Can CPU casue BSOD

[Demonking]

I'm thinking of RMA my I5 4670K cause it may have a bad memory controller which cause me to have random BSOD. I RMA the motherboard suspecting its memory controller is the cause now im suspecting the CPU since the Z87-A CPU led would light up when i wake it from sleep or even a cold boot having me to shut it down & turn it on & off again til i get a display only to have it say resuming windows when i wake it from sleep when it won't turn on i'll try to get a post from my last thread to show you my passed issue. Note im getting a new motherboard from asus.

[Demonking]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/92317-bsod/

 

in this link is my past post of the issue & someone linked me to a thread on techpower of someone having a similar issue & this was the cause, i think  when i used who crashed this was also the same thing i got from it saying this may of been the problem Ntoskrnl.exe

[meneervent]

A CPU can easily cause a BSOD when overclocked, normally because it didn't get enough voltage. If you didn't overclock however this shouldn't be an issue. I recommend you go to the guides and tutorials subforum, I remember a guide there which showed how to read out a BSOD to see what went wrong. Maybe a faulty driver caused it. 

[killcomic]

Ntoskrnl.exe? Could be CPU or RAM... how's your PSU?

[Demonking]

A CPU can easily cause a BSOD when overclocked, normally because it didn't get enough voltage. If you didn't overclock however this shouldn't be an issue. I recommend you go to the guides and tutorials subforum, I remember a guide there which showed how to read out a BSOD to see what went wrong. Maybe a faulty driver caused it. 

i did overclock but i cleared the CMOS & was having the CPU led coming on issue before i overclocked. but after i used the switch on the board to overclock i got a BSOD when i tried to play borderlands to then i reset then no more BSOD for a while till now also i suspected the SDD but i got a new 1 from kingston & borrowed a set of ram from a friend it still BSOD after that so im ruling them out since they have not caused me any issues with my past AMD build

[Demonking]

Ntoskrnl.exe? Could be CPU or RAM... how's your PSU?

Corsair HX 750w 80 plus gold no issues from it either that i notice

[killcomic]

What happens if you disconnect the SSD and use the mechanical drive? Do you still BSOD?

[Demonking]

What happens if you disconnect the SSD and use the mechanical drive? Do you still BSOD?

i did that once & got a BSOD when i sent off my SDD

[killcomic]

i did that once & got a BSOD when i sent off my SDD

Man... I'm running out of ideas now. How about taking the video card off the equation and using the processor's GPU? Probably not, but we're running out of components. Either that or PSU.

 

BTW, any funky devices attached to your PC?

[Demonking]

Man... I'm running out of ideas now. How about taking the video card off the equation and using the processor's GPU? Probably not, but we're running out of components. Either that or PSU.

 

BTW, any funky devices attached to your PC?

no i used my gpu with the all amd build so its not the issue. and no funky devices other than my mouse k70 arcade stick xbox 360 controller all which worked fine on the amd build

[meneervent]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/96083-how-to-diagnose-bsods-blue-screen/

[Valhallatier]

if a CPU is faulty, then the pc won't even boot. so NO.
except if you put it at load then BSOD

[Demonking]

if a CPU is faulty, then the pc won't even boot. so NO.

except if you put it at load then BSOD

that doesn't explain why the motherboard cpu led lights up from a cold boot & sleep mode having me to turn it off & on til the light goes off then it boots