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Getting BSOD / Think it might be related to my HDD.
Just built the computer with all new parts expect for the hard drive (it was a pretty old one.) Everything went completely fine but the hard drive was making some weird sounds like it was dying (grinding and stuff.) I pretty much have an idea that this is the hard drive, I just want to confirm that though because the error I get on the BSOD is 0x0000001A which is apparently RAM/memory related. This makes no sense though because I only have on stick of 4GB RAM installed so my computer shouldn't run in the first place if that was the problem.
This is on Windows 7 Home Premium x64. Also I don't get these BSOD's instantly after start up (they usually take a while.) Also, I only started getting them after the system did one of those disk checks on start up because of "corrupted" files. It's a pretty big coincidence because this is the same hard drive a friend of mine used and if I recall correctly, he had same errors also. Thanks for any help guys, and please be quick so I know if I need to pick up a new hard drive or RMA the ram (before I run out of time) if that is the problem...
Last edited by Zephor; 06 May 2012 at 03:15.