Odd BSOD

The111

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My specs:

EVGA x58 (E758), BIOS SZ2E
i7 920 D0 @ 3.8GHz
Prolimatech Megahalems
3x2GB OCZ DDR3 1600 7-7-7-24
MSI 4890
Corsair 850W
OCZ Vertex 120GB SSD
Vista x64

I do not think this BSOD is O/C related because I have passed over 20 LinX runs and 12 hrs Prime95 no problem. For weeks I have been running with no BSOD's but last night I saw two in a few hours.

The first one happened while exiting a game (TF2), but I was trying to exit during a map load which confuses Steam sometimes so I thought that might have something to do with it.

The second one happened while changing media in the WMP queue (right as I hit fast forward). I took a screen of this one, see below.

http://www.matthoover.com/misc/evga/bsod.jpg

Any ideas?

I have one weird idea. A few days ago I had my case open to do some re-configuration with drives/cables, etc. When I was done I booted up to make sure all my fans and everything was running before closing the case. Once Vista had loaded I went to put the right side panel back on (which only covers the wires routed behind the mobo tray), and as soon as I started putting pressure on it (I have a LOT of wires routed back there and even though I tried to arrange them neatly it's still a tight fit) the PC rebooted without warning. My theory was that one of the cable connections somewhere was finicky enough that putting pressure on the cable caused the signal to flicker. So I promised myself I wouldn't even do simple things like close panels any more with PC powered on. Now, it's been running ok for days since I closed it up, but is it possible that I still have a weak connection somewhere that could be responsible for a seemingly random BSOD? Still weird how it happened at precise moments (while exiting a game or changing a movie file).
 

mpilchfamily

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Prime stable and other similar software being stable with an OC doesn't garentee its a stable OC. Its either the RAM causeing the problem or the OC. You should drop the OC and test the RAM with Memtest. If it all checks out then its likely and unstable OC.
 

The111

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Good to know. I'm sure my voltages still need a bit more playing with. I am new to OC'ing and didn't know that it could still be marginally unstable even after passing the stress tests.

My DIMM V is only 1.55 which is a bit low for the speed I'm at so I'm sure I could raise that. Thanks.