P650RP6 bsod and freezing

I just purchased a barebones P650RP6 and put a 1tb 850evo and some ram in there. I installed windows 10 build 1607. But after a few hours I got a bsod. This started a chain of other freezes and bsod's. Basically it rendered my laptop unusable.

I read that there are a lot of people that are having issues with windows 10 after the anniversary update so I decided to reinstall windows build 1511. But immediately after booting into the freshly installed OS the first bsod occured already. I dismissed it as a fluke. It ran fine for a few hours but it wasn't long before it was back to being unusable again. There is no pattern to the crashes, they appear to happen randomly. I also can't get much usefull information from the windows crash dumps.

At this point I'm asking myself if it might be a hardware issue. I've tried 2 different builds of windows 10 already with completely clean installs. I don't think clevo supplies drivers for this laptop for any other version of windows so I'm not sure if I should try windows 8.1. At this point I'm quite desperate though, I've wasted several days already trying to make this damn thing work. Should I investigate more? Should I try more windows installs? Should I assume hardware issue and send it back?

 

You mentioned that you installed your own RAM in the machine. You can try reseating your RAM or swapping slots between the DIMMs. After that you can try doing a Memtest overnight and see if your RAM is faulty. Those kinds of issues are vert often RAM related. If that doesn't get you anywhere, I would RMA the machine. BSODs are not normal right after a fresh Windows install, even without all drivers installed.

 

Thanks so much! I never heard of memtest86 before, but now I will never forget.



Now to be sure it is the ram and not the dimm slot that is faulty, I could put the ram in a different computer and see if it still shows errors, right? (edit: I forgot my old thinkpad doesn't support ddr4, but putting the same ram in different dimm slot should do the same trick I guess)

 

That's right, if you only have one DIMM installed then changing to a different slot will do the trick. This seems like a clear-cut case of bad RAM to me though. Fortunately most brands offer lifetime warranty on their DIMMs so you will probably be able to replace it right away.