Pc BSODing on start up?

[colonel_mortis]

http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed

useful tool which gives you a human-readable BSOD analysis for free. It tells you which program/driver crashed and whether it's likely to be hardware or software. However, I had some BSODs after OCing and it said they were likely to be software bugs - turns out it was actually a very unstable overclock. It's a good starting point for troubleshooting though.

[YoYo155]

http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed

useful tool which gives you a human-readable BSOD analysis for free. It tells you which program/driver crashed and whether it's likely to be hardware or software. However, I had some BSODs after OCing and it said they were likely to be software bugs - turns out it was actually a very unstable overclock. It's a good starting point for troubleshooting though.

Nothing is like the debugger IMHO ^_^

[sprunk]

The memory.dmp file seems to be to big to upload even when compressed? It is 113mb? Where to go from here?

[colonel_mortis]

Just try upping the voltage/reducing the clock. It's possible that it's randomly causing software errors, causing a BSOD. You can't identify it in a crash dump because it looks like a critical piece of software bugged out and crashed (different software each time). On a similar thread, this solved it. As you've had the PC a while (ish), it's possible that the capacitors etc are degrading, so the power distribution is getting worse, causing a previously stable PC to start crashing. It also accounts for why it's been getting more frequent.

[sprunk]

Just try upping the voltage/reducing the clock. It's possible that it's randomly causing software errors, causing a BSOD. You can't identify it in a crash dump because it looks like a critical piece of software bugged out and crashed (different software each time). On a similar thread, this solved it. As you've had the PC a while (ish), it's possible that the capacitors etc are degrading, so the power distribution is getting worse, causing a previously stable PC to start crashing. It also accounts for why it's been getting more frequent.

I tried reducing the clock to 3000mhz and still have a problem,Any ideas?

[colonel_mortis]

Try to boot off a live USB (something like Ubuntu) and see whether it works then. The only other thing I can suggest is to take out all non-essential parts (take out the sound card, GPU (as long as you have integrated), and all but 1 module of RAM, and possibly the HDD) and see if it works. If it does, try putting them back one by one and see where it stops working. I would suggest it might be on the sound card, but I don't know.

Hope you get it working!

[sprunk]

Try to boot off a live USB (something like Ubuntu) and see whether it works then. The only other thing I can suggest is to take out all non-essential parts (take out the sound card, GPU (as long as you have integrated), and all but 1 module of RAM, and possibly the HDD) and see if it works. If it does, try putting them back one by one and see where it stops working. I would suggest it might be on the sound card, but I don't know.

Hope you get it working!

Thanks man. I am going to disconnect both drives tomorrow and try a fresh install on a spare hard drive. I don't think its the sound card cause iI had this problem before that was installed, though I will try that if all else fails. I will post back if I find a solution

[sprunk]

Ok. Disconnected both drives and reinstalled windows on a spare hard drive. So far I have no problems (touch wood). I am going to run it like that for a week just to be sure. Thanks for your help everybody. :)  If it runs ok for a week I might try to reinstall windows on my ssd to see if that works  before I RMA it.