Recent content by Siben

I'm using the heatsink and fan that came with the processor, and it had thermal compound pre-applied to it. I just finished putting it together around 6am this morning and it was in standby mode most of the day so it's barely seen any use, I guess I'll have to wait and see what it does after a...

Hey all. I just put together a new system and installed an AMD Phenom II x4 995 (3.2Ghz). This is my first AMD chip and a significant upgrade from my old Pentium D but how hot should the chip run? I've got an ASUS motherboard for it and I'm running PC Probe II and the CPU temp seems to jump...

Hrm, ok I'll try it. I cleaned all the dust out of the case last month but I'll do it again. CPU temp when I just rebooted was 39 deg. C I also just checked windows update and saw there was a reliability update so I just installed that as well.

Sweet! New blue screen: Page fault in nonpaged area. ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * *...

550watt BFG Tech GX Series

Update! Used the Avast! uninstall utility at 10pm EST, rebooted machine. Machine blue screened at 1:04am EST. Loaded up the DMP in winDbg: Loading Dump File [C:\Windows\Minidump\012610-17046-01.dmp] Mini Kernel Dump File: Only registers and stack trace are available Symbol search path is...

@Saltgrass: Both times I saw the computer blue screen with my own eyes I had Skype running, along with whatever processes run in the background, I don't believe anything processor intensive was running. @Randy: Don't worry, I've got fairly thick skin and I didn't detect any brusqueness in your...

I just installed Windows 7 shortly after Christmas and on Jan. 3rd I received my first bluescreen error. I downloaded Debugging Tool for Windows (x64) and tried going through the DMP files but I don't know what to make of them. I've only seen the system blue screen twice, the other 9 times it's...