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Fresh Win 7 Install, random BSODs (driver irql not < or = and others)
Hi, I've recently rebuilt my PC and it's driving me crazy with random BSODs all the time. I'm not playing games or doing anything demanding. It crashes when I'm just surfing the web and sometimes even when I'm in the other room and the PC is in sleep mode. Here are the circumstances.
It's a homebuilt PC (I filled in my system specs). It used to use an IDE hard drive, the onboard graphics, and Win XP, but was really slow, but it wasn't suffering from BSODs. I wanted an improvement, so I bought a SATA SSD hard drive, a PCI-Express video card, and Win 7 Home Premium 32 bit.
I installed a fresh install of Win 7 onto the SSD, installed the video card, and soon started having BSOD issues. I thought maybe the Windows install was corrupt, so I reformated and reinstalled but had the same trouble. I thought it was the SSD, so I tried reinstalling Windows on a traditional (disk based) SATA hard drive and had the same problem. I flashed my bios to the latest version and still have the same problem. I removed the video card and it seemed to stop. I blamed the Nvidia GeForce 210 based video card, so I replaced it with the Radeon HD5450 based one listed in my specs, but I still have the same problem. I need the dedicated video card to have dual monitors, otherwise I don't need a powerful graphics card. I saw another thread that recommended running Memtest software, which I ran through several cycles with no memory errors. I've run sfc/scannow with no errors. I'm thinking of buying a USB based video adapter to allow for dual monitors, but I'm tired of part swapping, so I'm turning to this forum for help.
I've attached the output from SF Diagnostic Tool. I would be incredibly grateful if anyone can help me diagnose this issue. After all the money and time I've spent, I'm wishing I would've just bought a damn dell. Thanks, -Anthony