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BSOD crash after youtube/inserting external hard drive
- 4 year old computer, used to be vista, upgraded to windows 7
A couple of days ago a BSOD started occuring about every 10 minutes and it seemed to also occur whenever I tried inserting a flash drive. It didn't allow for me to read the warning as it booted after half a second. I tried fixing that by restoring windows to a point in time where it worked, and when that didn't work by reinstalling windows 7 from the disc, because it didn't start windows anymore. That seemed to work for a while, but after a couple of hours it started to occur again.
I thought it might be the temperature, so I used comptemp to check it and then cleaned out the heatsink. That dropped the temperature down from the high seventies celcius to about 60 degrees celcius. Sadly, this didn't fix my BSOD problem so I started browsing the internet for other solutions. I tried Memtest, no results. after loads of failed attempts I finally have reached the point of desperation where I'm willing to make a thread, as I'm truly clueless. Any help would be appreciated.
additional info:
- It didn't occur in safe mode. - now it also occurs in safe mode, but only when starting up programs, I'll try to figure out which.
- I did not install any new software, nor did I add any hardware recently.
- there's a few hundred GB of free space on my hard drive.
- I've ran multiple tests for viruses (avira/avg).
- I'll add more when asked/I think of em
thanks in advance
Last edited by JSDM; 07 Jul 2012 at 06:57.