Hard locks and bluescreens?

[Stigmata]

Doesn't seem to be related to my memory or CPU, I'm running 3 instances of Memtest and haven't crashed. I suspect it's my hard drive or my motherboard, but I don't have any way to switch those out. GPU is fine. Any ideas? I'm keeping this short in case I crash again :v

 

[xcellerate]

Have you checked your system log in the event logs in computer management? It'd be a good place to start looking for reasons.

 

[Stigmata]

Gave that a look, there are no events of any real significance other than a bunch of nondescript critical errors coinciding with every bluescreen/locking crash I've had in the past three months. No hardware events are listed, which I think is odd. Also I ran 3 instances of memtest and found no errors, which also used 95% CPU, and when I closed one instance I copied my desktop (1.36GB) to E: in case I need to reformat. Still running fine I guess... but I'm scared to launch BF3.

[edit] Decided to reseat my CPU, and I must have done something different with my application of thermal paste, because my temperatures have dropped by about... oh, 12 degrees. I'll see how this progresses.

 

[hool10]

Have you made any hardware changes such as the RAM? Also give us the error code readings. I don't know if anybody recalls but back in Spring time my computer had the exact same faults when I got a new hard drive and a 2GB RAM stick. I swore to God himself literally that it was the RAM stick because if I removed the stick, everything was fine. However once it was put back in, crashing, etc would happen. Memtest also showed up "just fine". So I RMA'd the RAM to A-DATA and about a month later they sent me a new stick with a lanyard (which I promptly threw out). Now it's Fall and I have not had any errors since.

 

[kdub70]

reseat your ram and check your hdd cables. I had this same problem bout a week ago and this fixed it.