Hi guys, first post. I've been building my own systems for 20 years and have never had a problem so bad I need to ask for help from people smarter than me, but here goes....
I recently built a new system after deciding to upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10, and bought a new Gigabyte G1 gaming motherboard with 128GB of ram, Dual GPU, new 1500 Watt PSU, etc. I have never had a blue screen while using Win7 for over five years. After using Windows 10 for a couple of weeks, I was getting them regularly -- and with no consistency in the type of error. IRQ NOt LESS or EQUAL, MEMORY MANAGEMENT. You name it, I've had it. At first I blamed it on Windows 10, but I had changed all my hardware also, so maybe the new hardware is at fault somehow.
I tried narrowing down the problem by getting all drivers and bios up to date. That didn't work. I've tested the ram and drives. That didn't work either. I Still get intermittent BSOD, and it can happen at any time. At first it would be when coming out of sleep mode. Then it could be when just clicking on one random thing on the screen. The most frequent type of crash is when the computer has been idle for a while, and I come back to find it has spontaneously rebooted from a crash.
I've removed all the Ram and tried adding sticks to see if I could narrow it down to a ram slot on the board. I went 8 days without a crash(the longest time yet) while I had four sticks in, but it finally crashed last night. But when this happened, I noticed something that has been a similar theme throughout my ordeal. Many times, when I instigate a crash, it happens when either clicking on something in the second monitor(which is plugged into the second video card) or dragging a window from the second monitor to the main one.
Does anyone think it's possible that the video card controlling that second monitor could be causing the issue? I've already swapped in a known good video card to see if that works, but I think on the next crash I'm going to be reinstalling Windows 7.
Does anyone have anything else I can try to figure out this problem? Like I said, the errors have no consistency when I look at them in Blue Screen View, so I don't have much to go finding the actual problem.
I recently built a new system after deciding to upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10, and bought a new Gigabyte G1 gaming motherboard with 128GB of ram, Dual GPU, new 1500 Watt PSU, etc. I have never had a blue screen while using Win7 for over five years. After using Windows 10 for a couple of weeks, I was getting them regularly -- and with no consistency in the type of error. IRQ NOt LESS or EQUAL, MEMORY MANAGEMENT. You name it, I've had it. At first I blamed it on Windows 10, but I had changed all my hardware also, so maybe the new hardware is at fault somehow.
I tried narrowing down the problem by getting all drivers and bios up to date. That didn't work. I've tested the ram and drives. That didn't work either. I Still get intermittent BSOD, and it can happen at any time. At first it would be when coming out of sleep mode. Then it could be when just clicking on one random thing on the screen. The most frequent type of crash is when the computer has been idle for a while, and I come back to find it has spontaneously rebooted from a crash.
I've removed all the Ram and tried adding sticks to see if I could narrow it down to a ram slot on the board. I went 8 days without a crash(the longest time yet) while I had four sticks in, but it finally crashed last night. But when this happened, I noticed something that has been a similar theme throughout my ordeal. Many times, when I instigate a crash, it happens when either clicking on something in the second monitor(which is plugged into the second video card) or dragging a window from the second monitor to the main one.
Does anyone think it's possible that the video card controlling that second monitor could be causing the issue? I've already swapped in a known good video card to see if that works, but I think on the next crash I'm going to be reinstalling Windows 7.
Does anyone have anything else I can try to figure out this problem? Like I said, the errors have no consistency when I look at them in Blue Screen View, so I don't have much to go finding the actual problem.
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