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haxereth

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BSOD+More (updated)

Ok so I am pretty sure it's the motherboard or the ram here.

Anyway i've had a safe overclock (prime95 ran for 3-4 hours+) on my 1055T build for a few months now then I got 2 BSOD's within a few days so I went to try to take the OC back down a tiny bit and play around with it to make it stable again and I couldn't get it to work good so I just brought it back to stock clock to start from scratch when I had time but I STILL got some BSOD's so I read one of them and it was PFN_LIST_CORRUPT and I searched and saw it may be the ram so I ran a memtest and left it there all day and no problems showed so I continued to use it and was rendering something when it crashed again, and after multiple prime95 tests it just plain freezes after the first few minutes... Also I tested for viruses and there is not anything on my computer. So then I got the bright idea to just post a thread here so I don't waste a few more days.

Oh and the temps are pretty low in case anyone is wondering so that has nothing to do with it (and I added the extra 10c for the 1055T since it's supposed to show low temp.

PS:

It's my Main Computer in my system specs.

and the g.skill ram is 1600 ram and when it was OC'd I had it set lower than that.


UPDATE:
tested the ram, it's good, flashed the mobo with a new bios update and it's still happening.
so it's becoming a real pain. I can't figure out what it is. I'm beginning to think it's either the motherboard or the PSU. Mainly because the motherboard was bought used (not too old though) and after some of the BSODs when I start it back up the fans start up, but then the CPU fan stops and the graphics card fan keeps speeding up and slowing down over and over again.

Oh and it can run 24/7 just fine but when I am multitasking with like 3 adobe CS4 programs open, pandora and a bunch of pages up in the background and some other stuff up it crashes a bit..
 
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Checkdisk, unstable overclocks can corrupt OS files :(
 
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Checkdisk, unstable overclocks can corrupt OS files :(

Yup, and it's a damn shame! BIOS chips should have a built in memory testing program for a quick check before booting into OS.

@haxereth
When OCing anything, I just chuck a CD with memtest on into the cd drive and boot off of that to give a quick check, a couple of minutes will do, just so you know you can at least boot into windows. It seems that the corruption (caused by the unstable overclock) occurs when it BSOD's while booting (AFAIK getting a BSOD when you're already in Windows won't corrupt the OS).
 

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The thing is it's been working fine 100% but I realized somehow it changed from 3.7ghz to 3.4ghz and then that's when I couldn't get it back due to the so I reset the overclock back to normal.
 

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update, I flashed the bios with the latest version and it restarted while I was gone today and It was only using like 25% CPU...
 

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UPDATE:
tested the ram, it's good, flashed the mobo with a new bios update and it's still happening.
so it's becoming a real pain. I can't figure out what it is. I'm beginning to think it's either the motherboard or the PSU. Mainly because the motherboard was bought used (not too old though) and after some of the BSODs when I start it back up the fans start up, but then the CPU fan stops and the graphics card fan keeps speeding up and slowing down over and over again.



and SOMEONE please post :)
 

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Sounds to be a motherboard issue, have you looked at a budget for a new one?
 

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Sounds to be a motherboard issue, have you looked at a budget for a new one?

Well... After getting my car's engine rebuilt I'm broke >_> and I kinda depend on this computer a lot.


And yup I kinda thought it was the motherboard but was hoping for something else.
 

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have you tried a full reformat or used another hard drive?
 

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haxereth

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well another harddrive had the same problems... kinda at a loss as to what I should do. Is there anything I can do short of taking it all apart and testing everything individually with my second computer that I do to make sure it's my motherboard?
 
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