jmillerdls
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Was having reboots about every 3 hours. They seemed to be at random. They would happen when doing a lot of things on the computer and they would happen when I was sleeping and basically the computer was doing nothing. After posting on a half dozen forums and not finding any help, I decided to re-install windows and start from scratch.
This is after buying new RAM and removing a sound card and nic card and switching to on board for both of those.
Windows was a full reinstall.
The new RAM is good, I ran it through memtest86 and it didn't have any errors (unlike my previous RAM)
I replaced the NIC before the reinstall, so no old drivers with that, and I uninstalled the sound card drivers, then booted up in safe mode and driver cleaner'd the files left before installing new drivers for the on board audio.
I've done chckdsk.
I uninstalled, cleaned and then installed new video card drivers...just to try something new.
So, here I am...and I'm still crashing regularly. Does it pretty much have to be the motherboard at this point? I mean, what else could possibly explain this? I'll post the minidumps, hopefully someone can find something I can do. I'm desperate for any help.
This is after buying new RAM and removing a sound card and nic card and switching to on board for both of those.
Windows was a full reinstall.
The new RAM is good, I ran it through memtest86 and it didn't have any errors (unlike my previous RAM)
I replaced the NIC before the reinstall, so no old drivers with that, and I uninstalled the sound card drivers, then booted up in safe mode and driver cleaner'd the files left before installing new drivers for the on board audio.
I've done chckdsk.
I uninstalled, cleaned and then installed new video card drivers...just to try something new.
So, here I am...and I'm still crashing regularly. Does it pretty much have to be the motherboard at this point? I mean, what else could possibly explain this? I'll post the minidumps, hopefully someone can find something I can do. I'm desperate for any help.