Stable but concerned

[Jtalk4456]

So I posted earlier about this pc and got video working. It turns on and shows video reliably. I want to make sure I don't hand it back and it dies again, so i backed up and checked event log. There had been a bsod notification that I screenshot but it froze so I figured I would find it in event viewer. I am not experienced yet to know what I'm looking at, so could some lovely people decode these for me? I took pics of any error or critical events over the last couple days working on it

[Jtalk4456]

[Jtalk4456]

[D13H4RD]

I use a program called BlueScreenView which gets the dumpfile and tells me where the fault occurred 

 

That can help narrow down where it happened 

[Jtalk4456]

51 minutes ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

I use a program called BlueScreenView which gets the dumpfile and tells me where the fault occurred 

 

That can help narrow down where it happened 

Thanks! Hadn't heard of that before

[Zenonly]

10 hours ago, Jtalk4456 said:

Thanks! Hadn't heard of that before

 

11 hours ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

I use a program called BlueScreenView which gets the dumpfile and tells me where the fault occurred 

 

That can help narrow down where it happened 

No need to be concerned,this happened all the time on my PC that it would randomly view errors in Bluescreen view on Windows 7 since I noticed that you still use that is cause of the "aero" effect

[Ace McPlane]

12 hours ago, Jtalk4456 said:

Thanks! Hadn't heard of that before

Unexpected shutdown errors?

Can be a number of things..

Without getting to deep into it, here are some things to try:

 

1. If anything is overclocked, remove the overclocks for now.

2. Download the USB version of memtest86, put it on a USB drive, and boot to it. Let that run for 24 hours. If there are any errors at all, there's a problem with your ram.

3. Download Aida64 and do a stress test on the CPU. Watch the temperatures and make  sure none of the cores go over 80 degrees. If it's getting hotter than that, shut it down immediately. If your temps are too high, you need to redo your thermal paste and possibly buy a new cooler if that doesn't work.

4. Try another power supply if that's a possibility. A bad PSU can cause unexpected shutdowns.

5. Clear the CMOS to reset your PC back to factory defaults. Read up on how to do that for your specific motherboard. Sometimes there's a button, sometimes there's a pinout, and sometimes you need to remove the little watch battery from the motherboard, wait 30 seconds and put it back in.

 

Those are the go to steps to troubleshoot this problem anyways

 

[Jtalk4456]

15 minutes ago, stateofpsychosis said:

Unexpected shutdown errors?

Can be a number of things..

Without getting to deep into it, here are some things to try:

 

1. If anything is overclocked, remove the overclocks for now.

2. Download the USB version of memtest86, put it on a USB drive, and boot to it. Let that run for 24 hours. If there are any errors at all, there's a problem with your ram.

3. Download Aida64 and do a stress test on the CPU. Watch the temperatures and make  sure none of the cores go over 80 degrees. If it's getting hotter than that, shut it down immediately. If your temps are too high, you need to redo your thermal paste and possibly buy a new cooler if that doesn't work.

4. Try another power supply if that's a possibility. A bad PSU can cause unexpected shutdowns.

5. Clear the CMOS to reset your PC back to factory defaults. Read up on how to do that for your specific motherboard. Sometimes there's a button, sometimes there's a pinout, and sometimes you need to remove the little watch battery from the motherboard, wait 30 seconds and put it back in.

 

Those are the go to steps to troubleshoot this problem anyways

 

1.  This is a 10 yr old gateway. If I tried to overclock it, it would catch on fire and burn to ashes

2. The original problem was a post code that indicated ram. I have replaced the ram and the post code is gone

3. With how old the PC is I'm scared to stress test it and break something that was hanging on by a thread of life

4. I'm actually ordering a new PSU today for it, one of the sata power cables had a cracked plastic casing and it was falling out of the cd drive

5. I was considering doing this, but i'm waiting for the PSU first, since I can't return it until i put that in

6. Thanks for the help!

[Ace McPlane]

5 minutes ago, Jtalk4456 said:

1.  This is a 10 yr old gateway. If I tried to overclock it, it would catch on fire and burn to ashes

2. The original problem was a post code that indicated ram. I have replaced the ram and the post code is gone

3. With how old the PC is I'm scared to stress test it and break something that was hanging on by a thread of life

4. I'm actually ordering a new PSU today for it, one of the sata power cables had a cracked plastic casing and it was falling out of the cd drive

5. I was considering doing this, but i'm waiting for the PSU first, since I can't return it until i put that in

6. Thanks for the help!

Cool, might be time to build a new one by the sounds of it.

If the cost of graphics cards is holding you back, here's a tip:

GTX 970's are crazy cheap on ebay. 150-200 bucks usually and they're powerful enough for VR so they're still very decent.

[Jtalk4456]

What's funny is how much I've adapted to win 10. Working on this win 7 computer made me realize how many of the settings I have already overwritten in my memory with win 10 equivalents

[Jtalk4456]

4 minutes ago, stateofpsychosis said:

Cool, might be time to build a new one by the sounds of it.

If the cost of graphics cards is holding you back, here's a tip:

GTX 970's are crazy cheap on ebay. 150-200 bucks usually and they're powerful enough for VR so they're still very decent.

the person I'm doing this for barely has the money to pay me, and I'm offering below most shops costs because it's my wifes coworker and we know he has almost no money

[Ace McPlane]

1 hour ago, Jtalk4456 said:

the person I'm doing this for barely has the money to pay me, and I'm offering below most shops costs because it's my wifes coworker and we know he has almost no money

Ah, shitty deals

well, I hope the new PSU works out then.

[Jtalk4456]

1 hour ago, stateofpsychosis said:

Ah, shitty deals

well, I hope the new PSU works out then.

hopefully