PC Dying on its arse

[BloodOmen]

No idea whats been going on but its been dying like fuck the past few days, i've had more BSOD's in the past 4 days than i've had in the past 11 years and the most annoying part of it all? every BSOD has a different error message, any ideas? or does it sound like my motherboard is quite simply fucked to the max.

 

[Litmus]

No idea whats been going on but its been dying like fuck the past few days, i've had more BSOD's in the past 4 days than i've had in the past 11 years and the most annoying part of it all? every BSOD has a different error message, any ideas? or does it sound like my motherboard is quite simply fucked to the max.

Tried takeing RAM slots out one by one until it stops crashing(maybe)?

 

[Kryten]

What are the BSODs saying, specifically?

Always also worth rolling back things like graphics drivers. ATI's recent ones are almost as bad as they used to be in the "good old days" of the original Radeons.

 

[Reno]

Tried takeing RAM slots out one by one until it stops crashing(maybe)?

I'd try this tbh.
My older PC also crashed/BSOD'ed like hell a month or 2 back.
Took out 1 stick of ram and all was fine ( although a lot slower).

 

[BloodOmen]

Got a techie mate around and after many hours of fucking about with it (10) you'd never in 1 million years guess what it was.

Tiny piece of dust between the chip and heatsink, we're talking about 1/4 the size of a 5p piece, before we found that we'd tried fucking everything even tried replacing the PSU/HD... removed this tiny piece of dust you'd never think would cause so much harm and boom full speed, no freezing, no bsod's not a single error.

Just goes to show how fragile pc's are.