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BSOD - Stuck in Endless Startup Repair Loop
I had updated my Avira Antivirus on my Windows 7 PC yesterday and the PC has stuck on an endless Startup Repair loop since then. I couldnt get into Safe Mode without getting a BSOD then reboot which I could not use the SF Diagnostic Tool to create a BSOD post. Also, there are times that I could boot to the desktop in Safe Mode but then, the PC BSOD instantly and reboot again.
At the same time, I had tried the startup repair infinite loop recovery on SF and it still couldnt fix the BSOD. Thanks for the rather useful guide though. :)
I had run chkdsk and window's build in memtest tool, and it seemed like there isnt any issue with my hardware. No bad sectors found with chkdsk and a normal memtest results seemed to be fine.
I had also done a System Restore which didnt help the situation.
I tried to disable the BSOD auto reboot and here are the technical information found on the screen:
***STOP: 0x0000007e (0xFFFFFFFFC0000005,0xFFFFF80003A0A000, 0xFFFFF880009A90D8, 0xFFFFF88009A8940)
In addition to that I had also seen errors like BAD_POOL_HEADER and PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA during some of the BSOD reboots.
Could this be a virus or trojan in the system? Or Avira messed up my system's startup? Or an impending HDD/RAM failure?
Information about my PC:
Asus G73JH A2 laptop
Windows 7 Home Premium x64
Intel i7 720QM 1.6GHz
8GB 1333 MHz DDR3
2x Seagate Momentus XT (This hard drive comes with a 4GB SSD for caching. A fairly notorious hard disk as it has quite a few issues surrounding it)
AMD Radeon 5870 Mobility 1GB
I do apologise that the information that i have provided isnt sufficient but I do appreciate if anyone could assist me in solving this issue. I have other PC lying around which can be used to extract other data if needed.
Last edited by Cheesenium; 29 Jul 2013 at 22:37. Reason: Adding more information