New PC - Occasional blue screen

[JG26_EZ]

I have a brand new PC downstairs (a year old now).
It gave me the blue screen of death multiple times, so I took it into the shop to see what the problem was.. 5 visits later they still didn't figure out my problem.. So, it still sits downstairs collecting dust.

I feel for ya Farber.

[NedLynch]

It happened to me as well a while ago and in my case it was a bad ram stick even though I got all kinds of errors with my bsods.
Took me a while to figure it out.
Try taking out a stick and just running with one, well depending on your configuration (2x4gb or 4x2gb?).
To check temps I highly recommend to go to cpuid.com and get their hardware monitor, at the same time you might as well get their cpu-z utility.
Run the hardware monitor and check your cpu temps as well as the gpu temps.
Another usefull tool to set a custom fan profile (besides other things) is MSI's afterburner to avoid overheating of the gpu.
All these utilities are free and 100% safe to use.
But like I wrote, my first guess would be, as others indicated, a bad ram stick.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Originally Posted by addman

Might be bad stick(s), not too uncommon.


Ok, so the GFX was factory overclocked then?

Maybe and yes.

Originally Posted by addman

How are the temps in the case? Do you have any fans blowing in and/or out air?

Normal. Case fan blows out.

Originally Posted by addman

EDIT: Have you connected the 6 pin PCI-E cable from the PSU to the HD6850?

Yes.

Originally Posted by GF_Mastiff

go into the event viewer...

Originally Posted by GF_Mastiff

Also make sure chip-sets are up to date i.e AMD or Intel

What?

Originally Posted by GF_Mastiff

Check this site-out guru3d.com go through the down load sections make sure you have the latest drivers direct x installed?

Will do, yes Direct X is installed - both 9 and 11 I believe.

Originally Posted by JG26_EZ

I feel for ya Farber.

Thanks

Originally Posted by NedLynch

But like I wrote, my first guess would be, as others indicated, a bad ram stick.

I will consider that as an option.



Its proberbly at this point (as the crictical error is kernal power) I should mention the power button on my case wont connect to the MoBo, Im waiting to get my hands on three pairs instead of this backward internal USB plug. I am staring it with a screw driver - shorting the pins...

Also this MoBo has an onboard gfx chipset. The drivers are not installed and its using the gfx card in device manager.

[NedLynch]

Now that is an awfully strange way to turn on a comp. What kind of case is that. I thouhgt powerbutton connections are standardised by now.
And the internal gfx chipset on the mobo should not matter at all if you have your gfx card installed with drivers, as you do.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Its a HP case. Imagine the internal connector of a USB port, it has a blank in one corner, now mirror the image. - Thats what the pin connect looks like. However the ASUS MoBo uses 3 paired seperate connectors. 1 pair for reset, 1 pair for power, 1 pair for LED's. I put a jumper across the power and hope I could turn it on from the PSU switch but no joy.

[SlipBall]

Try running the "windows experience index"...computer/properties/WEI...
will analyze the ram, your card, hd's etc.

[5./JG27.Farber]

I ran it before, I just re ran it.

Processor 7.3
RAM 7.6
Graphics 7.7 (this was 5.2 before?!)
Gaming Graphics 7.7
Hard Disk 5.9

System
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Manufacturer System manufacturer
Model System Product Name
Total amount of system memory 8.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2

Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 699 GB
Disk partition (C 616 GB Free (699 GB Total)
Media drive (D CD/DVD

Graphics
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Display adapter type AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
Total available graphics memory 4855 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 1024 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 3831 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.950.0.0
Primary monitor resolution 1920x1080
DirectX version DirectX 10

Network
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Network Adapter Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller

Notes
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The gaming graphics score is based on the primary graphics adapter. If this system has linked or multiple graphics adapters, some software applications may see additional performance benefits.




Number of Cores 2? WTF?

Ok the box the mother board came in says:
AMD 760G Chipset
AMD phenom II X6

It also says something about core unlocker? I thought it was a quad core and in task manager it shows 4 cores. However here it says 2? Also on the boot screen it says press 4 to unlock cores.

This is the board:

http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_...USB3/#overview

[Thee_oddball]

i have found that these random and unrelated BSOD have to do with a item not seated properly, I would reseat your video card mem and make sure all conecctions are tight,

also please put up the model number of your ram, this does not apply all the time but once in a while it does http://usa.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD...5A78LM_LX/#MSL

infact post all the model numbers for everything you have on the PC