Computer keeps crashing

[JohnB]

System Specs: Here and here.

For a while now my computer has been crashing on a regular basis. As you can imagine this is very annoying. It's a custom build barely 2 years old. I used to get BSODs, but I thought it was triggered by Win-amp. So I stopped using it.

Here's the BSOD

I googled the BSOD code and found this thread.
I followed the advice and ran memtest but it said there were no errors.

Since I stopped using WinAmp, I just get regular crashes instead of BSODs. A minor improvement.

So what would your advice be? Is it a hardware issue? Does windows write the error to a file before it crashes? Are my drivers out of date?

[floodhound2]

Well if it simply crashes then I suspect the power supply is going out. You might want to replace it with a known good PS and see if it solves the problem.

In my 30 years of computer experience it seems that the PS is most often the cause a sudden crash.

The PS is the work horse on a computer. Please take my advice at your own risk as its only advice. Good luck

[floodhound2]

Thinking more on this there is Card Creep issues that can easily be checked as well.

http://www.totalsem.com/techforum/techf ... 6chipcreep

[bad_brain]

how old is the OS install? I had multiple BSOD problems already with my system...and they were ALWAYS caused by some shitty software. I am also running win7 64bit and use the same software I had on XP where I had absolutely no problems....so it's a win7 (64bit?) thingy imo.

[Gogeta70]

Generally, a 0x000000f4 STOP error is caused by corrupted windows sytem files. Try restoring your system for an earlier point before it was crashing (i hope you make system-restore points at least once a month ^_^), or reinstall windows. You could also try figuring out which system files are damaged - though we'll need more information before trying to do that.

http://www.wiki-errors.com/wiki-errors. ... 0x000000F4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2690750" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2675806" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981369" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[ayu]

Usually the cause of BSOD is Windows.

You should get Linux : )

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http://www.debian.org/

[JohnB]

how old is the OS install?

About 1 and a half years. I remember someone on here saying that they format their XP install every couple of years because it slows down the computer so much.

Maybe it is shitty software...uninstalling triliian!

@ Gogeta Thank you for posting those links. I'll use the repair tool and report back.

EDIT: Weird it says in the sidebar it is compatible with windows 7, but when I run the tool "ErrorEND is not compatible with windows 7".

And no I don't create restore points But I seem to remember when you put it in a win 7 installation disk there's an option to repair the install so I guess I can try that....

Usually the cause of BSOD is Windows.

You should get Linux : )

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http://www.debian.org/

Very good

I want to dual boot but I'm paranoid Gparted will wreck my windows partition. Every time I've practised on memory sticks it's failed. So I settled for an "inside install". I'll use it and see if that crashes.

[lilrofl]

In my 30 years of computer experience it seems that the PS is most often the cause a sudden crash.

...it happens often enough that I spent some money on a PSU tester a while back.