Blue screens recently

[TheMadskater]

My computer has been blue screening lately. It does it a couple times a week and it started last week. Ive had this problem before and i experience blue screens for a week or two and then it stops for a few months and then it happens again. Does anyone have an idea? (Sorry im not sure what category this should be under)

 

[hobbiest]

Blue Screens are definitely IMO the most complicated trouble to solve for even the experienced PC folks. The intermittent nature of them certainly doesn't help. I have been lucky resolving 3 BSOD's (blue screen of death) 1. Was replacing a power supply. 2 and 3 were RAM memory issues. I used a memory testing program memtest86+ to find the RAM issues. Using the Windows 7 memory test didn't find a problem. It completed successfully. When I used the memtest86+ it started throwing errors right away and racking up high error counts. I had 4 sticks of ram so removed all but one. Then ran memtest86+ on each single stick I put in. My findings were 3 of the 4 worked fine but one started showing errors right away. It was Corsair so I sent email to them and found guaranteed for life. They replaced the bad stick and it has been 6 months since replacing and I have not had one blue screen since. Not that this is related but my PC's get so dusty over time and heat is an enemy of your PC. I take mine out to garage once a year or more and use compressor to blow out all the accumulated dust on heatsinks etc. Try to keep dust from going in your optical drives if possible when doing. I don't recommend vacuuming because of ESD (electrical static discharge) Like walking across carpet and getting zapped when touching metal. That can damage or degregate a component and cause it to fail earlier.