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Ohhhh, now i understand.
Yep Laith when you have a spare minute or two have a look at that link I sent in my little ditty.
Oops must put it in Power Supply 101: A Reference Of Specifications - Power Supplies > section 2
Hi guys, sorry for the long gap between responses. I have since had an issue with my internet connection that so far I believe is on the ISP end! Anyway, that is a different issue.
derekimo - I have removed all of that as requested, for the record that was purely for educational purposes but it is gone now anyway! I have attached my latest BSOD logs - I hope I did not miss anything, please let me know if I did. I am on the policy of this forums side in that debate :)
essenbe - I have removed my graphics card and still had the BSOD, ran many stress tests on it too (see earlier posts). At this point I am very positive the BSOD is not being caused by the graphics card. However, I completed your instructions as requested, I used a newer edition of the driver and the very first edition. Already had hardware acceleration disabled and had troubleshooted that too. Unfortunately all of this still results in this painful BSOD :/
I also removed the Corsair H60 CPU cooler and replaced it with the Intel stock cooler. Still BSOD and instant temp issues when prime95 is run. I have since reapplied thermal paste and reattached the H60. I have included a photo as was requested a while back of the amount of thermal compound applied. Think I have exhausted that avenue now
ICIT2LOL - I will complete your instructions very soon.
Thank you all for your help with this as always. I feel like we are getting closer to the needle and the haystack is a little smaller :)
(Latest BSOD logs attached)
ICIT2LOL - thanks for the advice. I am kind of a little overwhelmed by all the information available in HWiNFO. I have saved a report as a .HTML and attached it to this post. I will continue to look through it myself - is the aim of this to find out if there is enough voltage being used by certain components? Or too much etc?
No worries Noob but just as a personal preference and I don't know if I mentioned it before I like to spread a thin layer of the compound on bot the cooler plate and the CPU using a vinyl glove then put that amount on the CPU. I also use the Arctic cleaning kit and compound but like I said I might have mentioned that before.
All being equal how one does this and ask is to open a can of worms because it floods the thread with different methods. So far I have never had a problem.
Arctic Silver Incorporated - ArctiClean < the preparation solution is just something else to get those surfaces perfectly clean and ready for the compound Arctic Silver Incorporated - Arctic Silver 5 to compliment it. However touching it after that has been done means redoing the prep.
My reason for spreading that initial layer (very thin) is that the bead - as in your pic - will "bleed" through it to cover the entire mating surfaces.
Now the HW Info I will check through soon and yes it is very detailed and the devil IS in the detail sometimes
Thanks very much for that ICIT2LOL. I used the Arctic cleaning kit as well as Arctic Silver 5 compound :)
I just went with the pea method as best I could, I agree with all of what you said about it though!
So as things stand with this I suppose I will start looking at warranty for the CPU? Unsure of what else to do.
Yup, look for the warranty and get it RMAd if it still is valid.
OK thanks, will look into it, sorry what does RMAd mean?