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Persistent BSOD After Updating Drivers
Dell Inspiron 1545
Windows 7 Home Premium x64
Intel Celeron CPU 900
2GB Ram
This is my first time dealing with BSOD that I can recall and am incredibly out of my depths, so any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Several hours ago, I updated 3 drivers and rebooted. I first noticed that any active windows would repeatedly deselect and then reselect. Within 10-15 minutes of logging in, the laptop blue screened and rebooted. This happened every single time I booted up and logged in normally. If I try to run programs, it blue screens within a minute or two of opening.
I tried system restore 3 times and each time failed (0x800703f9 error - I expect this is a separate issue).
I ran windows' memory check and had no problems.
I booted up in safe mode (and am in safe mode now) without any problems. I rolled back all 3 drivers I updated and tried booting up normally. The active window issue was gone, but the BSOD persisted.
I then ran an sfc scan in safe mode (tried out of safe mode and it blue screened). It informed me that there were problems, but not all could be fixed.
I'm not entirely sure what else to do. I do not have a minidump, unfortunately, because I didn't have it set to do so. I've tried setting it to do so in safe mode, but the settings don't seem to be taking? And if I try in normal mode, it will blue screen before I can. So I'm not sure what to do about that either.
Any and all help with this would be appreciated, thank you.