Posts by Jamie Barrett2

I went ahead and got all the drivers installed.

ATX Cooler Master 500W
G. SKILL 8 GB DDR3-1600Mhz F3-12800CL10S-8GBXL
HDD 1TB, WD10EZEX, SATA 6GB, 7200rpm, 64MB
SSD Kingston HyperX 120GB SATA3 2.5" SH103S3/120G
MB ASUS H81M-K Intel Core i3 2xDDR-1333 PCle16
CPU INTEL Core i5-4460 3.20GHZ 6MB L3 LGA1150 BOX, Haswell
ASUS VGA GTX750TI-PH-2GD5; Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 ti, 2GB GDDR5

So, I went ahead and installed Windows 8.1 on my rig, and ever since then, I’ve been dealing with this incredibly annoying issue where the whole computer just randomly freezes up on me. Then, out of nowhere, you get that dreaded blue screen saying "your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart," and before I can even process what happened, the system just reboots itself after a few seconds. Usually, the error message points toward some kind of "critical structure corruption," though honestly, I can't tell you if that was the only one because it’s happened a few different ways, but I definitely remember this specific one since it keeps happening over and over again. I did a bit of digging on Google to see if anyone else was struggling with this, and most of the suggested fixes involved tweaking various PC settings, which I went through and did, but nothing really made a meaningful difference. It’s just as frustrating as it sounds.

Does anyone here have any clue how to actually fix this? Thanks.