Computer crashing-- help please =(

[Aroith]

Thanks for the responses. I built this computer myself and I have 1000 w psu. I always watch the temperatures of my hardware. I keep my graphics card always around 60's c when gaming and my processor cooler. I did a memtest and the ram is fine. So i am hoping it is a software problem. I will reinstall windows tonight, hopefully that works! Appreciate the responses. If the graphics card is broken or the psu is damaged is there any tests I can do myself at home to verify it?

[Aroith]

Yesterday I did take apart my entire computer too look for physical damage. I dusted everything and all the hardware looked perfect. So hoping reinstalling windows will fix it. If it is a hardware problem, everything is still under warranty, but I want to figure out what specifically is broken so i can send it in. I don't want to take it to a computer shop so they can tell me for $200 haha. Again i appreciate the help!! I want to get back to questing =)

[Aroith]

I re-installed windows and it worked perfect for a few days. It did windows 7 updates. One of the updates failed. And now it randomly crashes and I get the same blue screen message. It basically is a default blue screen (saying if hardware/software has been changed etc...) but it also says about updating bios. I guess next thing to do is updating the bios? Could an outdated bios be the cause of windows not updating properly??? Because the problem first started after a windows update. Now that i re-installed windows again it updated and problem is back.

[Variant]

Hopefully, you have your system set up to take periodic snapshots for system backup/restore. If so, first thing to do is to try to restore the system state from a snapshot that was taken prior to the update that you believed caused the problem and see if the problem goes away.