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So, Having been using Folding at home since the time of the PS3, I thought it would be neat to load it onto my PC since it has so much unused CPU power in the course of my studying schedule (I know better than to run it and Game at the same time).

However, after running it on "Medium" folding setting, I find that it is blue-screening me. Other than my usual background processes (and an instance of Chrome to study), I have nothing else running.

I find this behavior very odd since my CPU is far from its thermal and usage maximums, and it has been stable in every conceivable benchmark for hours.

Is there more at work than I am aware of that is leading my rig to be unstable running this program? 

Thoughts and insight greatly appreciated. 

I would LIKE to be able to run simultaneous CPU and GPU workloads, but that is another issue for another post.

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happens to me too. I found out that you cannot run it with medium and have any browsers open. i tried Chrome, FF, IE and Opera. Any of them open, you crash or lag out

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happens to me too. I found out that you cannot run it with medium and have any browsers open. i tried Chrome, FF, IE and Opera. Any of them open, you crash or lag out

Funnily enough I don't have this problem.... I fold on medium AND high depending on what I'm doing but will generally run high while streaming videos, but medium on both cpu and gpu while playing low requirement games like GMOD and I NEVER bluescreen....

 

I always have about 10-15 chrome tabs, teamspeak, skype and generally a game open while folding...

 

Are your CPU's overclocked? try toning it down 100mhz or so, see if that helps.

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Funnily enough I don't have this problem.... I fold on medium AND high depending on what I'm doing but will generally run high while streaming videos, but medium on both cpu and gpu while playing low requirement games like GMOD and I NEVER bluescreen....

 

I always have about 10-15 chrome tabs, teamspeak, skype and generally a game open while folding...

 

Are your CPU's overclocked? try toning it down 100mhz or so, see if that helps.

 

Persuant to this advice, I reduced both my GPU and CPU OC's to stock and tried again. Still having the issue.

Not sure if this points to a components issue or not. Again, never have issues running any benchmarks or stability tests.

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Persuant to this advice, I reduced both my GPU and CPU OC's to stock and tried again. Still having the issue.

Not sure if this points to a components issue or not. Again, never have issues running any benchmarks or stability tests.

Whats the bsod code/error message?

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Persuant to this advice, I reduced both my GPU and CPU OC's to stock and tried again. Still having the issue.

Not sure if this points to a components issue or not. Again, never have issues running any benchmarks or stability tests.

On the GPU case, the "stock" settings was a "stock factory OC" or literally the official Nvidia stock clocks? If it's the first, I suggest trying the 2nd, as it is know that factory OCs can (rarely, once in a blue moon) cause problems.

 

At any rate, try even going as far as underclocking it a bit, see if that solves it.

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WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE ERROR... since downgraded from Windows 10, have yet to reinstall and try again.

By the looks of it some drivers stayed installed from win10 and its breaking your current version. I doubt you've got memory/mobo errors from changing Windows versions...

Try following this: http://wind8apps.com/fix-whea_uncorrectable_error-windows-8-1/

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Funnily enough I don't have this problem.... I fold on medium AND high depending on what I'm doing but will generally run high while streaming videos, but medium on both cpu and gpu while playing low requirement games like GMOD and I NEVER bluescreen....

 

I always have about 10-15 chrome tabs, teamspeak, skype and generally a game open while folding...

 

Are your CPU's overclocked? try toning it down 100mhz or so, see if that helps.

rather amusingly I started F@H for stability testing and to get rid of coil whine. it worked for both and I fold whenever I can stand my room being 95+

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rather amusingly I started F@H for stability testing and to get rid of coil whine. it worked for both and I fold whenever I can stand my room being 95+

I started because it looked fun, restarted it to remove the coil whine of my 970, Its still fun.

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I started because it looked fun, restarted it to remove the coil whine of my 970, Its still fun.

my parents get confused as to why the room is so warm though...

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Other things to look at - how stable is your power supply? Are the PSU cables good and solid?

 

Run a program like HWmonitor to keep an eye on voltages and temps. Typically BSOD's only occur when folding because of temps or stupid power draws that a cheap PSU can reliably handle...

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