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several BSOD after startup, tried to fix myself, diagnostic attached
Hello! Thanks for reading through my post :)
So over the last 6 weeks, I have been getting the blue screen a several minutes after start-up. Last week it happened a couple of days in a row. I had a tech come and to my surprise he just ran a virus scan and disabled some start-up items. Next day I had blue screen again and then finally got blue screen with a sharp noise and immediate shut down.
Not knowing what to do....I did the following:
Bought a second HD and installed it. Cloned C Drive.
Was going to do a fresh install but of course had no disks. Got ISO file from Microsoft and burned to disk.
When I rebooted with disk it said there was something wrong with startup and asked if I wanted to recover windows? Anyways, I said yes.
Now when I reboot, I get a Boot Menu each time. Choice between Windows 7 or Windows 7 Home Premium (recovered) - which only works with the installation CD. So far the Windows 7 is working. I am not sure what I did though or why I am getting Boot Menu each time?
My next question is, I have not had the blue screen for two days, but how do I know if I have resolved the problem? What do I need to do next?
Because I didn't know what to do, I did all the things I know how to do hoping one of them was the right thing. Here is a list of what I did:
Updated and ran all anti-virus tools: AVG free, Spybot, Malaware Bytes
Updated drivers from Manufacturer's website
Checked BIOS, there is one update but it's to do with CPU so I just left it as is
Ran a memory check
Checked Memory Dump Configuration - it's set to kernel dump (I have 6GB memory)
Ran Error Checking and Defragged HD
Uninstalled unnecessary programs and ran Disk Clean-Up
I took pictures of a few of my bluescreens but I keep getting an internal server error message (500) when I try to attach them to this post. If you think they would be helpful then I will try again.
Thanks!