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BSOD Windows 7 ntkrnlpa.exe and ntfs.sys
Hi
Ive been working on a friends pc on and off for a couple of months. It was making really loud whining sounds, a bit like a dial up modem used to. A few BSODs here and there. I think it originated with bad graphics card drivers. He has a RADEON HD 5770 card. He didnt have a Win 7 disc, so I downloaded one from digital river but it wouldnt take it. Kept crashing during a transferring files stage. Spent hours trawling the web, found a developer who had the same issue, ran some windows system file fix tool and it repaired windows.
Graphics card and all other drivers are ok (i think!) and the sound has gone. But, its had a few BSODs recently. My mate isnt at the pc when it happens, he just comes back, and when he wakes his machine it says System has recovered from a serious error, or words to that effect.
Ive run bleuscreenviewer and since the reinstall of windows, the first 2 BSODs show ntfs.sys as driver causing it. 3rd one was ntkrnlpa.exe.
Ive been working on it today, and after waiting all day for scans etc to finish, ive registered here as this was on of the better forums ive visited for these issues, and im just looking for a heads up as to where to look to fix this. not bothered if its new hardware, drivers, whaetevr, i just need to be confident it will stay fixed. not forever, just fixed from the current cause of BSODs.
I ran memtest for 6 full passes, took 6 hours. no errors.
Ive run sfc /scannow - no errors
I turned on verifier.exe and while this was on, each time i plugged in a usb stick, it BSODs. I dont think im worried about these most recent 2 BSODs if having verifier on caused them.
Ive also run a check disk, didnt notice any errors, but if you need to find a log file or something, let me know.
Ive had a quick look at what to do before posting a BSOD thread, and done option 1 and 2 and attached the results.
Any help appreciated.
Cheers