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Getting MULTIPL BSODS on Windows startup, then the PC acts normal
I've been getting reoccurring BSODS for the past couple of weeks almost every time the PC is booted up. It will enter windows, then either get a BSOD after about 2-3 minutes or freeze up. This will happen once or twice, and afterwards the PC will go on working for hours on end normally. Even though it is ancient, it sill browses the web, plays games etc without fault, even after the BSODS have started to appear. I haven't encountered any which i could strictly attribute to running a specific application which might cause strain on the hardware.
The BSODS are very varied - cache manager, kmode exception not handled, bad pool header, system service exception, bad pool caller, unexpected kernel mode trap.
It's been going on for a couple of weeks with varying frequency. I'd get one or two for a week straight, then none four days in a row, then a couple per day again. All of the descriptions I've read about these BSODS suggest that the culprit might be a device driver that's acting up, but I haven't managed to find out what that might be.It's gotten worse yesterda and today, and would even freeze up during windows bootup, while the bios was checking the memory or going through the disk drives.
It happens at random, always when I start the PC and boot into windows. Safe mode doesn't seem to be affected, but since it sometimes doesn't crash straight away when i go into windows normally, I can't be 100% sure.
I ran memtest on the memory and everything was fine
I ran chkdsk /r. It found two small bad sectors, but it didn't fix the problem
I wanted to do a system restore, but had no points prior to when this started happening.
I've installed bluescreenviewer to see what the BSODS were about, and each time it says that ntoskrnl.exe is at fault, but that's obviously too vague.
Any help would be appreciated as I'm slowly but surely losing my mind over this.
EDIT: I just saw that horrible title, I'd change it if I could. My apologies.