Re: Fresh install, plus personal files, still crashing.

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 4 Aug 2020 18:21:12 -0500, Rene
Lamontagne <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 2020-08-04 6:11 p.m., micky wrote:
>> My previous thread is pretty far back so to recap, I had had 50+ BSODs
>> with 5 or more different reasons given.
>> 
>> I installed the May update over my current win10 and then downloaded a
>> whole version and installed that over it.  No change.
>> 
>> Debugging was hard because it sometimes crashes before it fully boots
>> and sometimes within 30 seconds.   Worked fine in Safe Mode
>> 
>> So I used that source of media, I forget t he name, and re-installed
>> win10 keeping my personal files and nothing else, no installed programs
>> other than what comes with win10 out of the box.
>> 
>> Then I installed Firefox, nothing else.
>> 
>> Guess what?  it still crashes with a BSOD. Sometimes before FF is
>> started.  One reason was less than or equal and another was something
>> else.
>> 
>> I thought this should prevent crashes?
>> 
>> Unless it's hardware.    I had run Memtest86 for 8 hours iirc before
>> with no errors.  Last nght 17 hours with no errors, 7 full passes?
>> 
>> What else could be the problem?
>> Optiplex 755  Win10 Pro 8 Gig RAM    Originally with Vista or 7
>> installed.  Does that matter?
>> 
>> Should I try safe mode?   What is the point?
>> 
>
>How much  memory do you have? How many sticks?

8 gigs.  Two iirc. 
>
>try running one stick at a time in each used slot.

So is that 4 possibilities? 

>If that still fails try a new power supply.

I have a bunch of power supplies that I took from full-size PC's but
this PC is one size smaller, 12"x 12 or 13 x 3.5.  So they probably
wont' fit, right? 

I see that ones that do fit are only  ..... not so cheap.   $44 on
Amazon, $20.55 on ebay, ...less for refurbished, which in this case
probably means just "used".  What can they refurbish?  They blow out the
dust? 

Any chance the connectors for those other power supplies I have will fit
and I can just run with one of them (and the cover not on the case)
until I see if it works better with a better PSU?   Then I'll buy a new
one. .  

But the advantage is that if there is a hardware problem, and not a
software problem, I can use the disk clone I made just as the problem
was starting, and I'll be back where I was. 
>
>Rene