Check Disk, then BSOD...?

Great, got another problem with my computer....

So, today, I was using my computer like normal. Shut it down, and shortly started it back up to (ironically) back up some files.

chkdsk ran at startup for some reason--still not sure why. I did not ask it to do that. It went around deleting old things, recovering files, removing attributes, and so on, for several minutes. Then, it restarted like normal.

So far, so good, right? Then, I plugged in a USB hard drive (pretty key to backing stuff up), and sudden BSOD. The screen lasted so shortly that I could barely identify it. It restarted.

Obviously, that freaked me out a little bit, but the last time I got a BSOD, all I did was clean the registry using Trend Micro's system tuner, so I meant to do that. When I went to open it, though, it did it again. It was very fast. Uptime was probably about one minute at the time of the BSOD.

I am not sure what the problem would be, except that the disk check might have screwed something up. Any ideas? Getting to my files might be easier said than done for a while, so sorry if I cannot provide crash logs.

System specs:
Manufacturer: Gateway
OS: Windows 7 x64 Professional (should have all recent updates)
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo P8400 @2.26GHz
RAM: OCZ 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3 1333 RAM
Graphics: NVidia GeForce 9800M GTS
Memory:
- OCZ Agility 2 SSD 60GB (OS and a few other programs)
- WD Scorpio 5400rpm 160GB (most of the storage)

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Atturo said:

Great, got another problem with my computer....

So, today, I was using my computer like normal. Shut it down, and shortly started it back up to (ironically) back up some files.

chkdsk ran at startup for some reason--still not sure why. I did not ask it to do that. It went around deleting old things, recovering files, removing attributes, and so on, for several minutes. Then, it restarted like normal.

So far, so good, right? Then, I plugged in a USB hard drive (pretty key to backing stuff up), and sudden BSOD. The screen lasted so shortly that I could barely identify it. It restarted.

Obviously, that freaked me out a little bit, but the last time I got a BSOD, all I did was clean the registry using Trend Micro's system tuner, so I meant to do that. When I went to open it, though, it did it again. It was very fast. Uptime was probably about one minute at the time of the BSOD.

I am not sure what the problem would be, except that the disk check might have screwed something up. Any ideas? Getting to my files might be easier said than done for a while, so sorry if I cannot provide crash logs.

System specs:
Manufacturer: Gateway
OS: Windows 7 x64 Professional (should have all recent updates)
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo P8400 @2.26GHz
RAM: OCZ 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3 1333 RAM
Graphics: NVidia GeForce 9800M GTS
Memory:
- OCZ Agility 2 SSD 60GB (OS and a few other programs)
- WD Scorpio 5400rpm 160GB (most of the storage)

Any help is greatly appreciated!

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