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CONSTANT blue screens of death
Yes, I've read the BSOD posting instructions several times. However, I a) still do t understand how to create a zip full of the mythological dump info and b) and typing this on my phone as my computer is at this very moment on the 16th or so (I kid you not :/) BSOD of the evening. I have taken a photo of most of today's BSODs, but they are stuck on my phone for the time being. The error messages have ranged from none (basically a generic BSOD screen, no error given and the error code is just 000...), to an ntfs.sys one (a few times) and a system_service_exception one. When I switch on the computer, I currently get 'greeted' by the start windows normally or the startup repair thing. Lets go through start windows normally first:
1) it sits on the "Starting Windows" screen, flag never appears
2) flag appears, halfway through the 4 colours joining, BSOD.
3) gets to login screen and then instant BSOD, or, if I'm uber-lucky, it'll even go to the desktop... And then BSOD.
So, now the startup repair options:
1) it loads it, then while restoring to a restore point from a month ago, BSOD.
There are other occurecnces, but I can't remember offhand. Lets just say none of them have been any use, and it's been a long evening.
The computer is a 2010 HP Pavilion tower, I've had it less than 6 months (after an HP gold renew). I have un-tempted to shove any other hardware in it, so all the innards are as it was shipped, nothing more, nothing less. The HP recovery diagnostics give everything a clean bill of health, as has the HP diagnostic program that has run every once in a while since first using the computer. I managed to run the windows memory diagnostics somehow this evening and it stopped at around 26% saying it had found an error and that I should contact the system manufacturer. The one time chkdsk actually ran this evening it said the HDD was fine.
What I WANT to do is wiped the HDD and start afresh. However, I can't do that until I manage to buy the 2TB internal drive I need as there is a large amount of irreplacable data on this HDD and there's only so many blank DVDs and empty (much smaller) HDDs lying around. I am currently reinstalling windows 7 on a Frankenstein's monster that I spent the last hour compiling from 3 knackered computers sitting in my cupboard waiting to be servers (I'm doing this in the hope that I can transfer some data onto an old 200GB IDE HDD painfully transferring GB by GB over on a flash drive).
So, basically, I'm clearly screwed. I cannot lose the data on the tower's HDD, yet I can't even turn the d*mn thing on without it dying.
Again, sorry for the lack of BSOD visual info or any dump file, but I couldn't even load a Linux live cd - mint came up with file system absence issues and fedora kernel panicked after about 10 minutes.
I reseated the GPU, tuner card and moved the three sticks of RAM from slot 1,2 + 3 down to 2, 3 + 4. I am at my wits end and getting incredibly stressed and worked up about it all
I have been experiencing the BSODs for quite some time (well, fairly frequent BSODsover the past few months, worse over the week just passed, even worse over the weekend just gone, and now completely intollerable this week so far)