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A Quick BSOD Now an Intermittent Shutdown During Startup Splash Screen
Hi,
What HappensMy computer recently developed this problem of a cold shutdown during the booting sequence. It happens after POST when Windows starts to load and the HD's arm begins to read.
As soon as I hear the hard drive it shuts down.
When I boot the system afterwards, it passes the POST w/ no beeps and I'm prompted of a previous Anti-Surgy shutdown (feature of my mobo) then to press F1 to go to BIOS setup to edit power settings or press F2 to load default values and continue.
Most of the voltage settings are set on Auto so I usually press F2.
Next, the "Starting Windows" appears and right before the Windows 7 bitmap animation the system shuts down.
This is the cycle I've experienced all day.
Why & When it HappenedWhat lead to this happening was me dl'ing a torrent throughout the night (had no firewall on...) then woke up to the machine frozen at desktop. I hard rebooted, received a quick blue screen, and then had this intermittent shutting down at the start-up screen.
I've made no major prior hardware or software changes for weeks.
Troubleshooting
The troubleshooting I've done are:
-Air compressing everything from PSU to GPU
-Re-applying mid-grade thermal paste to my CPU & GPU
-Tried to load Win7 on another HD (the Setup files will load from my USB but the "Starting Windows" splash screen appears with the same shutdown)(*For some reason I'll pass the splash screen sometimes (w/video card) but after formatting the partition on the HD I receive the message "your system hasn't configured this device as bootable" and to "configure its controller in BIOS." There were no options in setup.*)
-Removed 6-pin power cable from video card (*Successful boot w/ integrated graphics*)
-I've ran Startup Repair but it returns no errors.
-Ran Avira virus scan - No Detections
-Turned COMODO Firewall ON
-I haven't let my new/used video card cool down much or tried my other video card yet but those are next on the list of troubleshooting. Wish I had another PSU lying around.
Possible Problems that I Could Think of-No restore points or backups!!
-PSU Issues
-Overheating
-Video Card Damaged (was bought used, and I've used it pretty intensely with some new games) *I've had a few crashes to desktop while playing games.
-Mobo Issues (Unlikely because its fairly new)
-Virus
That's ItIf my system specs don't show with this thread I'll post another with them.
Well, that's pretty much it in a nutshell. Mainly, I would like to be able to use my recently bought video card but I would also like to resolve this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.