I didn't have time to address the issue, so I just kept a diligent written log of every time I noticed it happening. I have included that as an attachment. You'll notice that there was not an obvious trigger - it would not crash as soon as I opened something, or as soon as I tried to use the sound card. It would happen both while I was working in Adobe Illustrator, and when I left my computer idle to go grab a cup of coffee or something like that. I have included all the dump files I have as attachments.
Recently, however, Windows has had trouble resuming. I can't figure out exactly what is happening because it hasn't happened while I was at my computer yet. But, pretty much every time I return to my computer after a 10 minute absence, I come back to a black screen with a blinking white underscore in the top left corner. I think it has something to do with the machine going to sleep and having trouble resuming windows.
Another clue, which I've researched a little bit, is that I think I heard a single beep the other day. Granted, I'm in a studio with 50 other people and there are cellphones, headphones tons of computer and all kinds of noise, but I'm sure enough about what I heard to include it here. The forums I checked suggested this was a problem with the RAM.
Here is a list of the components from the NewEgg invoice:
Motherboard:
13-128-498 MB GIGABYTE|GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Z68 R
Videocard:
14-133-273 VGA PNY|VCQFX580-PCIE-PB FX580 RT
Power Supply:
17-341-018 PSU OCZ|OCZ700MXSP 700W RT
Processor:
19-115-071 CPU INTEL|CORE I7 2600 3.4G 8M R
Card Reader:
20-223-103 CARD READ|ROSEWILL RCR-IC001 R
RAM
20-231-424 MEM 4Gx2|G.SKILL F3-10666CL9D-8GBNT
Hard Drive:
22-136-533 HD 1T|WD 7K 64M SATAIII WD1002FAEX
Cooling Unit:
35-118-003 CPU FAN ZALMAN|CNPS9500 AT RTL