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BSODs on a relatively new Custom Built Gaming PC
Computer was built around mid August this year, started crashing around mid-september for seemingly no reason. It's crashed around 7-10 times by now, the most recent one being today while playing Guild Wars 2. Every time it's crashed has been while a game was running except for one time when it crashed sometime during the night, when it was supposed to be asleep. I've constantly been checking the temps of my CPU and Graphics Card and neither ever go beyond around 70 degrees Celsius while gaming. After posting on a different forum I was told that the problem was due to a bad 360 controller driver from windows, so when I updated it, I figured that the problem had passed since there have been no crashes that I know of (that was around a month and a half ago).
When I was building the computer I accidentally got some of the thermal compound on the outer edge of the metal cover on top of the CPU while installing the heat sink. I wiped it off as best as I could, but I'm worried that it might be causing a problem as well. I used IC Diamond 7, which as far as I know is non-conductive, so I wasn't too worried about it. I'm running a Mini-ITX system in a BitFenix Prodigy, so space is pretty tight, and it would be fairly difficult to take apart to try and clean the rest of it off, if possible. If nothing software related can be found in the attached file, then I'll take a look and see what I can do, but I would rather not if possible.
Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to provide!
Last edited by sonic77; 21 Nov 2013 at 01:10. Reason: Another SF Diagnostic Tool Zip File