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BSOD 0x0000001a + Others, when using Chrome or at random
Hi guys,
Having some pretty serious issues with my PC that started about 2 or 3 days ago. Usually when I leave my house I put my PC into sleep mode, when I came back home (the day everything started to go haywire) I noticed the computer was off, and of course when I turn it on I was asked if I wanted to start in safe mode or repair due to the fact that windows was shut down improperly. I chose to start normally since this has happened before but never really caused an issue. When I logged on I noticed that Chrome would not run after trying to click the icon several times. I then decided to open other programs which opened without any problems, then went back to Chrome. Chrome finally opens but all extensions crashed immediately and then Chrome finally crashed. After trying to open Chrome again I got a blue screen with the 0x0000001a code. I rebooted and went back to stock clocks and again when I opened Chrome it blue screened showing the same code. I looked it up on google and found several threads on this forum and others talking about possible memory failures so I tried to run a memtest (Using both instruction options found here) but no matter what USB drive I use, or USB port, memtest WILL NOT run. Even if I force to boot from USB while disabling all other boot options in BIOS, I just end up right back into my bios. I do not have a CD drive for this computer so thats not really an option.
My next step was to try to get the dump files using the instructions found here, however, both options gave me different blue screen codes before finishing their jobs.
That being said, I think I managed to get the minidump and fulldump files manually after each BSOD. I'm just not 100% sure they are the right files or what other information you guys would need to help me out so I took a screen shot of what the files look like, if someone could tell me if they are the correct files then I'll upload them immediately.
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I would like to add, when you first boot and log on to the computer everything seems to run fine for a while as long as you don't open Chrome or EA's Origin. After a while of poking around, Explore may crash prompting Windows to ask if you want to start it again, or you could just end up with a BSOD. Either way at some point you'll end up with a BSOD with the code 0x0000001a. The only times I have gotten different codes is when I tried to pull the dump files using the instructions found here.
I'm so frustrated with trying to figure out whats wrong that I almost just reformatted my computer but I realized that would probably accomplish nothing. I don't understand why I can't run memtest though since I'm following the instructions to the T. Could it be that my Mobo is fried instead of the ram?