Vista BSOD's and frequent freezing

[ggca4]

Recently I have gotten 2 BSOD's. Also, while watching videos or just surfing my computer freezes and everything is unresponsive. I have run Memtest 2 times (2 passes) and no errors have come up, but while running Windows Memory Diagnostics I have found 'hardware problems', for some reason once the computer has found these errors it freezes and does not complete the test. If you need anything else tell me.. My computer specs are:

Windows Vista Home Premium
HP Pavilion A6040a

These are the mini dumps

Mini102813-01.dmp   28/10/2013 7:52:01 PM   IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL   0x1000000a   0xc080e8b0   0x00000000   0x00000000 0x82471ae4   hal.dll   hal.dll+770c   Hardware Abstraction Layer DLL   Microsoft® Windows® Operating System   Microsoft Corporation 6.0.6002.18005 (lh_sp2rtm.090410-1830)   32-bit   ntoskrnl.exe+5fae4   ntoskrnl.exe+78722   ntoskrnl.exe+99a57   ntoskrnl.exe+4dde4 C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini102813-01.dmp   2   15   6002   164,294   28/10/2013 7:56:22 PM

Mini102713-01.dmp   27/10/2013 2:15:35 PM   DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL   0x100000d1   0x5189cffc   0x00000002   0x00000000 0x853649f8   ecache.sys   ecache.sys+29f8   Special Memory Device Cache   Microsoft® Windows® Operating System   Microsoft Corporation 6.0.6002.18005 (lh_sp2rtm.090410-1830)   32-bit   ecache.sys+29f8   ecache.sys+b24d   ntoskrnl.exe+2e3d4d   ntoskrnl.exe+a70fb C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini102713-01.dmp   2   15   6002   164,246   27/10/2013 4:39:26 PM

[DaveLembke]

I have a very similar system at home for my wife which came with the E4300 Core 2 Duo CPU 1.8Ghz, which has this same exact motherboard your system has. I ended up having to install a stronger power supply to fix similar issues because I had a video card installed that was drawing lots of power and made the system have BSODs with Vista.

Do you have a video card added that is running off the old original power supply? If so, I would swap power supply with a spare good supply if you have one of 400 watts or better in rating.

I have since upgraded my wifes system to the Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz with 4MB Cache when a CPU became available and its going strong still, however I upgraded her to Windows 7 and away from Vista when I bought a 3-license Win 7 family pack 2 years ago.

*If you have a video card added, you can remove this card and try running it on integrated video to see if the crashing stops as well, however the integrated video is not enough for most games if you play games, but if you can find that it is healthy without video card added then you know its the video card or power supply possibly.

[ggca4]

What you described is perfect! Around last year I've added a video card which has a slightly higher power usage then my power supply (original came with computer). Recently I installed a game.. It worked for 1-2 days and thats when my BSOD's/freezes began to happen. After uninstalling my computer worked. This leads me to believe that it is either the game or my computer. Any suggestions or answer?