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Multi BSOD's Physical Memory dumping & 0x7e & 0x1
Hello!
I'm currently having quite an issue with my computer at home.
I suspect a hardware failure, but it's not impossible to be software (virus?).
System Specs:
Core i3 530 (Clarkdale)
Asus P8 PRO Motherboard (Will have to check specifically which model it is, I'm at work now)
4GB G.SKill RIPJAW RAM (2x2gb dimms 1600mhz)
eVGA Geforce 9600 GT
Primary HDD 1.5TB WD
Windows 7 Ultimate OS
I can't get into windows in any form (normal/safemode) to run the SF Diagnostics Tool, so I cannot post any logs.
Here is what has happened.
Playing a game the computer froze, then went to a BSOD saying "Dumping Physical Memory".
Once the memory was dumped (0-100%) the computer reboots.
After this the computer would not boot up and just rebooted at random while loading windows. This would happen at random points during windows startup, sometimes it would reboot as soon as it started the "Starting Windows" screen, other times I made it to the login screen, and twice I actually made it to the desktop before it BSOD'ed and rebooted agian.
Safe-mode does the same thing, so I couldn't get access that way either.
I suspected bad RAM, ran MEMTEST86+ and found errors on 1 DIMM of RAM.
Pulled the bad DIMM and tried to reboot with the good DIMM of RAM (2gb).
Same issues, so I tried moving the good DIMM to the other RAM slots to make sure it wasn't the slot itself that was bad. Same issue.
-=End of Day 1=- (Haha?)
Popped my Win7 CD into the computer and started it up, thinking I could try and repair windows from the install screen. Nope.jpg
Computer reboots once the loading bar hits 100% (full grey bar) while trying to boot off the CD.
Tried a Linux boot CD (Koppix I believe?) to see if that would work. Nope, same thing! Once the loading screen for the OS appears the computer crashes.
Tried two Virus/Rescue disks (AVG and DrWEB) same issues, once the computer starts to load the OS/scanner it crashes.
Seems anything past loading the BIOs is failing.
At this point I tried booting into Win7 for the hell of it and noticed that the reboot now no longer occurs randomly, but always happens as soon as the "starting windows" logo appears. The BSOD I get is also no longer the "dumping physical memory" message but a 0x7e error (0x0000007e). I've also seen a 0x1 error msg (0x0000001). All "fixes" I've read about for these errors seem to assume you can boot into Windows in the first place, which I can't.
I've tried resetting my CMOS, but that did nothing.
My primary suspects are:
1) RAM
2) Motherboard
3) CPU
4) One hell of an issue with Win7 system files? But then why would the BootCDs fail... ehhh
-=END OF DAY 2=-
What are you're thoughts guys? I'm able to sit in the BIOs with no problems, no reboots, CPU temp sitting stable around 38-40 degrees C.
Quite confused by this point and I'm not sure what or HOW to tell which component is having the issues.
Thanks for reading!