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BSOD but only on certain programs, help needed!
Hey folks,
I've got a problem with my PC and I registered here to see if anyone can help. Basically it's BSOD whenever I open Thunderbird or Photoshop. It's only those two programs though from what I can tell, everything else is fine.
My PC was as stable as a rock up until last week, where once I turned it on it start showing the BSOD whenever I started up (it would get to the desktop, after about 10 secs it would bluescreen).
I'm not an expert, but not a novice either. I've built a few systems in my time and know that a lot of the time BSODs are either memory errors, hard drive errors or driver errors. So here what I've done so far-
Ran Memtest86 all day, no errors found.
Then I thought it might be my RAID0 playing up (I used to have a RAID0 with two 320Gb WD Hard Drives) which I kept all my apps and games on. I thought one might of failed, leading to the errors. Seeing as there wasn't any data on those I couldn't replace I got rid of the RAID and tried just using one of them with a new simple partition. There was partial success- the system could boot into windows fine. However, I had the problem I have now which was whenever I launched either Thunderbird or Photoshop, it would bluescreen. I tried reinstalling both programs to check it wasn't trying to find data on the previous RAID, but no luck.
Then the sound died. At the time I was running a Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Platinum. According to device manager, the device was functioning fine. But I had no audio output and the creative console failed to launch- saying there was no compatible card detected.
Knowing that creative sound cards have caused many a compatibility problem in the past with the new versions of Windows, I got rid of the sound card completely and reverted to on-board sound. I also completely removed the drivers and installed the motherboard ones. The on-board sound is fine, but it didn't stop the bluescreen errors.
Also tried using CCleaner and TuneUp utilities to fix any registry errors I might of gained by removing the RAID.
The temps on the system are fine, good even. I'm not running any overclock and the CPU is running 25-35 idle and I've rarely seen it go past 40. Motherboard is around 30. I've run memtest for hours and no errors have been found.
This is where I am now. I can run pretty much everything fine as far as I know- I used the PC all day yesterday for web browsing, playing games and watching films with chrome, steam, VLC, itunes etc. It seems to be just Thunderbird and Photoshop causing the BSOD, and I'm out of ideas.