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Random BSODs
Hi all
I apologize for the very generic title, however these really have been random with no discernible cause.
PC Details:
MSI GT70 0ND Laptop
i7 3610QM
16GB RAM (it's speced with 12GB, I added another 4GB)
nVidia GTX 675M
120GB SSD (2x60GB in RAID) + 700GB HDD
Running wonderfully for about 2 months, last week or so I've had BSODs
BSOD Details:
Like I said, they are random, the only consistent one I can reproduce is after the laptop has been turned off (or put in sleep mode) for at least half an hour. When I boot up it gets past the BIOS, shows the beginning of the Windows animation, then immediately BSODs. This happens between one and 4 times (even booting into Safe Mode or Recovery causes this) and then it boots normally.
This got me thinking it might be something fan or heat detection related as obviously the laptop is still cold when this happens, the one experiment I tried was 'cold' booting, going directly into the BIOS, waiting 10 minutes, then rebooting and there were no BSODs during boot up, probably dumb luck, but mentioning it here regardless.
Other times it seems completely random, playing Wow/GW2, doing work in NetBeans/Office/etc, even just idling.
What I've done so far with no success:
- Removed the extra RAM
- Ran Memtest with and without the extra RAM (no errors)
- Uninstalled VGA/Network/Soundcard drivers
- Updated all drivers available on MSI's website
- Updated the VGA drivers from nVidia's website (this was after trying the latest from MSI's website)
- Updated the laptop firmware and BIOS from MSI's website
- Done a power cycle on the laptop (left battery out for an hour)
- Recalibrated the battery (via a tool from MSI)
I also downloaded WinDbg and had a look at some of the dump files, but I simply don't have the expertise to determine what they are saying.
Reinstalling Windows is my next step, but having discovered this site and the number of successful solves here, I thought I'd try my luck here first :)
Thanks in advance for any help.
Supes