August 2011 is the second year anniversary for my PC. The quad core piece of machinery served me amazingly well for the last two years, spanning heavy usage of Windows and Linux. Unfortunately for the last one month, after being in storage for about two months earlier without any usage, it started to act a bit weird. A number of kernel panics in Linux and BSODs in Windows 7 x64 with low level errors are almost usual these days. For my part, I did remove all the components from my cabinet, cleaned it and reinstalled all of them with care. Sadly, that didn’t seem to stop the errors and the PC gets screwed up while doing system intensive tasks like high-end gaming. Memtest86 threw a few errors once while the RAM sticks were on dual channel but couldn’t reproduce the error afterwards. Continue reading →