I'm trying to revive this old pc and I'm stuck with these BSOD's. It used to work fine and haven't changed any hardware, only got new ram because 1 stick died.
PC Specs:
Also it will crash if I copy a large file from one location to another.
Same exact thing happens in safe mode.
Weirdly enough it will not crash if I put the system under stress. I've tried stress testing using Aida64, Prime 95, ROG RealBench for about 6 hours each and played Far Cry 2 for about an hour. This with both ram sticks installed. Temps remain in normal bounds, under 80.
What I've tried so far:
Could the CPU be making this issue? I think I might still have an e8400 somewhere but need to get some thermal paste too.
I've put the minidumps on my drive if someone wouldn't mind having a look. In 2-3 minidumps Driver Verifier was enabled.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7SLwMgjrg3KbDNZNXBPMGczWnM/view?usp=sharing
PC Specs:
The PC runs just fine with just one stick of ram. When I add the second I can get into Windows with no problems and if I just leave it idle it most likely won't BSOD but sometimes it will do. What I found to crash it almost instantly is to install something (in this case it was nVidia driver, tried something else too) and it would crash or sometimes lock without a minidump even before it starts installing the files, like it would lock when it's unzipping the installer or checking requirements.MSI P43 Neo-F
Q9550
2x2GB Generic Ram DDR2 800
640GB WD HDD
MSI GTX 460 1GB
Vantec Ion2 450W
Windows 7 x64 SP1(fresh install)
Also it will crash if I copy a large file from one location to another.
Same exact thing happens in safe mode.
Weirdly enough it will not crash if I put the system under stress. I've tried stress testing using Aida64, Prime 95, ROG RealBench for about 6 hours each and played Far Cry 2 for about an hour. This with both ram sticks installed. Temps remain in normal bounds, under 80.
What I've tried so far:
■checked the ram sticks separately using memtest for 6 hours each and then together without errors
■no overcloking and all bios settings set to AUTO, also tried increasing the volts a bit over default
■sfc /scannow says everything is fine
■tried 2x1GB DDR2 800 ram sticks and same story, 1 stick is fine, 2 is trouble
■updated all drivers/chipset/bios and windows updates
■there are no obvious blown caps on the motherboard
Could the CPU be making this issue? I think I might still have an e8400 somewhere but need to get some thermal paste too.
I've put the minidumps on my drive if someone wouldn't mind having a look. In 2-3 minidumps Driver Verifier was enabled.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7SLwMgjrg3KbDNZNXBPMGczWnM/view?usp=sharing