BSOD's Nearly Every Day Upon Boot

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Hello. About a week ago I built a new computer, and ran good in the first few days. About a week after building it, I got mostly memory management BSOD's after logging in or even at the login page. I've tried several possible solutions. Ran Windows Memory Diagnostics and came clean, ran disk checks on every storage device, came clean, updated drivers, and I still got BSOD's.

Parts I used for the build: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/CoolPCBuilds/saved/3WDLrH

What else should I do to fix these blue screens?

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No no. Windows memory check is absolutely useless.

Try running memtest 86 from a live USB. It takes a long time for that to run, so maybe do it over night or something.

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Alright, I've got Memtest86 onto this disk I had and I'll try it out at night. Thanks for the reply as well.

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Could always just roll back to windows 7, or reinstall 10

Is your CPU overclocked?

otherwise you could reseat your CPU/RAM.

Check your event viewer as well

Also off topic but like, if you're just gaming that build could have been a bit more optimized.

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Yeah I could reinstall Windows 10 if all else fails, and my CPU isn't overclocked. I was considering putting the memory modules on the other slots as well, see if that'll help. I'll be keeping my eye on the event viewer to see what's been going on, and answer to the last question, the build wasn't entirely put into gaming, more of a multipurpose computer and a huge upgrade from my last hardware. Thanks for the tips too.

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Run Memtest 86+ for as long as you can on both of the ram sticks but with one at the time, not both toghether. Before the Memtest try to disable the XMP profile if you're using it and try to boot into Windows and see what happens. Also be sure to use the correct ram slots as said by the manual for single and dual stick config.

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Alright, I ran Memtest86, got no errors. But, later I got a blue screen...

Then I took a look into the dump files and did some research about other causes. I then realized that all the small dump files were there after I installed a GPU driver. I then concluded that it was a GPU driver issue that's been causing the blue screens. Installed the driver I installed that was more stable, and the system is working good! Thank you guys for providing assistance in these past few days.

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Does it run fine after you shut it down fully and boot it up again?

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Yeah, I did shut down the computer earlier and powered it on. It did POST and got to the logon screen, and then the desktop without an error.

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Interesting, I have the same issue on a Phenom II X6, did you by any chance forget to plug in the CPU cooler fans when running it and it did a thermal shutdown?

It's possible it's your CPU being a lemon or being damaged somehow.

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It doesn't seem to be the CPU that's been causing the issue. Didn't have terrible temperatures and the fan on the heatsink was indeed running.

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Well, that was where my issue came from, and it is fairly similar to the issues you are having. Might be worth a shot looking at that route.

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Yeah there could be a chance of the CPU being part of the issue. If I notice irregular system behavior it'd be fine to take that direction.

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It's been about 3 days since I reinstalled an older version of the GPU driver from that supposedly unstable version, and I haven't seen any sort of irregular system behavior and/or blue screens. I thank you all for providing assistance these past few days. I'm surely going to benefit from them in the future.