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[CRH7386]

Hey guys, I really need your help. I built my system like 9 months ago or so. Everything has been fine till now. I had my e8400 overclocked to 3.6ghz so it wasn't too much. I got Fallout 3 not too long ago and it was giving me lots of problems. It was shutting down and sometimes running really slow even on the lowest settings possible. I have SLI with 2 8800 GTS's (512mB) so it should run well. I uninstalled the game and was going to restart the computer and then reinstall it but when i restarted it, after i logged on the windows (Vista Home Premium), It gave me a BSOD, something about hardware error call your vendor. Also, when I hit the restart button, it was slow to do anything and gave an error that said windows explorer not responding and then restarted a few seconds later. I don't know if that will mean anything or not. So anyways, it restarted right away after the BSOD so I couldn't get much information so I tried restarting it again and I got the same BSOD again. So when I restarted again, I went into the bios and set everything back to default and only adjusted the settings for my raid so it could boot up windows. Then i restarted it and it still gave me the same BSOD. I tried to restart to look at the BIOS again and it just came up to the info page before the bios and said it was in safe mode and i must reset cpu or memory frequency. So I restarted again and ran in safe mode. Safe mode seems to work fine. So I defaulted the bios again and now when I start windows, I can log on and everything starts to load and after like 10 seconds it just freezes but no BSOD. I used Mem Test and the memory is good so I'm guessing its the CPU or motherboard. I'm not really sure what to do here since I don't have any extra parts to swap out. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Atheus]

Have you checked all the fans are running? Is your case full of dust or anything else? What voltages were you using to get that overclock?

BTW paragraphs are good.

 

[CRH7386]

Ya, they are all running and there isn't a lot of dust. I usually use a can of air to blow it out every once in a while. I don't remember what the voltages were but they weren't anything crazy. I think 1.3 volts or so. It was a long time ago when I overclocked it.

Other people have suggested its the power supply. I did a disk check with the windows disk as someone suggested and there were no errors.

I tried using 1 GPU at a time and that didn't help either. I also did a system restore with the windows disk and no change so I'm guessing it has to be some piece of hardware.

 

[daniel49]

try running with minimum amount of hardware and then plug things in one at a time till problem shows up.