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Bsod becoming frustrating.
Fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit worked fine for a few weeks then started crashing.
- Crashed while uploading images to web when Firefox was running.
- Crashed when running IE8. (a Windows Media Player error kept popping up although WMP wasn't open?)
- Crashed when writing data to a USB stick in a front port.
- Crashed when writing data to a USB stick in a back port.
- Crashed after changing HDD's (swapped out my current HDD with Home Premium to my old test HDD with Win7 Ultimate RC1 which I had been running since it's release with no problems but RC1 Blue Screened shortly after booting several times.)
- Crashed when installing the latest 9.11 ATI drivers.
- Crashed when using Windows Restore.
- Crashed when downloading from Microsoft.
- Crashed when typing this message.
I've gotten a least 5 different error messages (or more) out of 30-40 crashes within a couple/three weeks.
- BAD POOL HEADER
- PAGE FAULT IN A NONPAGED AREA
- MEMORY MANAGEMENT
- SYSTEM SERVICE EXCEPTION
- IRQL NOT LESS THAN EQUAL (or something like that)
What I've tried:
Removed a recently added 4 port USB 2.0 PCI card.
Updated drivers, although I already had the latest drivers except for the ATI video, running 9.10
Flashed BIOS (successfully)
Ran MEMTEST86+ (4.00) 8x with no errors
Ran Windows Mem Check with no errors
Ran memory 8GB Ram at reduced timings 5-7-7-24
Ran memory 8GB Ram at correct settings 5-5-5-15
Copied my mirror image backup (original install) back to my HDD (wasn't smart enough to save all the minidump files before wiping.)
Still crashed and have a couple of the minidumps now and will attach.
I've removed half of my RAM and waiting to see what happens.
But my question is when Windows Blue Screens is it common to get different error messages or are they usually all the same error? (since I've gotten several different errors)