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BSOD on Dell Inpiron 560s after installing new RAM and new GFX card
Hi there,
Long time lurker, first time poster here. Your forums have provided a lot of support to me in the past and I am usually able to sort out most things, but this BSOD issue has really got me stumped. So thanks for all the help in the past and thanks in advance for any help you can give me with this issue.....
I have had my computer for a few years and it has always ran fine - with stock parts. A few weeks ago i upgraded a few things and this has resulted in a really unstable system and multiple, random BSODs (or should that be BSsOD?!)
In the same sitting I changed a few components as follows....
I swapped out the old GeForce 310 GFX card for Nvidia Quadro 600 (now updated to driver 311.50)
I swapped out all my RAM (4 x Kingston 1GB Sticks supplied with the machine) and replaced them with 4 x 2GB Sticks Kingston Value RAM - Making sure it was compatible with the computer as per the System guide from DELL - all have been tested with Memtest and no errors found
I started using a cheap 4 way USB splitter to connect a Wacom tablet and a USB Lacie drive
Since I had the tower open, I swapped out my 3 year old CMOS battery and replaced it
That's about it.... After that, upon startup I would have multiple BSODs and it has never gone away...
It happens pretty consistently when the machine is started after a few hours off... like overnight - but having a fresh CMOS battery in it, this makes no sense to me...
If you persevere and keep rebooting up after the crashes, the machine seems to be able to recover itself and then behave relatively well, but this is not always the case.... The crashes seem to be without a pattern. (Like today, after 3 restarts, it settled down all seemed well.... I left some music playing in winanmp, no other windows open - went for a shower, came back and was greeted by silence and 'windows has recovered from an... You know the rest)
The BSODs can be brought on by anything from opening the start menu, opening my browser (Firefox), opening windows explorer
Also, little things fail with no explanation... I have an old Lacie drive which I connect via a PCI Firewire card. Was working yesterday... then stopped... then after an 'F8 - Last know good configuration' reboot, worked again.. Then today... not working....
I have reinstalled the system from scratch... TWICE and very little has improved
I have tried to interpret the minidump files, but it's beyond me I'm afraid. I think I have been through and updated any drivers which may be troublesome, but can't seem to logically work through and find the solution...
Any help you can give me with this would be much appreciated as I'm all out of ideas. All my system diagnostics are attached.
Mambique
Also, If you made it this far, you have my thanks for even reading this much!