saltystew

I reformatted a couple of hours ago and crashed a few minutes ago, was just on desktop in a web browser, my speaker drivers apparently stopped working then my windows explorer process disappeared and i got a blue screen. Minidump file. Could it be motherboard failure?

I have a total of 3 power supplies in the house, one of which is already in my computer and is the one I think may have problems. One of the others is really old and only 500w, and the second one was bought off ebay and I tried it as well and it also made me crash. But for all I know it's faulty as well. It was very cheap.

I wouldn't say its a completely stupid post. I said I didn't know what to do. And now that you've mentioned drivers I did forget to say above that when I swapped to the new card and back to the old I used the guru removal tool, to completely remove all the driver files, not sure how well it works or if that changes anything. And I am willing to do a windows reinstall but will that fix it? I hate reinstalling windows, and if it can be avoided that would be nice, it'd be pretty annoying to reinstall it all and still have all these problems.

Edit: I did use the guru driver removal tool before installing the 970 and before going back to my 650ti. I got a gigabyte gtx 970 today and I can't play anything really. It will crash almost immediately, and by crash I don't always mean a blue screen, sometimes it just turns my computer off and restarts it. And on those times no dump file is created. This whole setup minus the 970 was working perfectly fine for the last year and a half no crashes, no nothing, perfect. I have bluescreenview and I've looked up all the names of anything that seems relevant and I get no where, the first two seems to be something about bad hard drives or bad ram. I swapped the ram out with some other ram I had that is of a lower quantity, still crashed. Hard drives, I don't know if any of them are messed up, I have two ssd's and one normal hdd. The third says something about new hardware, which is the crash that happened after i changed to the other ram. And the fourth crash happened when I changed to another psu I had laying around, because I thought maybe my newer psu wasn't working currently even though it turned on. Games I tried to play: Elite: Dangerous, Star Citizen, Witcher 2, and Killing Floor 2. Tried them at max settings and lowest settings, usually crash right after I get into game, though I crashed on kf2 while sitting in the lobby. Weird. After switching the ram back and fourth and doing the same to the psu I now also receive errors while playing games on my trusty 650ti. Tried to play kf2 on it and after killing 10 or so zombies I crashed. So now my possibly defective gpu is probably not defective and my whole computer decided that today is the day that she dies... I have rechecked all cables and everything, the only thing I haven't done is update my bios (which are quite out dated to be honest), and the reason for that is I can never find a good way to update them because everyone I've heard talk about updating msi bios, says they're stupid as hell and you run the chance of bricking your mobo. Please help me. Minidump files. PC specs: Dual Monitor: Asus VG248QE 24" on displayport, samsung something 27" on HDMI PSU: EVGA 750w B2 Bronze Certified CPU: i5-4670 GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970 (New), MSI GTX 650ti (old) RAM: HyperX 16GBs (4x4gb) Motherboard: MSI z87-g43 Storage: Samsung 840 evo 250gb ssd, pny optima 240gb ssd, western digital 1gb hdd

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