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Confused about how I obtained a BSOD
Hey there. This is my first post here, but I figure I'd come here and potentially ask for help to make sure I avoid whatever the hell I had to deal with for the past four minutes. I'll explain how I got BSODs first: This week I recently got a new graphics card, an NVidia GTX 580, for games. I don't think I have the best power supply to use it just yet, so I've withheld on using it so I didn't blow anything out. But, I wanted to give Sniper Elite V2 a try.
It all worked well until I got to the end of the demo, where my PC locked up and froze. After that, with rebooting, I would constantly get random BSOD messages: some would happen on startup, if I switched audio, if I went to control panel, if I was on Chrome. I tried doing a system restore to the most recent point, which had to do with a DirectX update, and even doing that caused the system to BSOD.
I was lucky and I was able to use an older point to restore to use, but I'm now petrified I'm gonna get it again. Surely I didn't blow the motherboard or any serious components as it all works, but I was wondering how I can check and figure out what were the variables that created it, and how to prevent it? The various BSOD messages all had different error messages popping up, so it wasn't a repeat offender or anything. They don't seem to be back for the time being, so I suppose what I want to ask if there was a way I can simply check my computer to see if everything's up to speed, as I'm assuming something was out of whack and essentially broke the boot process after the system caught wind of it.