Blue screen of FUCK

[Louphoria]

Oh dear lawd.


My boyfriend recently bought PC parts to upgrade is PC thingy. But he keeps raging because he keeps having blue screens every... hmm I dunno, 30mins - 1 hour?

I don't know why, he's tried almost everything to resolve the problem and now he doesn't have a clue why.

Any reasons as to why it's doing this?

It's quite a high spec PC.

Asus P6X5-E Motherboard
AMD R7950 Black Edition Graphics card
12GB of RAM (XMS3)


He reckons it's one of those things that's causing the blue screens.

Any suggestions? For the love of GOD.

[Omlett]

Is the power supply good enough for the graphics card? Its the only thing i can think of.

[Louphoria]

He was thinking about the power as well, so he's overclocked that slightly.

I think he's just gonna fuck it and get a new motherboard.

[Jenni]

Is it properly vented? When the graphics card gets to hot you sometimes get a blue screen. Make sure then vets that expel hot air arent blocked.

[Louphoria]

It's definitely not that, the graphics card has 2 fans under it and he also has like another 2 super fast fans blowing through the whole PC.

Then again his RAM is boiling hot most of the time...

[CL0V3R]

I'm going to suggest it's the graphics card. Does it happen during an particular time? Such as loading youtube videos or anything involving flash?

[Jenni]

Its nice to have people on this site who can recognize that this problem is related to the graphics card, my family is the first to say that its a virus of some sort and would want to throw it out

[CL0V3R]

Its nice to have people on this site who can recognize that this problem is related to the graphics card, my family is the first to say that its a virus of some sort and would want to throw it out

Oh I just figured that was the problems since I had the same issue with my graphics card.
At least with the blue screen of death.
They'd throw it out? Even if it was a virus there would be no reason to toss it!

[Louphoria]

I'm going to suggest it's the graphics card. Does it happen during an particular time? Such as loading youtube videos or anything involving flash?

It's mainly when he plays Total War Shogun o.o

I did tell him it was that because it's a pretty complex game.

Ah well, it seems to be okay now he's not playing it. He'll have to reinstall it XD

[Jenni]

I know! They throw it out and are like Well no more computer cant afford another.
Pisses me off :/

[Elliot]

Tell him to re-set his bios to factory defaults. I'm 99% sure he tried to over clock without doing it in incrementally. Tell him to go back to the base clock and play the game.

[Louphoria]

I think he has already restored to BIOS factory defaults.

At first his flatmate was helping him do this because his flatmate is a massive computer nerd. I think he fucked it up in the first place by overclocking it too high, but he then turned down the settings. After that it seemed okay but a lot of his programs were crashing, so now it's on default settings, but the blue screen happens more often when he plays Total War Shogun.