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BSOD remains after attempted hardware fixes 0000000000000003
I started having trouble with fairly random freezes and BSODs. I ran Speedfan and noticed my old GPU (a Radeon 4870) was running a temp of ~61-65C. The cpu was also hot, running upwards of 90C.
I ordered an Nvidia 740 after reading they ran fairly cool, and didn't want to buy a high end card for this older PC that I'm trying to keep alive at least until the end of grad school.
When the new graphics card arrived, I decided to give the case a thorough cleaning, vacuuming out dust bunnies. I removed the fan from the CPU heatsink and found about 2mm of dust blanketing it. After cleaning that off with paper dampened with isopropyl alcohol, the CPU runs at a reasonable 35C. When not gaming the GPU stays under 30C.
After thinking all was better, I booted up this afternoon, only to have it freeze up (hourglass when mouse over start menu, followed by screen going completely black (didn't even see the blue screen this time. On reboot, I got "Windows has recovered from a serious error, with the same codes as before my attempted repairs/cleaning:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: f4
BCP1: 0000000000000003
BCP2: FFFFFA800B0F7B10
BCP3: FFFFFA800B0F7DF0
BCP4: FFFFF80003380E70
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 256_1
This PC is something I put together a few years ago
Specs:
AsRock M3a790gxh128m
AMD Phenom II x3 720
recent 2x4GB GSkill Ripjaws plus older OCZ Reaper 2x2Gb (12Gb total, all tested good by memtest 86)
Samsung 850Evo 500GB
I'd really appreciate any insight you might have
Thanks,
Karl