Bluescreens galore

I think ultimately the graphic card was at fault.

How I came to this brilliant conclusion: Today the card gave me artifacts and pretty colors, and died.

I will see how the system does a cold boot without the card tomorrow. The weird thing was, when I gave the card to a friend to test it, he had no problems with it. That, and the fact it was pretty much new, just back from RMA, made me think its out of the possibilities. I just hope I finally found the culprit and that there is not something else.

Another great detail is, that the card is like 2 or 3 months over warranty, and I don't have money for a new one.

That alone puts Murphy's Law on the graphics card!

In case you haven't laughed today: The gpu is an additional defect, but not the cause.

I started it again today, without the dead gpu and guess what? PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA

What the hell is this? Its entirely new ram which doesn't show any memory erorrs, its an entirely new mainboard, and yet I get memory corruption errors?

What else can this be? So far this only seems to happen on cold boot too, not like before on normal boots and in between.

Anything new with the "home computer from hell"?!

Yes, I got my graphics card back to work (artifacts and bluescreen when using 3D mode, as I said earlier) by sticking it into the oven.

Runs like a charm now.

I think the mainboard did a difference too. I think the only thing left now is the ram (which I already switched, but since its G.Skill again and it has that cold boot bug, I probably got a lemon again).

I only get 1 bluescreen in the morning now, after the PC was off for at least 6 hours. A restart, and everything works fine all day. It probably was the mainboard which was defect, maybe the graphiccards video ram helped too, I don't know.

Now it seems I only have that Ram cold boot bug, and I'm hoping it is all back to normal when I send the ram to the RMA. (G.Skill support said that as well).

I couldn't do it yet though, I didn't want to be unable to use my desktop for another 2 weeks again, so I waited and put up with the 1 bluescreen in the morning. I will send it in later though, and will report if that fixes everything.

Sorry if something doesn't make quite sense, its 1:40 am and I'm quite tired.