Every program crashes, could it be a RAM issue?

[CBJ023]

Hello everyone, my computer was working fine until today. I started it up and tried to play a few of my games but none would work. They would all crash about a minute into the game. Mozilla Firefox and Internet explorer would also crash instantly. I launched COD5 and at the menu screen the screen would flicker, and the be rotated (I have a video of that attached at the bottom). After GTA 4 crashed this was under additional details Fault Module Name: dxdiagn.dll Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17514. Right now the computer is basically unusable as everything is crashing out of the blue. The only problem I had before this was BF4 crashing. Mind you the game is crashing for everyone but it was working fine for me for a few weeks and then yesterday it would crash a lot, then after lowering settings and disabling cloud storage it seemed to work ok.
The power to the house was shut off while some work was being done and the computer was on. If that caused the problem what could it have done, and how can I fix it?
EDIT: It would stutter on the menu screen for COD5 but while loading Nazi zombies the whole computer crashed on safe mode the game won't launch saying directs has encountered an unrecoverable fault
Specs:
- Phenom II x4 965 OC'ed to 4ghz 1.35v
- 8gb DDR3 1333mhz RAM
- EVGA GTX 660 SC
- WD Black 1TB HDD
- Windows 7 64bit
(This doesn't happen with the other games, they run normal then crash a few minutes in my temperatures are all within their limits) COD5 stuttering video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfLUc28iX6g&feature=youtu.be

 

[photonboy]

Ok yesterday it was running ok, WOT ran fine like usual, I played 1-2hrs of BF4 and had the plug-in crash, and then the game crash. Then later on I got the BSOD. I pulled out the second memory stick and started memtest last night, its been going for about 11hrs. I'll probably leave it running for 17hrs. then see if I get a BSOD in BF4 after playing a while. So far it's passed all the tests with no errors.

Try running with ONLY the stick you just took out.
If it fails pretty quickly it's likely that stick. MEMTEST is good, probably the best, but not quite 100%.

When the rest of your system is under load the voltage might not be as stable and RAM that works in Memtest might have issues during a game.

 

[CBJ023]

I'm still having problems with just the one stick in and it's been through a total of probably 24hrs worth of memtest but I still had problems. It seems for some reason GTA 4 really screws with my system. After trying to play it with the one stick installed and it still crashed on GTA 4 the only difference is it said it was a App Crash the whole system didn't crash. But after that every program crashed again. Again memtest has run 20+ hrs on this stick with 0 errors. I'll start testing the other one tonight, and see how it runs tomorrow, but this one passed but instead of the system crashing, the App does and everything still crashes after playing GTA 4, and everything looks weird, the colors will randomly change and look strange.

 

[CBJ023]

Is it possible the RAM slot is damaged? Should I try a different one?

 

[photonboy]

Is it possible the RAM slot is damaged? Should I try a different one?

If the RAM slot was damaged then you'd have errors in MEMTEST.

At this point in troubleshooting I'm suspecting:
- Graphics Card
- Motherboard, or
- Power Supply

If you can borrow a video card that would be great.

 

[CBJ023]

Ran memtest on the second second for 3hrs no errors. Then I went into the config. And set it to report individual errors and thousands started coming up, here's how what happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDuT_YOOEsw

 

[dacquesta1]

have you tried bumping your vcore up?

 

[CBJ023]

Haven't touched the RAM settings in BIOS there all stock I guess I could think that could help?

 

[dacquesta1]

no i mean your cpu vcore...bump it up a notch or two to rule that out.

 

[CBJ023]

It ran 9hrs of prime 95 stable but I'll try it out, Beam ng worked for 2-3 he's then crashed and then everything else crashed as well (by the way Beam ng is amazing)

 

[dacquesta1]

I prefer intel burn test, I'll have to check out beam ng.

 

[CBJ023]

Just to make sure the intel burn test will work on my AMD CPU? Stock my CPU is 3.4ghz, at 1.37v. I was running 4.0ghz at 1.35, I bumped it up to 1.36 and played some GTA and after about 30mins-1hr hadn't had any problems. If that was the issue Iwould think Prime95 would've reported an error, or crashed, or that Beamng would've caused everything to crash. Beam NG Is crazy CPU intensive, but it seemed to run fine, GTA isn't very CPU intensive and crashed all the time. Well I'll get back to you guys after some more testing.

 

[CBJ023]

Well GTA 4 still only works for about an hour, but every other game works fine. I had this one wierd thing with Dirt 3 where it was freezing every half second or so, but maintained 30FPS, never hit like 5 or something so it wasn't FPS drops, it averages 70FPS. I'm thinking I might add a little more voltage, and if GTA doesn't work I'll unistall it because I barely play it any way.