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Regularly occurring BSODs - mostly CACHE_MANAGER problems
I built my machine in late June and have been getting regular BSODs since then. Mostly it is a CACHE_MANAGER problem with stop code 34. However, various other codes have popped up too.
There's no obvious pattern to the crashes. At times the computer would go for a few days. At other times it crashes every few minutes. It can crash when the machine is quite busy; it seems to be equally able to crash when not doing much.
I suspected the cause could be a bad driver and I have upgraded all the drivers to the latest version and updated the BIOS on the motherboard too. That has not solved the problem.
Other things I have looked at:
- Memtest comes up clean
- running Driver Verifier seems to stop the BSODs but instead makes the machine freeze
I think (and I am guessing here a bit) that the problem may be that the PSU is not powerful enough. The spec on the PSU says it will only deliver 360W max on the 12V rails (picture attached) and the Sapphire site suggests the card needs a PSU that supplies a total of 400W.
However, before splashing out on a new PSU I was hoping somebody might be able to confirm that to be the likely problem? Or see something else that could be the problem?
btw I've taken the video card out and am running on the integrated graphics and everything seems fine (after a couple of hours or so).
Any help much appreciated.
Richard
Last edited by richardday; 29 Aug 2012 at 08:43. Reason: added extra details