Alright despite the fact i cant afford it i went and got two new sticks of ram and took the old one out. Been running the system for around 24 hours now and no crash yet. Hopefully it stays that way
Alright im working on lowering my memory usage. The key things that are standing out to me right now is one of the svchost.exe is using anywhere between 60-100mb or memory. Also MsMpEng.exe which is the process for MSE which i just installed is consuming a whopping 150mb of memory while not...
Thanks for that. Yea i used to have 4Gb of ram in the machine but the second stick died on me. Was gonna replace it when funds allow. Shouldn't be any malware issues as i reformatted last week.... but will check anyway All drivers have been updated. Will try uninstall/reinstalling the...
Im looking in the Diagnostics-Performance of the event viewer now... Pretty much all of the warnings and errors here relate to delays in booting up / launching an application. Cant see anything that i think could be affecting drivers or causing a crash. Is there anywhere i can upload this...
Update: After running the PC with much more acceptable temperature values Ive still had the crash happen 3 times in the past 24 hours. So if its not temperature.... what the hell is it?
After opening up the GPU and dusting it out a bit idle temp is now around 50. Ill run it under load tomorrow and see how it fairs and also see how often i crash
well there are two intake and two output fans so yea thats balanced. Ill pull out the GPU and check the fan in that and dust that out. Other than that ill just see how it goes for the next few days