Blue Scree of Death

[tidefan94]

Alrite, I had a friend of mine build this system for me about mid-march. Everything had been running perfectly until last weekend, while playing plants vs. zombies on steam and I randomly got the blue screen of death. Everything had been fine again until a couple of minutes ago the same thing happened while browsing the web.

My Specs are:
Intel i7 920
ATI Radeon HD 4870 1 gig
Corsair Dominator 3 gig DDR3 memory
Gigabyte EX58-UD5 motherboard
Seagate 7200 RPM 500 gig

I'm pretty sure all my drivers are up to date, so what could the problem be?

 

[daship]

PSU?
Is it overclocked at all?

Temps?

 

[tidefan94]

My PSU is a 650w, so idt thats the problem
I don't OC because i'm too afraid
and while I don't take temps, the air both times was only lukewarm, not enough to crash it rite?

 

[smithereen]

Download Coretemp and Prime95 (google them) and run them both. Look for error messages and temps over 60C.

 

[The_Prophecy]

I agree with smithereen. Feeling the air coming off the CPU heatsink is not always a reliable test. Another good tool is HWMonitor from CPUID at www.cpuid.com