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Frequent BSOD - 6 of the last 7 I wasn't using using PC
I haven't really identified any specific cause so I'll give you the history of the computer. It's a used gaming system that I got from a friend who was upgrading. He says he didn't overclock it or anything like that. My old system had WinXP booting from the D: drive and Win7-64 Pro installed on a new C: drive. When I restored the backup of the C: drive, it wouldn't boot (obviously). So I took it to one of the PC geeks at work who does all the PC office equipment and he got my Win7 installed. I have 2 brand new Seagate 1Tb drives in the system but he insisted that I needed Win7 installed on a separate small drive so I could eventually convert to a SSD. He generously donated a Seagate that he had lying around (aka unknown age and origin). I know my old hard-drive died sometime around the end of April, the first BSOD that shows in BlueScreen Viewer is in mid-May and I've been fighting with it ever since. I thought it was Poser Pro 2014, which runs really hot, so I tried to put a better heatsync in the system, fried the motherboard, got an ASRocks Z77 Extreme4 for replacement and took the PC went back to my co-worker. That seemed to fix things for a month or so. There seem to be a few things that might have triggered the BSOD, since obviously it's not Poser Pro 2014 overheating my system. One thing I've heard, though, it that Poser Pro apparently plays nicer with NVIDIA cards but isn't supposed have problems with AMD- I'm sceptical but I'm also prejudiced since I've had problems before with my other system - it could have just been the video but putting an NVDIA card in fixed (and I do still have that card - not state of the art but not a dog - GeForce GT403 1024 Mb DDR3). I've got two additional hard-drives that are plugged into a dual-port docking station (USB 3.0). When I powered them back up and set Acronis True Image 2013 to start automatic backups, it seemd I got more BSOD then. So I powered the external drives off, forgot to turn off Acronis backups - got more BSOD (6 in a row when I wasn't even using the system). So I disabled all that and the last BSOD happened when I was just surfing the internet. I hope somebody can help. I don't want to bother the co-worker since he's been very generous with his time and refused to accept any payment. I'm pretty computer savvy but this has me stumped.
By the way, CPUID Hardware Monitor reports that my video card is Radeon HD 6870.
Last edited by sandmanmax; 21 Sep 2013 at 18:02. Reason: found video card model