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My friend hasn't been in town yet so I haven't been able to give me one of my RAM sticks but here is a mini update. I had him run sfc /scannow last night for the hell of it since it was strange that the crashing was mostly gone for a couple days and then returned largely in the same fashion. He...

Yes, I do happen to have ram modules of the same type/speed/model/brand/size he has. I also know there were no warnings or errors when I let my ram sticks run on my computer with the same motherboard model. I'll pop a stick out and give in to him to test with.

Well I suppose it was too much to hope for a clear week! 3 more dumps attached. The first one seems to indicate a DX file, the 2nd one occurred while he was playing World of Warcraft so I figured it might be related, but then Third one occurred when he got up and left his computer alone for a...

Update: Furmark ran fine for an hour without any changes. It was running just as smoothly at the end as it did in the beginning. No more BSODs since the last DMP I posted. Occasionally some games will run fine for a few hours but then they abruptly start crashing to desktop with no logs. A quick...

Update; he is in AHCI mode. The only other option is RAID

Unless memtest6 is different from memtest86, yes it was done; We actually used furmark initially when my friend's computer was first built to find out the first GPU was DOA. We couldn't even start the test without it crashing on my friend's computer, so we tested the GPU in 2 known good...

Welp, there was a BSOD today but it was on boot and didn't reoccur upon restart. DMP attached I am hoping this was a fluke but I somehow doubt it given the history of events! EDIT: Additional notes are that late last night games and other 3D programs kept crashing to desktop very quickly. No...

Its an SSD (Samsung Pro 850 512GB). I assume it was clean. Initially he had windows 10 on but had more severe problems. So he booted from the windows 8.1 disk and presumeably formatted the drive since he had to re-copy his personal files back after installing windows 8.1. Okay, so I just had...

The power supply is SeaSonic X-1050 ( SS-1050XM2 ) EDIT: just got a hold of him. He did use a disk for windows 8.1.

Well that hope was short lived! My friend played a game for an hour or so and then browsed the web for a bit before leaving to run some errands. He left the computer idle for a few hours and there was no BSODs during any of that activity. However, when he returned he tried to fire up Overwatch...

Update: I had my friend removal all Killer/Rivet software and manually install Just the network driver. While using Driver Verifier he got a couple blue screens pointing to just nvlddmkm.sys, so we then ran DDU and then got the latest Nvidia drivers and installed only the...

Okay, update here. Memtest 86 ran over the weekend, we got 13 passses with no errors but a warning that the RAM may be vulnerable to high frequency row hammer bit flips. Moving on, I walked my friend through how to run driver verifier and it triggered a nice amount of BSODs very quickly...

Wait why would he need a boot disk to get into safemode? Wouldn't F8->safemode work?

Strange, MSI Afterburner isnt listed programs/features list nor is it in the program list. Perhaps we'll have to manually remove it. Update; we manage to get 2 memtest passes in before he needed to use his computer for other things; there were no failures. Since he is leaving for a trip this...

I had thought we unstalled afterburner... I'll remind him to do so before we do the memtest