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BSODs, possible faulty hardware but not sure...
Hi Everyone,
My PC recently crashed, i.e. would not boot into Windows and I had to reinstall. I thought I may have fried the processor by overheating it (apparently I did not apply the thermal paste very effectively when I assembled this thing back in 2011...) but that does not seem to be the case, as I was able to reinstall Windows7 and get this machine back up and running. I'm still not sure why it crashed in the first place...
The first Windows7 reinstall I did last week had to be redone, because for some reason it would never successfully update Windows7 SP1 (it just kept throwing errors when it tried that update, although it would do other updates just fine).
My second attempt at the Windows7 reinstall seems to be working, as I was able to fully update this Windows7 installation and it is currently working just fine.
However, I am seeing a high number of BSODs since the reinstall, and I am wondering exactly what is going on here. I am leaning towards a hardware malfunction, but I'm not sure. I've run CHKDSK on my hdd and also run Memtest86+, and neither of those have found anything. I'm about all out of options/expertise.
Minidump logs are attached. Any help is much appreciated!