BSOD when watching streams, playing games, just all the time

[Prydeful]

So, my computer has had a pretty severe problem of crashing pretty hard since I first created it, but it is getting really really bad, so it would be awesome if I could get this finished once and for all. The reason I think this is a storage issue, is that when I described the symptoms to a friend he thought it may be a HDD failure.
The symptoms are, if I am playing a game, all of a sudden very bad signal sounding noise can be heard from my speakers, like a radio on the wrong channel. The screen will become zigzaggy, and then the application will crash. If I have any applications in the background they too will crash, and when I attempt to open them, the words and letters will start going in strange directions and it is very eerie. And then my computer crashes.
OR, I just BSOD.

Computer specs -

GFX - 7850 Radeon HD
Mobo - Asus M4A88t-V EVO/USB3
Chipset - AMD 880G
CPU - AMD Phenom II x4 955e @ 3200 MHz
RAM - 8192 MB (4 x 2048 DDR3-SDRAM)
SDD - ADATA SP600 ATA Device (OS installed)
HDD - Hitachi HDS721959CLA362 ATA Device
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate SP 1 64 Bit
PSU - ANTEC REV 0F2, Its either 550w or 650w
Umm.. 7.1 out of 7.9 on Windows Performance Index.

I did memtests on all of my RAMmies and they are all error free.

Thanks!

 

[lonewolf7]

Try to check RAM with this : http://www.memtest.org/ try overnight for as many passes as possible.

Do you have a on board video, if so than try it. GPU may be faulty.

The last resort will be SSD/HDD and MB. BTW you missed a very important thing..........PSU. What is brand/model of it ?

 

[popatim]

Also update the firmware on the adata, and run error checking with both options selected on the hdd.

You did not list your power supply, which one do you have?

 

[Prydeful]

Also update the firmware on the adata, and run error checking with both options selected on the hdd.

You did not list your power supply, which one do you have?

When I tried to update my firmware I was told that it would delete all information on my SDD, because I have my OS installed on their, I was a little worried. Is it possible to backup my OS to my HDD and then update the firmware? I am not quite sure how that works.. Also, I would like to point out that I was having these problems with my computer before I purchased my SDD.

Finally, I do not have ECC enabled on my RAM, is this a potential problem? Also, in the past when I have tried to switch my SATA from IDE to AHCI I have been unable to boot even after following a guide and configuring REGEDIT.. could this be a potential reason?

 

[lonewolf7]

I never heard that an firmware update will erase the OS. It could erase the info on flash memory in BIOS/MB to write the new info. You cannot backup an OS in HDD, you could clone it with third party software's, and could restore it later.

This could be a problem if you install OS on IDE mode and change it later to AHCI mode. SATA HDD's run better on IDE mode and SSD's will run better on AHCI mode.

Did you check the on board video ?

 

[popatim]

Some early ssd's firmware updates could indeed wipe the drive but all users should have backups before proceeding anyways or at least be prepared for a full reinstallation of windows and all their other stuff (programs, videos, music, documents...)

yes Pryde you shoud definitely backup the SSD before doing a firmware update.

 

[Prydeful]

So, I updated my firmware on the ssd, and it wiped my harddrive, so i tried to reinstall the os and it repeatedly fails, i reformatted my hdd and sdd, tried installing on both, tried taking one out and then installing on the other, nothing works.
Also, a strange thing I noticed is, when I change my sata to ahci all of a sudden in the boot device area my computer decides my harddrives are IDE then when i change them back to legacy, they are sata again.

I assumed my sdd was broken because of the firmware update sowhen i tried to reinstall on the hdd, i get 0xc000000f error, cannot read boot config data

interestingly, when i remove both harddrives i can boot the cd perfectly.

I never heard that an firmware update will erase the OS. It could erase the info on flash memory in BIOS/MB to write the new info. You cannot backup an OS in HDD, you could clone it with third party software's, and could restore it later.

This could be a problem if you install OS on IDE mode and change it later to AHCI mode. SATA HDD's run better on IDE mode and SSD's will run better on AHCI mode.

Did you check the on board video ?

 

[smitbret]

The fact that you've had stability issues since it was new indicates you definitely have a hardware issue. It doesn't sound anything like a HDD issue, though. It sounds like a GPU that is having heat issues or failing/failed.

 

[lonewolf7]

Hi, you can try this : http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-7/create-a-windows-7-system-repair-disc/

http://think-like-a-computer.com/2012/04/17/boot-bcd-0xc000000f-windows-7/

Else I suspect the HDD.