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Getting a lot of BSODs and Kernel Panics in Windows and Linux

Hi everybdy

I am totally new to this comunity. And my friend actually suggested this place cause he told me he had a very serious problem with his phone and he got some serious help in here and he fixed his phone all by himself. anyways, my problem:

I am getting a lot of bluescreens in different versions of Windows 7 (64bit and 32bit), and a lot of Kernel panics in Different distributions of Linux (debian and ubuntu). At first I didn't know what was causing these stop screens, but here is the situation so far:

1- First I had no idea why I was getting these blue screens.

2- I started to think maybe I was getting these errors because of some virus or rootkit, so I started scanning the whole drives of my system using Kaspersky, F-secure, Bitdefender, Vipre, escan and their rescue disks, and none of them found anything, except for Comodo and Malwarebytes that found two to three unwanted files and I removed them.

3- I realised that I was getting different BSODs eachtime, with differnet messages.

4- I installed ubuntu, and then debiam but in them either the screen froze or I got kernel panics.

5- I tried to test different parts of my machine starting with my hard disks, and GPU and I discovered that: if I use my main boot harddisk to trandfer data of more than 20GB at a time, there is very high probability that I might get a blue screen and for more than 30GB I will get one without anydoubt, but that is much less likely to happen in safemode boot of windows.

6- If I update my GPU driver to the latest version which is on nvidia website, I will be getting blue screens left and right, ike one every two or three minutes, but that is not constant and is random. but when I do gaming, like State of Decay, or NFS Undercover, or GTA IV, I wouldn't get any blue screens not even after 13 hours of playing.

7-I though maybe there was a rootkit or a worm hidden in the firmware of my harddisk, so I updated the frmwares of both my harddisk and my BIOS. But again that did no good.

8- Now I am thinking it might be power supply (my brother suggested) and the fact that it might not be doing it's switching job as it should, and in less than a fraction of a second, it's supply lines might be either dropping dramatically, or going extremly high. and I get a BSOD then. But I am not sure about that.

What can be done?

my specs:

PSU: 330W http://www.green-case.com/products/power...

CPU: Intel Pentium G3220

Ram: Conexant (Rockwell) ST51264BA1339.16FM 4GB

Main Board: Gigabyte H81M-S2pv rev.1.0

GPU: ASUS Nvidia GT218 [GeForce 210]

HD1: Seagate ST3500418AS 500GB

HD2: WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0

Thank you for your help previously

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Going to run a long run of memtest86+ on my system, be right back with the news.

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Blue screens can be caused by both software and hardware related issued. My guess is that you either have bad RAM (memtest won't always pick this up) or a bad hard drive. I don't believe that your GPU or software is the problem. Power supplies usually fail completely and not in the way you're describing. However, a 330W power supply isn't a whole lot, it might be okay for the specs you've described. However, you may be due for an upgrade. You can test your ram with memtest, or by removing and testing one module at a time and seeing if you get blue screens then. Your hard drives actually have a built in self-testing feature called "S.M.A.R.T.", the data produced by this can be viewed in programs such as CrystalDiskInfo. This program will display the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard drives and will tell you any problems with your disks. Did you build your PC or buy it from a manufacturer? If you bought it, can you please tell me the model number, this will help me look into the issue further.

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Hi, thank you for your interest and through answer. No, it is actually a self-built PC, only I didn't built it myself, I asked the store engineers to put it together for me. It is a new PC almost 4 months old.

I ran the memtest86+ for 5 passes last night, with no error.

I only have one RAM stick.

I have run the self test of both of my hard drives, and I have checked their SMART data using hard-Disk-sentinel, and they are both healthy.

I am truly stuck.

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I think I found something interesting. I realized that most of my errors in Ubuntu are either compiz related or somewhat graphical, while in windows they are for the most part hard disk related (only happen more when I do more hard disk related stuff).

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Going to run Window 7's RAM diagnostics tool.

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BSOD(BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH, RSOD (RED SCREEN OF DEATH) , OR KP (KERNEL PANIC)?

Be sure to go to a COMPUTER REPAIR PLACE to repair it so u dont get the BSOD or the RSOD. Try to avoid getting a KERNEL PANIC. Break your LINUX, Fix your LINUX, Or Sell the LINUX all together when you get a kernel panic. Restart your COMPUTER when you get the RSOD or the BSOD.

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There's probably a (or some) virus(es) too.

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