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BSOD 0x0000007E
I have been getting quite a few BSOD's lately for seemingly no reason. I haven't added any new hardware for a very long time.
I've had 4 major BSOD events, which take several restarts to recover from. A couple of times I had to do a system restore from the installation disk as I couldn't even get to Safe Mode. I'm not totally convinced that the system restore actually fixed anything, I think it might have just been a coincidence that the system then worked.
With or without the Restore the system will work for a while once it has recovered.
I forget what the BSOD said on the first two crashes, but the two latest ones have been 0x0000007E. After the 2nd BSOD the screen said:
The file is possibly corrupt. The file header checksum does not match the computed checksum
After the latest (the 4th) BSOD problems I took out one of my 2 sticks of RAM and the system booted up perfectly. However, I swapped the two sticks around and it booted up fine that time too so I don't think it's a memory problem. I've also run Windows memory diagnostics in standard testing and they both passed. The Extended memory test got stuck around 21% and didn't move for about 40 mins so I aborted. It didn't throw up any errors, though and I could still navigate the diagnostics menu.
I have attached the files as requested. NOTE: I ran the tests with only one stick of RAM in. I'm willing to put them both in to run again if someone thinks it'll make a difference.
Windows 7 . . .
- Ultimate x64
- the original installed OS on the system?
- full retail version
Hardware ranges in age from 1.5 years to 4 months. Laptop chassis + GPU is 4 months, RAM, CPU, HDD 1.5 years
- OS installed around the end of May