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AMD X4 - random BSOD,what to do next

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roadkill401

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Some days it just sucks to be me.

about 6 months ago I built up a AMD X4 II 955 with a Gigabyte MA786GMT motherboard. 8gb Gskill ram and a Corseair 750w power supply.

I had problems getting windows 7 to install but that turned out to be a defective DVD drive. It worked fine for 5 weeks then started to give random BSOD errors. Since it was outside of direct replacement warranty, I started to look into what components could be causing the problem.

Tried moving around the ram, going down to pairs and single stick. Still got the random errors. I found that if I re-installed Win7 clean, the problem would go away for 3-5 weeks.

Replaced the power supply as I could do that without much cost. Problem still persists.

The errors started to be mostly around the ATI drivers, so I disabled the onboard video and put in a new video card. Problem went away for 6 weeks, then came back again.

So bought a new motherboard last week, (ASUS M4A88TD-V evo) and it worked for 1 week before more BSOD errors.

The only thing left that hasn't been replaced is the CPU. Am I just burning money and my sanity, or is it worth seing if I can return the ASUS motherboard with restocking and try a new CPU on the old Gigabyte motherboard?

What would you do?

Matt
 
should I eat the $140 for the Asus motherboard as it has USB3 and SATA6 and just buy a new CPU

as I still don't know if the Gigabyte board works or not. chances are slim that both the CPU and the original motherboard are both defective. But I know my luck
 
roadkill401 said:
should I eat the $140 for the Asus motherboard as it has USB3 and SATA6 and just buy a new CPU
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No. Also, you didn't mention testing or replacing the hard drive. Might want to look into that.
 
I have tried it with 4 different hard drives in both IDE, RAID and ASIC modes. So I know it's not that. Also, tried it with Win7 64bit and WinXP Pro.

it's funny in that you get a whole string of BSOD errors. like 0x8e, 0x0a and 0x24 from today.

Now all these if taken in common point to some sort of failure of a controler driver that has gone funky. I am trying to use the RAID drivers to get mirroring as I have had a hard drive go corrupt on my once.

I have had many computers that I have built, but this is the first one that has caused this many problems.
 
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