Hi all, I can't be more specific as far as the title is concerned, for the simple reason that I can't get my PC to boot,,, thus can't upload dump files and give error number as suggested. I'll try nevertheless describe the symptoms as acurately as possible and recover dump files by connecting the disk to another computer. So there we go: a few days ago I installed Win 7 Home Premium on a brand new platform. The config is the following:
CPU: FX-4100 MB : Asus M5A78L/USB3
Mem: OCZ 4096MB 1600MHz Reaper LV CL8 (2x2048)
PSU: Zalman 500-ST 80 (PSU specs here ::: Zalman, leading the world of Quiet Computing Solutions :::)
Gfx: Evga Gtx 550 Ti
HDD:500GB Samsung HD502HJ
Sound: On-board Realtek
LAN: On-board Realtek
All good so far, apart from the fact that soon after the fresh install I got the 1st BSOD. I updated the MB Bios as the latest one was supposed to improve stability. No change, random BSODs again. In the meantime I installed ATIH 2012, and having read numerous posts about its bugginess and faulty drivers, I thought I had found the culprit, as having run the "Who crashed" app it pointed me to some ATIH driver, namely tdrpman.sys. I uninstalled ATIH, ran their cleanup utility, but there were still residues on my computer.
So I decided to reformat the freshly installed system, this time without ATIH. "Normal" format was not sufficient, I had to do a "full" format from command line to be able to start reinstalling windows. One weird thing though: after finishing the format, I pressed enter to confirm that I don't want to name the volume at that point, and immediately after that I got blue screen, computer rebooted, but I could proceed with Windows installation. I installed all the Windows Update patches, chipset, LAN, audio and video drivers, MSE and a couple of programmes.
It was ok for some time (1 day maybe) until I got another BSOD. I started thinking this could be hardware related, so I checked memories with memtest - 5 hours test showed no errors. Checking HDD neither, HDD Scan reported no bad sectors. CPU and mems tested again with OCCT, without any issues or crashes. Temperatures were a little to high maybe, but during normal operation they never go above 40-45. Disks around 30max and GPU 50-60. App crashes happen without any visible pattern. Nvidia drivers (once only though), skype, firefox, IE, windows explorer, recently it crashed starcraft and as a result install files got corrupted, which couldn't be repaired by blizzard tool. Same happend to files already on the hard drive, when I tried to open some installs I had downloaded previously, they would report that they were corrupted - this is the case of Avira, which I had to download 5 or 6 times (thinking this could be MSE issue and wanting to try another AV).
Finally, after reading some posts here, I started driver verifier, chose standard mode and set it to check all the drivers on the computer. It prompted me to reboot in order to save the changes, and, after the reboot, Windows wouldn't even get to the logon screen, but BSOD just before. It wouldn't even boot into safe mode, giving a message about RPC not being available, the screen would stay black with safe mode headers in the corners and that's it.
So there it is, sorry not to be able to attach dumps at this point, but as you've just read above, at this point I'm not able to boot the PC. Hopefully you can already come up with some ideas, as I've totally ran out of them.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and sorry for posting in a wrong section, could I ask a mod please to move it to the appropriate section? Thanks!
CPU: FX-4100 MB : Asus M5A78L/USB3
Mem: OCZ 4096MB 1600MHz Reaper LV CL8 (2x2048)
PSU: Zalman 500-ST 80 (PSU specs here ::: Zalman, leading the world of Quiet Computing Solutions :::)
Gfx: Evga Gtx 550 Ti
HDD:500GB Samsung HD502HJ
Sound: On-board Realtek
LAN: On-board Realtek
All good so far, apart from the fact that soon after the fresh install I got the 1st BSOD. I updated the MB Bios as the latest one was supposed to improve stability. No change, random BSODs again. In the meantime I installed ATIH 2012, and having read numerous posts about its bugginess and faulty drivers, I thought I had found the culprit, as having run the "Who crashed" app it pointed me to some ATIH driver, namely tdrpman.sys. I uninstalled ATIH, ran their cleanup utility, but there were still residues on my computer.
So I decided to reformat the freshly installed system, this time without ATIH. "Normal" format was not sufficient, I had to do a "full" format from command line to be able to start reinstalling windows. One weird thing though: after finishing the format, I pressed enter to confirm that I don't want to name the volume at that point, and immediately after that I got blue screen, computer rebooted, but I could proceed with Windows installation. I installed all the Windows Update patches, chipset, LAN, audio and video drivers, MSE and a couple of programmes.
It was ok for some time (1 day maybe) until I got another BSOD. I started thinking this could be hardware related, so I checked memories with memtest - 5 hours test showed no errors. Checking HDD neither, HDD Scan reported no bad sectors. CPU and mems tested again with OCCT, without any issues or crashes. Temperatures were a little to high maybe, but during normal operation they never go above 40-45. Disks around 30max and GPU 50-60. App crashes happen without any visible pattern. Nvidia drivers (once only though), skype, firefox, IE, windows explorer, recently it crashed starcraft and as a result install files got corrupted, which couldn't be repaired by blizzard tool. Same happend to files already on the hard drive, when I tried to open some installs I had downloaded previously, they would report that they were corrupted - this is the case of Avira, which I had to download 5 or 6 times (thinking this could be MSE issue and wanting to try another AV).
Finally, after reading some posts here, I started driver verifier, chose standard mode and set it to check all the drivers on the computer. It prompted me to reboot in order to save the changes, and, after the reboot, Windows wouldn't even get to the logon screen, but BSOD just before. It wouldn't even boot into safe mode, giving a message about RPC not being available, the screen would stay black with safe mode headers in the corners and that's it.
So there it is, sorry not to be able to attach dumps at this point, but as you've just read above, at this point I'm not able to boot the PC. Hopefully you can already come up with some ideas, as I've totally ran out of them.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and sorry for posting in a wrong section, could I ask a mod please to move it to the appropriate section? Thanks!
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My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 home Premium 64bitFX-4100OCZ 4096MB 1600MHz Reaper LV CL8 (2x2048)Evga GTX 550 Ti
- OS
- Windows 7 home Premium 64bit
- CPU
- FX-4100
- Motherboard
- ASRock 970 Pro 3
- Memory
- OCZ 4096MB 1600MHz Reaper LV CL8 (2x2048)
- Graphics Card(s)
- Evga GTX 550 Ti
- Sound Card
- integrated realtek
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Benq FP93 G P
- Hard Drives
- 500GB Samsung HD502HJ (System)
Samsung SP2514N 250GB
- PSU
- Zalman ZM500-ST
- Cooling
- Noctua NH-U9B SE2