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Hardware: Intel Core2Duo E6750, MSI GeForce 8800GTS 320MB factory OC, MSI P35 Neo motherboard, 4GB DDR2 800MHz RAM.
The thread title says most of it. Random, and I mean really random, BSODs.
As a background my PSU failed a couple of weeks ago and I kept using it until a new one arrived. The problems caused by the failing unit were simple, a power cut with no warnings and an immediate restart. I replaced the PSU, everything worked fine. Then I installed Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.
At first everything worked but pretty soon I began receiving those BSODs with error codes "50" and "1e". Both of which usually point to a memory problem. I thought the damaged PSU might have fried a RAM stick and tested every stick alone, no errors. Then I installed them all (four of them) and got an error at 1361.xx MB. OK, perhaps the memory is OK but it's the motherboard that is suffering from being electrocuted. At this point I took it to the shop for further investigation.
They tested with one stick, two sticks in single channel mode, two sticks in dual channel mode, in every possible configuration and positioning. In the end it seems that the motherboard is OK after all but one of the sticks might be defective. Oddly enough the error always occurred at the same spot, 1361.xx MB, regardless of the positioning of the troublemaker stick in the slots but it was thought to be the test's way of telling about the error. That stick was removed, no errors were received and I got the machine back. But this wasn't the end of the story.
The first boot went perfectly, the machine ran as it should for about half an hour until I shut it down. Turning it on again a few hours later brought a disaster, two bluescreens before the desktop even loaded and another a couple of seconds after the icons had appeared. And a couple more after that, the intervals being from a few seconds to approximately fifteen minutes. I also got a new error "7f" among the ones previously mentioned - they haven't gone anywhere. "1e" is still ruling its own little world.
It might be a hardware failure even though the tests don't show anything. It might be a software problem but I don't feel like reinstalling Windows just to be sure. It might even be a driver problem but getting rid of them would again necessitate reinstalling Windows.
What the hell shall I do next?
The thread title says most of it. Random, and I mean really random, BSODs.
As a background my PSU failed a couple of weeks ago and I kept using it until a new one arrived. The problems caused by the failing unit were simple, a power cut with no warnings and an immediate restart. I replaced the PSU, everything worked fine. Then I installed Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.
At first everything worked but pretty soon I began receiving those BSODs with error codes "50" and "1e". Both of which usually point to a memory problem. I thought the damaged PSU might have fried a RAM stick and tested every stick alone, no errors. Then I installed them all (four of them) and got an error at 1361.xx MB. OK, perhaps the memory is OK but it's the motherboard that is suffering from being electrocuted. At this point I took it to the shop for further investigation.
They tested with one stick, two sticks in single channel mode, two sticks in dual channel mode, in every possible configuration and positioning. In the end it seems that the motherboard is OK after all but one of the sticks might be defective. Oddly enough the error always occurred at the same spot, 1361.xx MB, regardless of the positioning of the troublemaker stick in the slots but it was thought to be the test's way of telling about the error. That stick was removed, no errors were received and I got the machine back. But this wasn't the end of the story.
The first boot went perfectly, the machine ran as it should for about half an hour until I shut it down. Turning it on again a few hours later brought a disaster, two bluescreens before the desktop even loaded and another a couple of seconds after the icons had appeared. And a couple more after that, the intervals being from a few seconds to approximately fifteen minutes. I also got a new error "7f" among the ones previously mentioned - they haven't gone anywhere. "1e" is still ruling its own little world.
It might be a hardware failure even though the tests don't show anything. It might be a software problem but I don't feel like reinstalling Windows just to be sure. It might even be a driver problem but getting rid of them would again necessitate reinstalling Windows.
What the hell shall I do next?
