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BSOD (registry error) after check disk, after memory failure
What a mess...
I came to my PC this morning only to find it restarting after the BIOS continuously. I peeked in the case and the DRAM LED was lit on my ASUS mb. I pulled one of the memory sticks out, restarted, and it booted right into windows (I'm running win 7 x64 ultimate). I wanted to run memtest86 to check the rest of my memory, so I booted that from a flash drive, test was OK. When I booted from the flash drive, it changed my boot order and disabled my RAID1 for some reason, so it booted to one of the RAID drives (except now it wasn't in raid, it was just an IDE drive). When it got into Windows it did all the 'installing new hardware' stuff on my hard drives. But it was running fine. I knew what happened, so I shut down, went into the BIOS and put the RAID back on, and booted back into Windows. It booted fine, except that there was a red X on my internet connection icon in the tray (even though I could get to web sites just fine). Network control center said the "dependency service or group failed to start". A few seconds later, a msg pops up saying the firewall is off and should be turned on. It ran stable at this point, had it on for about an hour.
Then to fix the red X thing, I read that maybe I should try a check disk. So i went to do it in windows on my C drive and it said I couldn't do it while the drive is active or whatever, so it would schedule it for the next startup. Sure enough it ran, found some problems, and finished. Now when it gets into windows, I still have the red X, but after about a minute it blue screens me with "REGISTRY_ERROR" and code 51.
I can go into safe mode w/ networking just fine for unlimited time. But anytime I go into real windows I get the bsod.
I tried to do a system restore that was made a few days ago, but it never successfully finishes. I read that the 'network location awareness' svc needs to be on (which it isn't), and when I try to start it, I get an error. From the event viewer "The Network Location Awareness service terminated with service-specific error %%-1073741288".
Just hope I don't need to reinstall the o/s to fix this.
Thanks.