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Gawd
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guys, i am asking help from the collective M1 owners:
i have been having trouble with my system since day 1; it would randomly crash, torment me with many many BSoDs with different bugcheck codes, or shutdown during sleep or after waking up from sleep.
to recap: at first, i had a ASRock Z87E-ITX motherboard, which finally died after less than a year, so i switched it with a Gigabyte B85N-Phoenix WiFi motherboard. this helped a bit with the problem (as in, the frequency of the shutdowns and crashes decreased, but the problem never went away). i did many many hours of memory testing with many different diagnostic programs and performed burn tests but found no obvious problems with the memory or the CPU or any other hardware. i was under the impression that due to the randomness of the crashes/shutdowns and the fact that the BSoD bugcheck codes were all over the place, the problem could only be either the memory or the faulty/failing PSU. at the same time, i was reluctant to change more things without finding the real culprit, but finally, after 4 years from building this computer, i gave in and bought a new PSU (Corsair SF450 SFX) and new pairs of DDR3 RAM 8GB modules (G.SKILL) during the black friday sales.
yesterday, i took out the old PSU (Silverstone SFX 450W Gold) and RAM (Crucial Ballistix LP) and put in the new ones, and turned the computer on. i did many cycles of sleep-to-on, and finally, after about 8 hours or so, the computer greeted me with a BSoD while opening a PDF document in Firefox, not long after being woken up from sleep. granted, i think i'd need to reinstall Windows in case the old OS install was corrupted by a faulty memory (if that had been the problem, i mean). but i got really bummed out by seeing the BSoD after changing these two components.
changed already: motherboard, PSU, RAM
not changed yet: GPU, 128GB mSATA drive, 1TB WD HDD, Haswell i5 CPU.
does anybody have any ideas on how to proceed with this? i am at my wits' end with this after 4 years of dealing with this issue and do not know how to diagnose this problem. i don't want to constantly buy parts for this computer (it's been a significant source of emotional and financial burden for me in the last 4 years.), so i'd rather find the real issue and deal with it as opposed to throw random parts at it.
thank you very much.
I can't say I have any magical solution for you. But sometimes it's the basics that we tend to gloss over than can trip us up.
Recently I was having a strange round of issues similar to yours - random freezing, not waking from sleep, BSOD. Turns out my 24pin and EPS power cables were not making good contact. Had to pull them out and reshape some of the connectors. Voila.. perfect computer again.
Mind you - It's not like I'm playing around with my cables all the time so it took about 1 week to diagnose. Like you, no obvious errors to report.
Don't give up...