Hey guys!
So I'm having a huge problem with my GF's PC and I am at the end of my tether with it so I'm reaching out for help. The specs I have just thrown in the PCPartPicker list that I used and is down below so to not breakup this lovely wall of text for you!
Mid last year I built a very "budget" PC for my GF to play WoW on when Legion came out, got it up and running without any real hitches other than the fact that Windows 7 wouldn't update, even with manually downloaded updates. I installed all the hardware drivers manually anyway so I wasn't that bothered and it's been pretty much fine since.
Then over the past couple of weeks games (WoW and Overwatch) have crashed a couple of times (or drastically lost FPS but would recover by restarting the game), then last night she was attempting to play Overwatch and it just wouldn't start and the PC started BSOD'ing.
So I decided if I'm having problems with it that are gunna need fixing I might as well also buy a copy of Windows 10 and start a new so that's what I did this morning. I installed it, at the end of the install it BSOD'd due to "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT"
It installed fine but then for some reason Windows 10 wouldn't update, then audio driver install caused another BSOD (can't remember error code, think it was same as above)
Downloaded various microsoft tools to try diagnose the problem but all would fail so I figured maybe the download of Windows was corrupted so I redownloaded it and installed Win10 from another clean install formatting both SSD and HDD.
Installed fine, but then again at the very end did the whole "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT" BSOD but when it booted up then everything seemed fine, windows update worked fine, installed every update without a problem APART from the audio driver wasn't working. So I went to ASUS website to get my motherboard's drivers, downloaded the latest audio driver and it installed fine, sound is great.
However, that's when all hell broke loose apparently! Opened chrome to start downloading various every day programs but every tab was just going "Aww, snap" and failing to load, if I attempted to refresh the tab it would BSOD again with a few different reasons MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED (it mentioned a .dll that had failed but I dunno which one was it closed before I had a chance to note it down) and a third one but I can't remember what.
Read various threads and the most common answer is that the RAM is faulty so I ran Windows Memory Diagnostic which reported faults but didn't tell me what they were asked a friend who works in IT support for quickest way to test that and he said to use a program named Prime95. Attempted to download it but Chrome was still crashing out so used Microsoft Edge which also started crashing. Eventually got it downloaded and it's currently running in the background but so far it's passing every test.
Everything is under warranty so I can send parts back but it's a matter of figuring out exactly what is faulty.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
[PCPartPicker part list](https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Nmjrhq) / [Price breakdown by merchant](https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Nmjrhq/by_merchant/)
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£105.46 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI H110M Gaming Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£65.80 @ Alza)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£65.86 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£51.62 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£47.15 @ BT Shop)
Case: Thermaltake Core V21 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£47.28 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£53.51 @ Aria PC)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN725N USB 2.0 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter (£6.66 @ Ebuyer)
Monitor: BenQ GL2250HM 21.5" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor (£89.99 @ Amazon UK)
Keyboard: Logitech K120 Wired Standard Keyboard (£13.95 @ Amazon UK)
Other: Sapphire Radeon RX 460 (£109.98)
Total: £657.26
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-04-03 17:53 BST+0100
EDIT: I don't have 2 sticks of RAM, not sure why it linked to that! This is the RAM installed:
http://www.ebuyer.com/743023-corsair-vengeance-lpx-8gb-ddr4-2400mhz-1-2v-dimm-memory-module-cmk8gx4m1a2400c16
So I'm having a huge problem with my GF's PC and I am at the end of my tether with it so I'm reaching out for help. The specs I have just thrown in the PCPartPicker list that I used and is down below so to not breakup this lovely wall of text for you!
Mid last year I built a very "budget" PC for my GF to play WoW on when Legion came out, got it up and running without any real hitches other than the fact that Windows 7 wouldn't update, even with manually downloaded updates. I installed all the hardware drivers manually anyway so I wasn't that bothered and it's been pretty much fine since.
Then over the past couple of weeks games (WoW and Overwatch) have crashed a couple of times (or drastically lost FPS but would recover by restarting the game), then last night she was attempting to play Overwatch and it just wouldn't start and the PC started BSOD'ing.
So I decided if I'm having problems with it that are gunna need fixing I might as well also buy a copy of Windows 10 and start a new so that's what I did this morning. I installed it, at the end of the install it BSOD'd due to "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT"
It installed fine but then for some reason Windows 10 wouldn't update, then audio driver install caused another BSOD (can't remember error code, think it was same as above)
Downloaded various microsoft tools to try diagnose the problem but all would fail so I figured maybe the download of Windows was corrupted so I redownloaded it and installed Win10 from another clean install formatting both SSD and HDD.
Installed fine, but then again at the very end did the whole "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT" BSOD but when it booted up then everything seemed fine, windows update worked fine, installed every update without a problem APART from the audio driver wasn't working. So I went to ASUS website to get my motherboard's drivers, downloaded the latest audio driver and it installed fine, sound is great.
However, that's when all hell broke loose apparently! Opened chrome to start downloading various every day programs but every tab was just going "Aww, snap" and failing to load, if I attempted to refresh the tab it would BSOD again with a few different reasons MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED (it mentioned a .dll that had failed but I dunno which one was it closed before I had a chance to note it down) and a third one but I can't remember what.
Read various threads and the most common answer is that the RAM is faulty so I ran Windows Memory Diagnostic which reported faults but didn't tell me what they were asked a friend who works in IT support for quickest way to test that and he said to use a program named Prime95. Attempted to download it but Chrome was still crashing out so used Microsoft Edge which also started crashing. Eventually got it downloaded and it's currently running in the background but so far it's passing every test.
Everything is under warranty so I can send parts back but it's a matter of figuring out exactly what is faulty.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
[PCPartPicker part list](https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Nmjrhq) / [Price breakdown by merchant](https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Nmjrhq/by_merchant/)
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£105.46 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI H110M Gaming Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£65.80 @ Alza)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£65.86 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£51.62 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£47.15 @ BT Shop)
Case: Thermaltake Core V21 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£47.28 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£53.51 @ Aria PC)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN725N USB 2.0 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter (£6.66 @ Ebuyer)
Monitor: BenQ GL2250HM 21.5" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor (£89.99 @ Amazon UK)
Keyboard: Logitech K120 Wired Standard Keyboard (£13.95 @ Amazon UK)
Other: Sapphire Radeon RX 460 (£109.98)
Total: £657.26
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-04-03 17:53 BST+0100
EDIT: I don't have 2 sticks of RAM, not sure why it linked to that! This is the RAM installed:
http://www.ebuyer.com/743023-corsair-vengeance-lpx-8gb-ddr4-2400mhz-1-2v-dimm-memory-module-cmk8gx4m1a2400c16