Have you tried any hardware changes? Going down to 1 stick of ram and swapping them in an out. Pulling extra hard drives, installing windows on to a different hard drive, if you're on an intel CPU using the integrated gpu instead of your video card? Hard to tell what is going on without more information about what is crashing.
Ok barely getting any system stability now and crashes constantly preventing me from doing anything. I will repeat what happened from the start for sake of clarity:
1. Was getting frequent crashes; BSOD and instant reboots - I needed my phone camera to film the BSOD in order to see the error message "Critical Process Died"
2. During the reboots sometimes Windows 10 would boot, sometimes it wouldn't because it couldn't see the windows install SSD. Had to restart until it was visible or go into bios to manually select it
3. Next Windows wouldn't load/boot - just went into "choose your keyboard layout". It was this point when I reinstalled.
4. Reinstall didn't help, would still get occasional crashes/reboots with Critical Process Died,, but after a few crashes things would be relatively stable.
.....4a) after the reinstall boot screen was not visible on my TV. I had to plug an old monitor into int gfx to see the boot screen, go into bios and tell bios to use the gfx card (not sure how it was set to int gfx = possible clue that bios options somehow reset?)
(Also, after the reinstall I never had any problems with the Windows installation not being found during boot)
5) now crashes constantly within minutes of logging into Windows. Seems to lock up and not even show the BSOD
What are my options?
Don't have work laptop with me and don't feel like messing around as it's Sunday evening here.
Don't have a spare SSD or HD to reinstall on.
I'm thinking I could unplug gfx card and test with internal gfx. And test the memory too
Here are my system specs:
- Streacom ST-F12C Black Aluminium Chassis
- Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI LGA1151 ATX Motherboard
- Intel 6th Gen Core i5 6600K 3.5GHz 91W HD 530 6MB Quad Core CPU
- Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) 2400MHz Memory Kit
- Scythe Shuriken Rev.B Quiet Low Profile CPU Cooler
- Palit Geforce GTX 970 Jetstream 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
- be quiet Pure Power L8 Modular 730W PSU, 80+ Bronze
- Quiet PC IEC C13 UK Mains Power Cord, 1.8m (Type G)
- Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
- WD WD60EFRX Red 6TB 3.5in Hard Disk Drive
- Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit