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Constant crashing, freezing, BSOD, restarting
Hello, I am hoping some of the great people here might be able to help me identify whatever is causing my problems with windows 7. So first off here is some basic
info about the system:
Windows 7 64bit OEM
Hardware maybe 3 to 4 years old. Computer home built, ran for years flawlessly on XP and then flawlessly with a pirated version of win7 for a short time before buying Windows 7 since it seems to be a fantastic OS.
The OS is as old as yesterday, I have formatted many times in the last week trying to figure out what is wrong by limiting the installed software. The system seems to work "better" before I install any drivers, but it still crashed once even with the barebones system fresh installed. Currently I have installed the mobo drivers, graphics drivers and that's it. The computer ran fine for the rest of the day, I turn it on this morning and it crashed within minutes of start up, simply locking up and the computer repeating the "beep beep beep beep" sound from the mobos speaker.
The crashes are usually freezes, where the computer simply locks up and becomes unresponsive, however sometimes it produces a BSOD, one time the screen just went blue and it didn't even write any text out to it. Sometimes it also just restarts. Before I formatted for a while it would do a rather bizarre thing such that when it started up it would "freeze" for minutes at a time, seemingly as it extremely slowly loaded the gui objects in short bursts and then would run ok, until I opened internet explorer for instance where it would freeze again for moments while it seemingly loaded screen objects.
Anyhow, I am guessing some part of my hardware is faulty since I cant imagine this is a software issue. The only thing that still makes me think it might be software is the face that after a format and a fresh install the computer will run perfectly for ages until it updates and restarts.
Hopefully someone can help point me in the right direction, thanks for your time :)
I have attached a zip with the files from the Windows_NT6_BSOD_v3.03_jcgriff2_ and also the perfmon report as well as the results from "SF Diag Tool" found on these forums.
P.S I ran memtest for 6 passes with no errors, just in case that is important too.