Ok mate well if it means staying with 10 then it can be customised a fair bit by you to resemble 7 I have my Sandy Bridge set up as in my pic and frankly it runs fines and is quite a bit faster than even my clocked Ivy Bridge 7 (Sandy is unclocked)
yeah, no worries, i'm fairly good at optimizing windows. i actually removed cortana completely (although i did keep a backup of the files) even tho it's a bit annoying it's better than wasting cpu usage (right now i get 5% cpu usage at most idle, but generally not even that). also, so far, no bsods, but who knows, might be just like the last time.
Yep well I sent Cortana somewhere myself as you can see from my pic - just another unnecessary piece of clutter. As for saving it well I just made a rescue disk a but am not even contemplating using it only if I really need to and only because two of my machine are upgrades.
well, it seems i have no luck. just got another bsod, same as the last time.
the good side is that it appeared only today, and i know the programs i installed yesterday, so i might be able to fix it, if it's software related. else, i might just have to live with it.
update: no such luck, at least not any program installed yesterday.
at this point i'd kinda give up. i can live with a random bsod for now, i guess, since i imagine it's a hardware issue at this point, and i can't really afford buying anything else right now.
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Ok without wanting to appear nosey just what where those programs I would be very loathe to install anything that promised a clean up of the registry or tune up software??
Can you send the dump again please?
Ok now I am assuming this is an older machine? only because I see it is a dual core CPU in a desktop - not that that is unusual but again my gut feeling.
Now if you will bear with me can you again run the HW Info as per post#2 only please run PART A:
Using HW Info
PART A:
You can test the volts on the PSU with HW Info HWiNFO, HWiNFO32/64 - Download < download the right bit version and close the right hand window select Sensors and scroll down to the power section where you will see what the volts are doing see my pic. Now the section you want will be labelled - fpr example Asus boards usually have "Nuvoton" and Gigabyte boards "ITE" in any case the section you want will have Vbatt or VBAT in it (dead give away)
The original right hand window shows the machine running and is handy for that but for looking at the components in some detail close it and use the main left hand side panel
see my pic for what that section looks like
Now this was present in the dumps
Which at first look seems to have something to do with the processor BSODCode:FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT_2_PROC_ANALYSIS_INCONCLUSIVE BUCKET_ID: CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT_2_PROC_ANALYSIS_INCONCLUSIVE ANALYSIS_SOURCE: KM FAILURE_ID_HASH_STRING: km:clock_watchdog_timeout_2_proc_analysis_inconclusive
Plus this is pointing to the graphics driver or more likely the OSCode:FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x9F_3_POWER_DOWN_nvlddmkm_IMAGE_pci.sys BUCKET_ID: 0x9F_3_POWER_DOWN_nvlddmkm_IMAGE_pci.sys ANALYSIS_SOURCE: KM FAILURE_ID_HASH_STRING: km:0x9f_3_power_down_nvlddmkm_image_pci.sys
http://threadposts.org/question/2267...-start-up.html
Now we have been going on here for a while and to get you sorted I might call in some help because I am no real expert if that is ok with you.
yeah, my setup is about 8 years old, except for the cpu fan, graphics card and ram.
i don't think my mobo has the sensors to correctly display the voltages (see the pic). also cpu was 1.300~ and gpu 1.075V.
as i said, if you are still motivated i can keep going as well, at this point i'd like to know what the cause of this issue is, since the bsods i got seem to be very general.
Ok mate I admire that you have stuck it out this long - all credit to you as there have been times when folks start to whinge about nothing getting done.
Now I don't know if you have a digital multimeter (usually can pick one up for about $5 - $10 if you have or can get one they are handy for other jobs too then you could physically test that 24 pin board plug using any of the black cables to test the volts on the other colours.
I am asking because as Scott Mueller (an authority on computer stuff) says the PSU is very often overlooked as a source of a lot of problems and issues and is probably the most important component in any machine because with no power then no function - it isn't rocket science
Now to find what is what in those colours see this Power supply unit (computer - Wikipedia)
If you scroll down the page you will find the map of the colours for the different voltages. You can also use one of the mobo fixing points as the ground reference (black lead) to test the volts as this will also give you an idea of how good the connections are in that plug and socket.
The meter will also have a resistance setting that can be used to test the continuity between the incoming black lead from the PSU to the board if that is faulty them there is a another problem to be sorted but it is in most machines usually ok.
As I mentioned the meter black lead to any black on that plug and the red lea to the other colours. It is also handy to test the power to any cards too.
thanks, the least i can do, since i'm the one who asked.
i looked it up, and in country at least, there's nothing decent that would cost less than half of the money i put in the cpu, so to run this test, it might take me a few weeks if i can't get it done today.
still, opened to opinions.
update: seems like no luck with this either. gonna have to wait.
Last edited by ration; 11 Nov 2016 at 13:06.
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