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BSOD while idling or playing
I have a custom built rig that I made maybe 4 or so years ago that is now having issues with BSOD. Now for some background:
3 days ago, my computer decided to start locking up on the Welcome screen (Windows 7 64 bit retail). I tried using a windows repair and it detected nothing wrong. So I decided to reformat and be done with it. Threw in Windows disk and bam, straight to desktop....wait what, BIOS was borked and ignoring set boot order. Took out CMOS battery, shorted the jumpers to kill remaining power, replaced battery with new one. Reinstalled without a hitch.
Now last night, after working fine in the afternoon, the computer decided that it would now give me a BSOD (STOP: 0x000000F4 a process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or terminated). I replaced the SATA cable (connection was warped on wire) and ran a checkdisk on the SSD, same issue. I unplugged everything except OS drive, video card, and 1 stick of RAM. Rebooted and crashes with same BSOD. Tried other RAM stick in a slot I never used, same response.
This error is not creating dump files, the BSOD says both "Collecting data for crash dump..." and "Initializing disk for crash dump..." but nothing else saying dump was successful.
What else could the problem be? I can only think its maybe the SSD (doubtful) or the motherboard.