I've been getting BSODs with increasing frequency over the past month. Ever since building this system I'd get them every so often (once a quarter maybe) but not enough to cause any alarm, usually coinciding with a new driver suite being available for the video card. Lately they've been happening more often and I can't pin down any common denominator. The error codes are varied and they happen at totally different times of day and have nothing to do with how long the machine has been on or how hard it's running. I usually have the same 4 or 5 tabs open in firefox when I'm on it, but it's happened when there's been no browser open as well. Firefox has also been crashing on me at least once a day, but I think that may be related to the newest releases being buggy, as it just started happening with release 30 & 31.
So far I've done the following diagnostics-
-Used Driver Sweeper to completely remove my video card drivers (event viewer had been throwing a lot of code 7000 which ended up being related to a legacy driver and stopped when I got rid of it) and reinstalled the newest non-beta driver suite.
-Ran the windows memory test 3 times and it's come back clear (RAM = G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL - Newegg.com)
-Speccy doesn't show anything out of the ordinary (see SS below)
-I -haven't- run driver verifier yet, just because I tried running that a year or two ago and it just ran for an hour then made the machine freeze up (no bsod, just freeze) and I had to do a system restore in safe mode
-I haven't downloaded or installed any new software recently. The last major change I made was back in April when the controller on my external hard drive failed so I took the drive out of the enclosure and put it in an extra bay. There haven't been any problems with it since. A few days before these BSODs began I moved physically to a new apartment, but it was a short trip and I can't imagine anything could have been damaged internally in that process. I've since opened it up and dusted it out and nothing looks out of the ordinary.
· OS - Vista/ Windows 7 ?
-Windows 7 Home Premium
· x86 (32-bit) or x64 ?
-x64
· What was original installed OS on system?
-Windows 7 Home Premium
· Is the OS an OEM version (came pre-installed on system) or full retail version (YOU purchased it from retailer)?
-Full retail version that I bought and installed when I built the system
· Age of system (hardware)
-Built in fall 2011
· Age of OS installation - have you re-installed the OS?
-Windows was re-installed when I added an SSD in summer 2012
· CPU
-AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb Quad-Core 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Processor
· Video Card
-SAPPHIRE 100314-2SR Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16
· MotherBoard
-GIGABYTE GA-880GA-UD3H AM3 AMD 880G HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
· Power Supply - brand & wattage
-Corsair 650w
· System Manufacturer
-homemade
· Exact model number (if laptop, check label on bottom)
-homemade
Laptop or Desktop?
-desktop
Thanks in advance for your assistance. Even though I'm not as active on the forum as I'd like to be, this place has been a fantastic resource for me over the years both personally and professionally.
So far I've done the following diagnostics-
-Used Driver Sweeper to completely remove my video card drivers (event viewer had been throwing a lot of code 7000 which ended up being related to a legacy driver and stopped when I got rid of it) and reinstalled the newest non-beta driver suite.
-Ran the windows memory test 3 times and it's come back clear (RAM = G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL - Newegg.com)
-Speccy doesn't show anything out of the ordinary (see SS below)
-I -haven't- run driver verifier yet, just because I tried running that a year or two ago and it just ran for an hour then made the machine freeze up (no bsod, just freeze) and I had to do a system restore in safe mode
-I haven't downloaded or installed any new software recently. The last major change I made was back in April when the controller on my external hard drive failed so I took the drive out of the enclosure and put it in an extra bay. There haven't been any problems with it since. A few days before these BSODs began I moved physically to a new apartment, but it was a short trip and I can't imagine anything could have been damaged internally in that process. I've since opened it up and dusted it out and nothing looks out of the ordinary.
· OS - Vista/ Windows 7 ?
-Windows 7 Home Premium
· x86 (32-bit) or x64 ?
-x64
· What was original installed OS on system?
-Windows 7 Home Premium
· Is the OS an OEM version (came pre-installed on system) or full retail version (YOU purchased it from retailer)?
-Full retail version that I bought and installed when I built the system
· Age of system (hardware)
-Built in fall 2011
· Age of OS installation - have you re-installed the OS?
-Windows was re-installed when I added an SSD in summer 2012
· CPU
-AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb Quad-Core 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Processor
· Video Card
-SAPPHIRE 100314-2SR Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16
· MotherBoard
-GIGABYTE GA-880GA-UD3H AM3 AMD 880G HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
· Power Supply - brand & wattage
-Corsair 650w
· System Manufacturer
-homemade
· Exact model number (if laptop, check label on bottom)
-homemade
Laptop or Desktop?
-desktop
Thanks in advance for your assistance. Even though I'm not as active on the forum as I'd like to be, this place has been a fantastic resource for me over the years both personally and professionally.