BSOD from pretty much anything

Your looking for a BSOD. If it occurs then the ..... is failing.

I did get a BSOD while running Prime95 for over an hour, but that might just have been a coincidence since I get BSOD several times a day.
Reading the log, I can't see any errors, just passed tests.

I also called the company I purchased the system from (Inet.se) for advice, but they were sadly pretty clueless.
They thought that it was either my CPU or the power supply, but I think they were just guessing as I have already replaced the memory and the SSD.
They advised me to send the system to them which isn't really an option at the moment.

This is starting to feel quite hopeless.

Thank you for chiming in Boozad.
My system didn't crash at all yesterday so I thought and hoped that my troubles were over.
They weren't... I had two crashes this morning. One didn't give me a BSOD, instead the system rebooted, but I couldn't get back into windows because of this message: "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

I'm up and running now though and I've gone through all the steps you advised me.

Step 1: I've done this before, but I went through the settings again to make sure I hadn't missed anything.
Here's a screenshot, all in Swedish (Sorry about that)



Step 2: I have 8 gigs of ram and according to the guide you posted that amounts to 8192 of each GB is 1024, so I set my minimum to 8192 and my maximum to 12274 as that's what Windows recommended.
Screenshot:



Step 3: It was already set to manual.

Step 4: The dump files were created without a problem. Not sure if that means that mini dumps are though as my BSOD always tend to freeze at the Initializing crash dump phase.


RAM: Like I mentioned earlier, I scanned my old RAM with Memtest86 several times which gave me many errors, which i interpreted as the cause of all the crashes, but the BSOD kept coming after replacing the RAM, so I doubt that the new sticks could be broken as well.
I did run a test the other night though which didn't show any errors.
It only ran for two passes though, which is strange as the previous tests with my old ram gave me ten passes from the same amount of time.

I'm going to give it another try tonight though.


Here are my specs:

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 64bit
CPU: Intel Core i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80 GHz
CPU COOLER: Corsair Cooling Hydro H50CPU-kylare
Motherboard: MK Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4ATX, S1156
RAM: 2x 4 GB CL9 1600Mhz VENGEANCE LP
GFX: Asus GeForce GTX 780 DirectCU II OC HDMI DP 2xDVI 3GB
SSD 1: Samsung SSD EVO 850-Series 250GB
SSD 2: 80GB Intel X25-M G22,5-tum, 34nm
HD: 1TB Samsung SP SATA-27200RPM Spinpoint F3
Power source: Corsair HX 650W80+

Hmm,

BSOD always tend to freeze at the Initializing crash dump phase.

Hmmm,

I scanned my old RAM with Memtest86 several times which gave me many errors, which i interpreted as the cause of all the crashes, but the BSOD kept coming after replacing the RAM, so I doubt that the new sticks could be broken as well.

I think you need a new mobo. My last advice is to replace the mobo.

Laith: What makes you think that?
I'm fairly certain myself that it's faulty hardware that's causing me this grief and since I've replaced the SSD and the RAM I'm guessing it can only be the motherboard, the CPU or the power source.
I hate that it's so hard to diagnose it though. I mean, maybe it's a faulty wire or a pin. I have a feeling all my hardware will be replaced in the end :/

Boozad: Good thing you pointed it out. I had previously been running Memtest86. I will try the + version tonight.
What are DIMM slots? Could they be causing this type of problems if they are faulty?


I've been experiencing different issues since my last post. Even while running Windows in safe mode. A LOT of freezing and crashes, but only a couple of BSOD strangely enough. Now my system freezes and I get error messages from the running programs, which I didn't before.
This morning I found that the computer had restarted, and when I tried to open programs I kept getting messages telling me that windows couldn't find the programs or the explorer. This happened a couple of times today. Also the start menu was totally empty.
Translation: "The object couldn't be opened - It may have been moved, been renamed or been removed. Would you like to delete the object? YES/NO"


Here's a screenshot from a later freeze which gave me a iTunes error message:

Translation: "The iTunes-libraryfile can't be saved. The needed folder could not be found."

And here's another screen from a crash while I was working in Photoshop:

The DIMM slots are the slots the RAM is in. What makes me think of the motherboard is that we've pretty much tested everything with success. Run MemTest86+, it is very important to run it.

I can't seem to start Memtest86+
I had no problems starting Memtest86, but this version is giving me trouble.
"As I use a usb stick for this I chose the link that says: Download - Auto-installer for USB Key (Win 9x/2k/xp/7) *NEW!*
When I press F12 and try to boot from the usb stick it just keeps repeating something like "Can't load operating system" over and over again.