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Various random BSODs w/ different causes, booting difficulties, etc
Hello there guys, from the thread title you can already guess my issue is not simple. My computer is about four years old, and I use it intensively, so obviously sooner or later this would lead to issues.
For the past two weeks, I have been getting BSODs randomly, at first the cause was ndis.sys, which was caused by DAEMON TOOLS LITE. I uninstalled that and that specific BSOD was gone, but later, at random moments during gameplay I was getting strange "static-like" screens followed by BSODs, apparently caused by graphics driver. I have uninstalled the graphics driver and reinstalled it multiple times, apparently the BSODs stopped, but they came back and occasionally happen.
Yesterday it happened again, but then worse stuff started to happen. BlueScreenView points ntoskrnl.exe (BAD_POOL_HEADER) as cause for the most recent Blue Screens, and Windows started having boot difficulties, entering reboot loops (disabling auto-reboot results in an error). I have tried multiple things while in Safe Mode, HOWEVER sometimes I got a different BSOD even while in safe mode (the error was SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION, as you can see in the minidump file). The recovery console doesn't work, triggering some kind of hard drive error. Today it has been VERY difficult to start Windows after a BSOD, I wasn't even being given the option to boot into safe mode, did various full shutdowns plugging the power cable off, and after multiple tries Windows just started normally.
I have a lot of stuff on my hard drive that I don't want to lose, and the amount of data is too big, which means formatting is not the best option here. I would really like to do a repair install, however my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 has SP1 installed, and my installation disk does not have SP1. I have tried to uninstall SP1 through Programs and Resources, but that caused my OS to "freeze". I need to get it uninstalled in order to do a repair install, right?
I have used the SF Diagnostic Tool and collected what I could. I'm currently in Safe Mode and after sometime I'm getting more and more BSODs and exception errors were happening. I'm attaching that data to this post. I also took two photos with my smartphone I was not able to transfer because Zune is not working in Safe Mode. I can try upload them later.
If I had to bet, I'd say my hard drive is screwed. But if it's salvageable, I would do anything to extend its life a little bit more :P
Thanks!
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EDIT: List of repair tasks performed:
- Uninstalled graphics card driver clearing all registry keys and files associated with it, reinstalled it, repeated this process multiple times (currently the driver is NOT INSTALLED);
- Uninstalled the Catalyst Control Center (currently NOT INSTALLED);
- Performed complete power-draining shutdowns multiple times;
- Ran chkdsk (not through command prompt, will attempt chkdsk /f later)
- Tried to uninstall SP1 in order to perform repair install (unsuccessful, crashed while uninstalled through Control Panel, and resulted in an error while trying through elevated command prompt).
- Attempted using Recovery Console (unsuccessful, causes a BSOD or disk read error);
- Currently unable to boot outside of Safe Mode, BSODs ocurring randomly while in Safe Mode.
- Noticed motherboard drivers are out of date, I haven't messed with this yet because i'm not sure the issue is related to this.
Last edited by snipermaws; 08 May 2014 at 12:07. Reason: Adding new information to main post