blue screen on start up sometimes

[JeremyJMO]

i need help getting blue screen on start up sometimes... i ran Prime95 and 3dmark11 and memtest86 all is fine nothing is overclocked

here my specs of my PC

Case - Corsair Carbide Series 400R

CPU - AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6GHz Socket AM3+

MOBO - GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+

PS - OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI 700W

RAM - CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600

Fans & Heatsinks - CORSAIR Hydro Series H100 - Corsair Air Series SP120 High Performance Edition

SSD - SAMSUNG 840 Series MZ-7TD250BW 2.5" 250GB

VideoCard - ASUS ENGTX560 DCII OC/2DI/1GD5 GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5

and White LEDS

any help would be great thanx

[glutesontheloose]

It could be driver errors. Check and update your hardware drivers as they may be causing the BSOD. :)

[Draex]

Need more information on what error the bluescreen is reporting. If needed disable automatic restarts on system failure

[Dragon_Cannon]

There could be a short somewhere and the power supply turns off to save your system

The power that is coming out of the wall socket could fluctuate too much and cause the power supply to shut down.

Monitor the temps that are coming off the CPU and if they are high when the system shuts down the cooler might not be on properly so the bios shuts down to save the CPU.

[JeremyJMO]

all drivers up to date first thing i looked in to .. when its on never gets bluescreen only sometimes when i restart it gets the home screens then bluescreens but not all the times tho .. ill look in to that Draex .... thanx

[Oby]

Write down the error code which is shown on blue screen and post it here or search on google. Also you can go to Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Event viewer and select Windows Logs->System and search for error around the time when you got BSOD.

[Dragon_Cannon]

How long did you run prime95 for?

[Money]

It really sounds like it could be a RAM problem.

[Katze]

How far does your system get into boot? Does it make it past BIOS and into the OS?

If yes, try starting in safemode.

Could be a memory issue, Faulty RAM can cause system instability and "Bluescreens", Try completely replacing your RAM (Borrow some off a friend or something), If your cant get a hold of "Working" RAM, take out all of your ram and add one at a time till the problem appears. NOTE: This can SOMETIMES work. If that fixes the problem, then one or more of your sticks are probably faulty, or one of your RAM slots on your motherboard.

[Money]

I had a faulty DIMM slot on my mobo. The symptoms: Very random and frequent blue screens, everything is just very unstable and prone to crashing.

[AvoK95]

Try to remove your graphics card and use just one stick of RAM and see if it blue screens. If it does, swap your RAM sticks, if it doesn't, add the other RAM stick. If it still doesn't, reattach your graphics card and run OCCT to stress your graphics card and check for errors. I had a 560Ti from Asus with the DCUII cooler and the card's VRAM got corrupted somehow.

[Katze]

I had a RAM slot in one of my motherboards die in the past, it caused bluescreens when a stick of RAM was using the faulty slot. Very annoying!

[JeremyJMO]

Dragon_Cannon i ran prime95 for 24 hours ...ChaoticWolf it gets in to windows then about 10 secs in then bluescreens .. i have tryed taking ram out and testin each one they all boot up fine i have tryed one at a time then 2 at a time ... only thing i cant take out is my graphics card only have one of them on hand and its my main card ..

but it only does this sometimes last nite when i restarted my pc is didnt bluescreen it booted up just fine and i can play games just fine never happens only on restart up sometimes

[Blankie440]

I would try them one at a time in each slot. I'm sure you put them one at a time into DIMM 0 but DIMM 1-3 could be the issue so I'd try a single stick of RAM rotating it into each slot and testing.

[Johnmini]

I would suggest the same as a lot of other people have, One thing I didn't see someone say is check your event viewer for more then just the BSOD errors, check to see if there are any errors right before a restart that blue screened on you.

Also make sure your motherboard bios are up to date there might be a mix of drivers it doesn't like although this is very unlikely seeing as its not happening 100% of the time.

[JeremyJMO]

i just checked all the drivers r up to date for everything .. i just restarted a few times now and it has happen i dont know whats the deal is

[JeremyJMO]

thanx for all the help

[ionbasa]

Hey can you attach a minidump file?

1. Copy any dmp files from C:\Windows\Minidump onto the desktop.

2. Select all of them, right-click on one, and click on Send To> New Compressed (zipped) Folder.

3. Attach the zip to your post

I can try to take a look at it under the Windows SDK and see what the fault was from.

[Rajiv]

Try updating the BIOS, i had that problem before and now its fixed. It was a RAM problem but the updated BIOS fixed it.

[SLOtimoSLO]

We need a code man.

[mgsstar]

Is it possible to post what the bsod code is by using a bsod viewer like BlueScreenView? 

Link: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html