My rig is unstable; frequent software crashes, BSODs

[Blackhammer20]

Hello, I have a problem with my PC. It's been happening ever since I built it 3 years ago. By now I am fed up with the constant stability issues.

CPU: i5-4570 3.20GHz
RAM: 8 Gigabytes, Goodram
GPU: GTX 1060 3 GB
OS: Windows 10 Enterprise, updated regularly
MOBO: Gigabyte Z87-HD3
128 GB SSD for the system files and 512 GB HDD for the rest

Problem: frequent crashes of software (video games, mostly) and BSODs, a BSOD a day with a software crash every ~2 hours is the norm

Tried: system file scanner, looking for bad RAM sectors, updating my MOBO drivers (this actually helped A LOT, it was unusable before that), getting a new GPU (just an upgrade, not trying to solve the problem, and it did not change anything)
I should mention this rig used to run on Windows 7 with the same stability issues
Temperature seems to be normal, I ran some tests

Please advise

 

[sunder25]

what problem code?

 

[Blackhammer20]

what problem code?

There codes isn't always the same, it's a different one almost every time. I can write it down next time I have a BSOD. Apologies for not doing so before. Just had another crash of a game, don't know when a BSOD might happen.

 

[Blackhammer20]

Any chance for an answer, please? I had a BSOD happen yesterday while I was afk. It happens so fast there is really no guarantee I can get an error code out from it.

 

[sunder25]

try loading bios defaults. if that doesn't help,
try swapping out your RAM. leave one stick and see if it happens again. then use the other stick.
since it's been happening on another OS aswell, it is most likely a hardware issue.

 

[cherry blossoms]

Hello, I have a problem with my PC. It's been happening ever since I built it 3 years ago. By now I am fed up with the constant stability issues.

CPU: i5-4570 3.20GHz
RAM: 8 Gigabytes, Goodram
GPU: GTX 1060 3 GB
OS: Windows 10 Enterprise, updated regularly
MOBO: Gigabyte Z87-HD3
128 GB SSD for the system files and 512 GB HDD for the rest

Problem: frequent crashes of software (video games, mostly) and BSODs, a BSOD a day with a software crash every ~2 hours is the norm

Tried: system file scanner, looking for bad RAM sectors, updating my MOBO drivers (this actually helped A LOT, it was unusable before that), getting a new GPU (just an upgrade, not trying to solve the problem, and it did not change anything)
I should mention this rig used to run on Windows 7 with the same stability issues
Temperature seems to be normal, I ran some tests

Please advise

To clarify: you are running enterprise software as a single license on a personal PC?

 

[Blackhammer20]

Hello, I have a problem with my PC. It's been happening ever since I built it 3 years ago. By now I am fed up with the constant stability issues.

CPU: i5-4570 3.20GHz
RAM: 8 Gigabytes, Goodram
GPU: GTX 1060 3 GB
OS: Windows 10 Enterprise, updated regularly
MOBO: Gigabyte Z87-HD3
128 GB SSD for the system files and 512 GB HDD for the rest

Problem: frequent crashes of software (video games, mostly) and BSODs, a BSOD a day with a software crash every ~2 hours is the norm

Tried: system file scanner, looking for bad RAM sectors, updating my MOBO drivers (this actually helped A LOT, it was unusable before that), getting a new GPU (just an upgrade, not trying to solve the problem, and it did not change anything)
I should mention this rig used to run on Windows 7 with the same stability issues
Temperature seems to be normal, I ran some tests

Please advise

To clarify: you are running enterprise software as a single license on a personal PC?

Yes, that is correct.

 

[Blackhammer20]

what problem code?

Okay yesterday it was
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT

 

[Blackhammer20]

"KERNEL SECURITY CHECK FAILURE" today; I will follow sunder25's advice tomorrow and report back after I do

 

[johnbl]

you should just put the windows diagnostic memory dumps on to a cloud server like Microsoft onedrive, share the files for public access so that they can be looked at with a windows debugger.

otherwise, a generic answer will be: update the motherboard bios, update the motherboard drivers, reinstall the GPU graphics drivers from the vendors website reboot and see if you can still get a bugcheck.

it is hard to guess what to tell you to do, the bugcheck code generally has a error code as the first parameter. it can be very useful. a memory error comes from the windows memory management and may refer to many components: RAM, CPU ram, cpu cache ram, driver store compression, and virtual memory storage to disk (pagefile.sys) (and maybe readyboost) each type of memory error had a different cause and solution. It can also refer to corruption of data in memory due to bad drivers, malware, and bad memory timings (from bios or overclock drivers).

 

[clarkjd]

Just curious, but what PSUdo you have?
Frequent crashes tend to be power related.