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BSOD help (may be related to GPU temps.)
Hello!
I will cut right to the chase.
As of two weeks ago my computer has started to experience BSOD issues. I read somewhere that NORTON 360 may be the culprit, and proceeded to uninstall it (using the NRT). I thought everything was honky dory, and for a few days had no issues. Then yesterday the BSOD came back, and upon rebooting the computer got itself in a loop. Every time this happens it displays the IRQL error.
I have since updated every possible driver I could find, and then found many of the threads here addressed similar but not identical issues.
My BSOD issues seem to be related to temperature, although I cannot tell which component is at fault. CPU temps do not go over 55 degrees C under load, and I have no way of monitoring my GPU. After experiencing a BSOD the computer will become unstable for several minutes, up to a half hour, after which it will do a regular boot without any issues and work for approximately 2 to 3 hours (even while playing games) before coming back down with a BSOD.
Figured I might add that on there.
So...Things I've done:
*Updated and obtained drivers for any out of date or missing driver.
*Verified RAM is not the culprit by checking each RAM chip with memtest
*Uninstalled Norton and obtained MSE in its place.
*did a SFC /SCANNOW (came back 100% no issues)
Any help is greatly appreciated, oh computer gurus.
BASIC SYSTEM INFO
*WINDOWS 7 64 BIT OEM
*Q6600 at 2.4ghz (no overclock, never been overclocked) Temps range from 40 to 55 C under load
*8 GB of ram in 2gb chips (verified for integrity)
*MOBO is a ASUS P5N-D with the latest BIOS release.
*GEFORCE GTX570 (dont know the temps on this thing)
All of this hardware (while seemingly old) has only been part of this system for between 1-2 years.