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BSODs and Prime95 failures

My computer is notoriously unstable. It blue screens all the time. I'm running Windows 7. Here's what's in the box:

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Guest [Entry]

"First things first - Go to Control Panel > System (Windows Key+Pause/Break) and then under Advanced, you should see ""Startup and recovery"", click Settings and you can disable Automatic restart on system failure.

Next time a BSOD occurs, you can see what the cause is.

Also, you may want to see Blue Screen View, a very good tool to help you see previous Blue screen errors.

Now, As ~quack said, just because it passes some tests, doesn't mean it is good. If you ran it for a few hours, swapping the modules around and re-running again may make it quickly touch some places it didn't before - but really, unless you run memtest86+ for around (or ideally over) 48 hours, you will not have a good result.

Next, the errors you said are most commonly down to faulty/corrupt/bad memory, but can really be anything - the most likely reason is bad/dodgy device drivers.

If you are getting this every time you run Prime95, I would highly recommend you try unplugging EVERYTHING from your machine other than power, video and keyboard (and mouse, unless you are confident of using the machine without one). Now, go to safe mode and try running Prime 95 again. This is the best way of testing if it is a driver issue - apart from actually reinstalling Windows from scratch and not installing any drivers!

If you are still seeing random problems and Memtest86+ really is not showing errors, it is most likely a problem with the motherboard or even CPU, however, this can be very hard to diagnose.

As for temperature - the lower the temperature, the slower the fan speed - your CPU is very cool and there is nothing to worry about."
Guest [Entry]

"Googling for BSOD with Gigabyte EX58-UD3R and OCZ gold gives me several results, what's common is that most of the BSOD vanish on changing the memory timings and voltage settings.

Have a look:

Tweak Town
Overclockers
Tom's Hardware"