I've had this computer for a little over a year, built it myself, pretty solid machine. Except about a week ago it started freezing/crashing anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours after startup. Sometimes the crashes result in BSODs. It's crashed both while just browsing the internet and also while playing video games.

A few times after crashing the computer took much longer to start back up than it normally would, and once or twice it froze on the startup splash screen for my motherboard. Once after crash it never booted up - the fans were running and presumably so was the rest of the system, but my monitor remained blank and repeatedly went idle (due to no video signal from the computer).

When I first built my computer, I had a problem with crashes, and eventually found out that the cause was a defective stick of RAM. It seems unlikely that this is the case here since one of my sticks of RAM would have had to have failed, which I presume is much less common than getting a stick of DOA RAM.

Not sure what information would be relevant for my case as I have no idea what the possible causes of this are, could any posters shed some light on this?

Thanks.

Read the following link and DL the BlueScreenView utility which is linked on that page:

http://blog.nirsoft.net/2010/07/27/h...files-on-bsod/

Post results.

Getting a 404 on that page. But I have Google!

Not sure if you want this or the goofy 20-column tables this program gives you.
My 2 BSODs:
________________________

A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage
to your computer.

The problem seems to be caused by the following file: Ntfs.sys

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen,
restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow
these steps:

Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed.
If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer
for any Windows updates you might need.

If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware
or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing.
If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart
your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then
select Safe Mode.

Technical Information:

*** STOP: 0x00000050 (0xfffff87f8dac209c, 0x0000000000000000, 0xfffff8000307e10f,
0x0000000000000005)

*** Ntfs.sys - Address 0xfffff8800125242c base at 0xfffff8800123d000 DateStamp
0x4a5bc14f

_________________________


A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage
to your computer.

The problem seems to be caused by the following file: ntoskrnl.exe

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen,
restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow
these steps:

Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed.
If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer
for any Windows updates you might need.

If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware
or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing.
If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart
your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then
select Safe Mode.

Technical Information:

*** STOP: 0x00000050 (0xffffffff894c6055, 0x0000000000000001, 0xfffff8000309a6bf,
0x0000000000000005)

*** ntoskrnl.exe - Address 0xfffff80003080740 base at 0xfffff80003010000 DateStamp
0x4c1c44a9

Sorry, it worked a few days ago. Try these:

BlueScreenView

Help Troubleshoot the Blue Screen of Death with BlueScreenView

I would guess that your problem is with the memory but maybe you will get more info if you run the BlueScreenView utility.

The page is still up. Somebody doesn't know how to poast links This link should work:
http://blog.nirsoft.net/2010/07/27/h...files-on-bsod/

To locate where the error exactly comes from we would need to debug your memory.dmp.

But before, please run Prime95 blend for a couple of hours to exclude hardware errors.

How will me aiding in the search for Mersenne prime numbers tell me if I have hardware errors?

Leh eek!

It's a stress test for your hardware, everything's running at 100% capacity. If your pc has the smallest flaw, prime will crash after a while.