My most annoying horrible computer problem

[Sinnyowns]

Last september I built a computer which worked for about 2 minutes before giving me BSOD's

Now I will tell you what I've done.

Tried different RAM (new sticks all together)

New BIOS update

New PSU (Corsair 620) over Corsair 850

Tried an i5 750 instead of my 860

Tried my 8800GTS over my GTX275

New DVD drive

Taken out my solid state drive.

Taken out all my harddrives

Booted on a brand new SG 500GB

Cleared CMOS

Tried Win7, Vista, XP

Different Keyboard and mouse.

Messed about in the BIOS changing RAM speeds (it's not overclocked)


After trying all that I am still getting BSOD's


Which left me to RMA the Motherboard, ebuyer said they found nothing wrong with it.
Now do I buy a new Motherboard? Or what else could it be? Because I am getting sick and tired of not having a working computer.

The BSOD's are;
'system service exception'
'page error in nonpaged area'
'memory management'


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After trying a few more things. I decided to try a new SATA cable, guess what...

Problem solved. I mean seriously, do you know how silly I feel now? Not only because of the amount of time and money I wasted, but also how it was something so small and simple. -.-


I just thought I'd share my stupidity and so you know its not always core hardware thats causing the hell issue :P

[Vimes]

lol yeah but ya never really think to check/replace the cables. In future should i have any problems i'll think to check the cables before buying replacement parts lol

[fbh-]

SATA cable... hmm never thought of that when looking at BSODs I've had with same message as yours lol O_o

[dinozo74]

Hmmm, it opened my eyes. Maybe I should check the 3 SATA Hard Drives I have ... I thought those were KO but maybe not as I changed the cables ...

[NickyBoyJunior]

I've had problems very similar to these in the past. Luckily I decided to swap Sata cables as one of the first things before going for the hardcore solutions :P Took absolutely ages of searching on the interweb to figure out that that could have any effect though. Computers are a pain in the arse sometimes!