What can possibly went wrong???

[Supersonicwolfe]

Well I reinstalled my dad’s computer from scratch this Monday, and today

( Wednesday) it started to spit out BSOD some every 10-20 minutes... only one instance it lasted more than half an hour when I went for lunch while letting it to do a chkdsk on an external drive, but it crashed shortly after I returned) and the funny part is the BSOD code is different every time... (except once). The BSOD happened seemed randomly, sometimes after start up before login, other times it happened when my Dad was paying a online poker game, as well as when he tried to print from it.

So, can it be the motherboard and/or powersupply is/are failing? It is a old computer and the motherboard was fixed at local pc shop once (apparently they had to replace a component on the board, and the board after repairing doesn’t store date/time after pulling the plug, even with a fresh CMOS battery and no clear CMOS jumper/switch was triggered).

 

More infos:

I managed to do a Microsoft memory test and no error was reported...

2x 2GB ram was bought “new” last November, one 2GB ram is in there since 2008. (I recently removed a 2GB ram in mid-late December due to some ram related BSOD, and it didn’t had any BSOD until aforementioned reinstall on Monday due to a wired printer driver issue.

 

The SSD is a Samsung 860 EVO bought new last November and a 1TB Seagate was bought in June.

The CPU, motherboard, video card, and power supply are from Lenovo ( 2008 K300 desktop with Q8300 and ATI 45xx graphics card)

 

 

[2SidedPolygon]

What do you mean "reinstalled" the computer? Are you referring to a reinstallation of Windows?

[SupaKomputa]

clean the memory, use a pencil erase on the gold fins.

then download and run Memtest86.

to clear cmos, just remove the battery for 10 seconds and put it back (power unplugged).

[Supersonicwolfe]

49 minutes ago, 2SidedPolygon said:

What do you mean "reinstalled" the computer? Are you referring to a reinstallation of Windows?

Reinstalling Windows10 (1089) yes.

[2SidedPolygon]

3 minutes ago, Supersonicwolfe said:

Reinstalling Windows10 (1089) yes.

Something might have gone wrong with the installation, but it's hard to say what exactly.

[Supersonicwolfe]

2 minutes ago, 2SidedPolygon said:

Something might have gone wrong with the installation, but it's hard to say what exactly.

I think that is highly unlikely since it worked normally on the rest of the Monday and Tuesday.

My suspect is the motherboard... since the BSOD is so random 

[Supersonicwolfe]

58 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

clean the memory, use a pencil erase on the gold fins.

then download and run Memtest86.

to clear cmos, just remove the battery for 10 seconds and put it back (power unplugged).

I had done that about a month ago, only didn’t test them with memtest86. (I mentioned in that previous diagnosis I found a possibility faulty ram stick, the PC ran normally until today )

And I think I mentioned the montherboard loses BIOS setting after getting unplugged, even with the CMOS battery in.

[SupaKomputa]

Your pc can run without the battery on you know, it just will loose the settings and defaulted everytime you shutdown the system.

Your problem can be anything from motherboard to the memory.

Running Memtest86 at least will make sure its the memory.

It is more precise than what windows have.