Hi all,
I'm having the dreaded blue screen issues on Win 8.1.
I bought a new Mobo, CPU, doubled the RAM, GPU, Tower and Power Supply in September last year.
Everything was fine for a month or so, then I started getting bluescreen errors. They only seemed to occur when I was using the PC for long periods of gaming. Now I can get them anytime, whether I'm gaming, watching youtube vids or just browsing.
I have attempted many fixes! Including removing the new RAM and using my old RAM, replacing the GPU for my old one, buying a new SSD and installing Windows on there but I'm still having issues. I downloaded BlueScreenViewer and the majority of blue screens come from a ntoskrnl.exe issue, which, from google, I've discovered is a hardware issue.
My latest attempts to fix the issue have been to remove RAM sticks one at a time and run a benchmark on them. I used a program called Performance Test to benchmark.
The results are listed below:
(all using the same slots on Mobo)
Initial test with 16GB RAM: 1,213
Test with old RAM (8GB): 1,171
Test with new RAM (8GB): 1,225
Test with one stick of old RAM on another slot on mobo (4GB): 971
I know you can't compare the numbers against anything else, but it seems odd that I get very similar results from different configurations.
I'm at a loss here! Any help would be greatly received!
My spec is below (-8GB RAM, which is identical to what's on this Speccy list)
Many thanks,
Ollie
I'm having the dreaded blue screen issues on Win 8.1.
I bought a new Mobo, CPU, doubled the RAM, GPU, Tower and Power Supply in September last year.
Everything was fine for a month or so, then I started getting bluescreen errors. They only seemed to occur when I was using the PC for long periods of gaming. Now I can get them anytime, whether I'm gaming, watching youtube vids or just browsing.
I have attempted many fixes! Including removing the new RAM and using my old RAM, replacing the GPU for my old one, buying a new SSD and installing Windows on there but I'm still having issues. I downloaded BlueScreenViewer and the majority of blue screens come from a ntoskrnl.exe issue, which, from google, I've discovered is a hardware issue.
My latest attempts to fix the issue have been to remove RAM sticks one at a time and run a benchmark on them. I used a program called Performance Test to benchmark.
The results are listed below:
(all using the same slots on Mobo)
Initial test with 16GB RAM: 1,213
Test with old RAM (8GB): 1,171
Test with new RAM (8GB): 1,225
Test with one stick of old RAM on another slot on mobo (4GB): 971
I know you can't compare the numbers against anything else, but it seems odd that I get very similar results from different configurations.
I'm at a loss here! Any help would be greatly received!
My spec is below (-8GB RAM, which is identical to what's on this Speccy list)
Many thanks,
Ollie