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BSODs on Startup / Startup Failures / Comp Starts Every Other Time
Hi sevenforums,
I have a three year old custom built desktop. Specs are as follows:
Operating System
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 3770K @ 3.50GHz
RAM
32.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 927MHz (10-11-10-27)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P8Z77-V DELUXE (LGA1155)
Graphics
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 (EVGA)
Storage
2794GB Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN166 (SATA) 94 °F
3726GB Western Digital WDC WD4003FZEX-00Z4SA0 (SATA) 99 °F
223GB INTEL SS DSC2CW240A3 SCSI Disk Device (SSD)
Optical Drives
ASUS BC-12B1ST
Audio
ASUS XONAR PHOEBUS Audio Device
I was getting the odd "Page fault in non-paged area" BSOD about once a month. I also had another issue where the computer would hang on startups after the windows splash to a black screen with only my mouse cursor. This would cause me to hard reset. Due to Occam's razor I attributed both the BSODs and the inability for my computer to load on every other startup to the same error.
I googled this issue and noticed it was related to messed up ram. This prompted me to run memtest86 last week. Memtest86 returned dozens of errors after going through 4 passes. Because of this I RMA'd the RAM.
Today I installed the new RAM. I have not seen a "page fault in non paged area" bsod as of yet, but they usually took time to show up (>1 week of computer usage).
After installing the new RAM, I began having numerous startup issues and a new blue screen.
The computer began hanging at the "welcome" screen, again only on every other startup. On another startup I received a 0x00000C5 BSOD immediately after putting in my login credentials. On yet another startup, I got hungup to a black screen prior to entering my credentials. Finally, on another startup, I entered into my desktop page, however, I was unable to open anything such as computer, control panel, etc. I had to hard reset from this state again. When I would open something such as control panel I would receive an error message stating application can not be opened.
With each of these screwed up startups, I had one clean normal startup in between which has only puzzled me even more.
Starting up to safe mode boots properly. I have disabled all startup programs via msconfig, but the problems persisted.
I uninstalled Asus AI Suite II today, however it does not appear to have changed anything.
I attempted to run windows startup repair, but it stated it did not find errors to repair. There are no restore points created whatsoever, even though I have system protection set to "on" for local disk C. I created one now, but this restore point would have the current issues within it.
I will be running memtest86 again tonight to verify my RMA ram is fine.
Any help is greatly appreciated. I have attached my DM Log.