Almost a full year of bluescreens

[Drarkan]

Yeah, some video cards, especially if you are bridging them, they themselves are taking in about 150W-300W in some cases so put 2 or 3 together, coupled with your CPU, Memory, other components, and soon enough you will be needing more power. My 400W ran out real quick lol.

[Gaupz]

I currently have a 700W power supply, should be enough for my system.

[Gaupz]

Ok so i looked closely at my motherboard and even looked at some feedback/reviews and apparently the motherboard originally put into my computer (Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3) was extremely unstable and A LOT of people that left feedback on Newegg.ca - Computer Parts, PC Components, Laptop Computers, Digital Cameras and more! seemed to have same issues i was having and a lot of other ones related to the unstable motherboard, so i just replace it with an Asus M4A785TD-V EVO, so we will see how my PC runs.

I am pretty confident that this will solve my issues.
I have installed it and done a fresh install of windows, as for the HDD problem windows was overriding the partition i choose to install windows to and was picking the "System Reserved" partition hence the error with not enough space.

[Ualaa]

Hope it works out for you.

I had a freezing issue, when I upgraded to the current i7 based system.
One or two slaves would freeze, whenever I took a griffon anywhere, and remain frozen until I rebooted.

Moved from:
- Q6600, stock speed
- 8GB DDR2, 800mhz
- Asus motherboard
- 2GB 4870X2 video
- 150GB 10k rpm Raptor
- Keyclone

To:
- i7 920, stock speed
- 12GB DDR3, 1600mhz
- Asus motherboard
- 2GB 4870X2 video
- 150GB 10k rpm Raptor
- Keyclone

Even tried IS Boxer with the secondary system, had the same issue.

Did some threads on the boxing sites, and another user (Owltoid) has the exact same motherboard, ram, and video card, plus the same issue.
Downgrading my video to a 1GB - GTX275 (which is the Nvidia equivalent to a single GPU 4870 (mine was an X2, so two 4870's on one card) made my issue disappear.

I cannot imagine blue screens to be any more fun than random slave windows freezing.

[Gaupz]

No Ualaa, blue screens are so annoying. Sometimes it would take hours-days to crash and others it would just crash within 5mins of restart, its hell.

Really hoping this fixes my issue because this is my first good and non walmart computer, having the BSOD issue since day one has been really annoying. Not a great first experience especially since i just learned that my local computer shop lost all of its knowledgeable employees and hired ignorant idiots right before i had bought my PC.

[Ualaa]

Ouch... (

[madmattco]

Correct me if im wrong here, but when you get a BSOD doesnt the system make a log entry or preform a dump of some kind? May be worth checking your error logs in the event viewer to see what the error was.

[Gaupz]

See i was doing that..... I would get all various errors related to RAM, video drivers, device drivers ect stuff that is known to be working fine and have no problems, with further research i found out the my old mobo (Asus m4a89GTD pro/usb3) is a very unstable motherboard and a lot of ppl have actually had the same problems that i was getting, drivers errors even though drivers are up to date, Ram errors even though two types of ram have been tested with memtest86 and have been prooven to work correctly, device errors even though they are working correctly and other known working devices plugged into the computer that are also known to work correctly...It's been quite sometime of my personal and even professional computer techs time to figure out what might be causing the BSOD, i have had each BSOD dump file read and after replacing / testing the options the last one was to try and replace the mobo, i am pretty confident that this will solve my problem.