I have went into my minidump folder and nothing is in it...
I have had the BSOD 3 times in three days. It's happening mostly when I'm gaming, I have done the prime 95 cpu stress test and memory stress test for one hour each (didn't blue screen). I have gone into the windows event log and it said it was a kernel 41 (The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first). I have a good psu (evga bronze 600w) with a i5 4690k and a r9 280 graphics card.
What clock speed is your I5 running at? What motherboard and RAM combination? That Psu isn't very good, so that may be partially responsible.
I was running at 4ghz for my overclock but I changed it to stock 3.5ghz yesterday. It blue screened again today so I don't think that is the problem. I have 2x8gb ram from hyperx. My motherboard is an asrock H97M Pro4.
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run heaven for a while, see what happens
I don't think its the psu fault because I looked at the reviews for the product and most of them are over 4 stars.
we need to know. there's more than ratings to a psu
He said Evga 600 watt bronze, which is a mediocre unit.
need the specific model.
The only one Evga sells in 600 watt bronze is this one: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-power-supply-100b10600kr
600w should be okay, but barely.
From what you've said, it can be one of two things. It is either your power supply, which is plausable as the units internals aren't great by any means, or the more likely suspect being your motherboard. Overclocking on that motherboard should not be done as the board is not sporting an overclocking 'certified' chipset or, more importantly, a beefy power delivery system. You should not overclock on any intel chipset but a Z*7 skew. Those boards are designed to be capable of delivering enough power while remaining as stable as possible, whilst the H97 board you have is designed to be just good enough to be stable at stock speeds. Overclocking should not be done on a board like this one.
He said it earlier
yeah... i saw that just now.
dragon, read http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f299/how-to-check-computer-is-set-to-collect-dumps-655633.html
Can you upload the dumps to something like dropbox or mega/mediafire for us to have a look at them?
EDIT: Notice you said nothing is in it.
EDIT2: Force a BOSD and see if you can tell us the error code.
he doesn't have any
I would say reset the clock speed to default and if that does not work, you could if you have one put another hard drive in the computer, reinstall the OS and then see if it still blue screens. A part of me does think the operating system is at fault, but I have a similar build with the same motherboard and there was a blue screen of death that I got.
already did. read the thread. i don't really think it's the os here, but we will see.
Alright what we need to do here . Is we need a good memory dump. Go ahead and push winkey + pause/break open advanced system settings.. On start up and recovery hit settings. There will be a drop down box that says some kind of memory dump... Click it and switch to complete. Then upload it to drive. I will debug it with my program see what I can find. Flipped bits can be seen on a complete memory dump
Also that is a business board it does not have the required validation for overclocking. I am thinking its likely your overclock but hey we need dumps. if you can get one
The generations from the last couple of years have been okay with EVGA so the 600 watts of power is more than sufficient for what he is going to do. Leave it be.. I can figure out if the computer is browning out from a complete memory dump. That is what I need