Hey everyone I recently did my first build and it seemed to be working ok but since I first installed windows 7 this computer I keep the getting the blue screen of death. I managed to snap some pictures adn the first error i got was: STOP: 0x000000F4 and so I went and installed all the most recent drivers for everything I could and now I seem to get this error STOP: 0x0000008E. The computer will crash randomly and sometimes will work for long periods of time without crashing at all. It seems to be more frequent when I am playing games though.

Any ideas on how I can fix this!?!? I've researched but can't seem to find anything that has helped so far. any advice is appreciated thanks!!

I did a bit of research with the limited amount of info you gave and it could be a whole host of problems. What I am seeing the most of is this error is most commonly caused by faulty RAM. Best I can offer is attempting to boot the PC off 1 stick of RAM at a time (if you have more than one ofc, I'm assuming you do) to see if you still get the error. If you don't then move on to the next stick until you find which one is faulty.

If none of them seem to be causing the problem when they are put in individually ensure you have them set up in the right configuration; for instance dual channel mobo's will have two slots you will need to install RAM in to and they are generally not side by side.

Failing all this it might by helpful for you to post up some system specs e.g. CPU, Mobo, GPU, PSU, HDD and RAM.

95% likely that it is faulty ram. The reason it will mostly crash during gameplay is because that area of memory is not being accessed, then when games are being played its using more of your ram so more likely its going to try and access the fault section of RAM.

Try taking 1 stick of RAM out and seeing if you get errors. If you do, put in the other stick of RAM. It's not likely that both are faulty.

If it is a driver fault (by some small chance) use BlueScreenView. It's a nifty little program which will determine the file at fault.
But note that ntsokrnl.exe, hal.dll and your video drivers (nvidiaview.exe or ati*something*.exe etc.) will be seen as the cause of the fault in BlueScreenView if the actual cause is your RAM because these files are usually the ones accessing the corrupted sector of ram as it BSOD's.
Other than those files, you might come across a faulty driver like pksec.exe or something which will lead you to the cause of the BSOD's.
But it's still extremely likely that it is faulty RAM.

I had the same problem with my build - As everyone else said, it's most likely the RAM. I bought 2 new sticks and the beast has been happy since

thanks for the help guys I tested using each one separately. First one eventually crashed after a couple of hours with a 0x000000F4 error and now i'm just using the other one and so far so good. Also for the second one i switched the channel i was using (i'm not sure if it matters) but yeah hasn't crashed yet fingers crossed! If it does looks like a new pair of sticks are going to have to be ordered

Yeah ddr3 is very cheap now days (70 bucks for 4gb?) so if you had to have something go wrong I would probably choose that

Ah was going well until I tried installing updates when testing the second stick and came up with the error " STOP: 0x0000008E" so now i'm not sure what to do :/ also slubb these are ddr3, heres the link https://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=13931

Wow ok 65 for 8gb these days. I think my ram goes up to 2000MHz though so that's probly why mine was a little more expensive. The updates you are talking about, are they windows updates?

Also as I said before it will help if you post up what is currently running in your PC because there may be (highly unlikley) a compatibility issue between your Mobo and RAM or something like that.

LOL

2000mhz brah, ZOMFG

go run memtest, chances are a stick if cooked