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BSOD randomly trying to narrow down
I"ve been having BSOD's randomly for years now. I went through a period recently of not having any for 5 months or so until they started reoccurring. I've always had an overclock although I am not an expert at it. For the purposes of trying to finally figure out what is causing the BSOD's I've gone to default BIOS settings. I can add that I have had the BSOD's even when not overclocked.
Noticeable behavior and hunches:
1. Power Options. I have a hunch something about the pc power options is causing the BSOD's because at times the monitor will stay asleep despite the computer being awake. The hunch also comes from crashes being caused soon after being awakened from sleep.
2. Memory. On my motherboard there is a red light comes on (Memok!) when it does not recognize memory. It is usually on when restarting the computer or when the BSOD happens. The light will be on and the monitor will turn itself off. When clicking the "Memok" button it's supposed to detect and apply safe settings for the memory. I've done this before and currently using the settings it has applied to my BIOS.
Also when overclocking running a BLEND test in Prime95 would almost instantaneously crash my PC although when running MEMTEST via USB BOOT it detected no errors.
I have nothing else to add except that I hope I can get some help with these BSOD's once and for all. Thank you.