BSOD with all parameters

[johnyb98]

Good evening.

I have a Windows 7 system, that cannot reach desktop.
After the Windows 7 flag is created from the four colors coming from depth, then a blank black screen as it is normal, and then, as I wait for the desktop, here comes the hot restart. And this cycle restart again, and again, and again, etc. etc.

System has two identical WD SATA 500GB each, in a RAID 1 row (mirroring).

Have tried from F8 make the repair:no result
Have tried chkdsk /r:no result

Error on BSOD is:
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
0x000000ED (0xFFFFFA8004 98DCD0, 0xFFFFFFFFC00000C0, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)

Could you please help me?

Thank you!

 

[BorisTheAnimal]

Hi there johny.

I would recommend that you run memtest86+:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105647-ram-test-memtest86.html

It seems that it might help you resolve the issue!

*Update

Found this:

AMI BIOS:
1 beep - System boot successfull
*1beep - Refresh failure - (NO VIDEO) memory refresh failure (bad memory)
2 beeps - Parity error - bad memory

So you will definitely have to check the ram.

Cheerio /Boris

 

[johnyb98]

You are totally right, Boris. In this desktop, the last six months, many times NO VIDEO in screen at start up. So, tried with turn on and off screen, to have image. I thought of all possibilities:
screen itself
screen cable
VGA to DVI adapter
VGA card

But never thought of RAM. If I have understood well enough, maybe a failure RAM is the NO VIDEO result. Right?

So, now I have started checking RAM. And I will upload results when finish.
Something strange, now. Something that I have never seen in other Memtest86+ checking I have made before is as follows:when Memtest86+ starts, I hear two short beeps:beep-beep. But, no errors in error column. Maybe because it has two modules A-DATA and two Transcened. Each one of 1024MB. So, 4GB of total RAM.
What about all that?

Thanks!

 

[Pauly]

An 0xED BSOD as you mention is an unmountable boot volume which can be very problematic to diagnose as you cannot access windows to retrieve dump/diagnostic files, one of our top BSOD guys has done a thread for just this type of scenario have a read through it will give you some ideas of things you can do/things to try but as you are running a raid setup that will complicate things

http://www.sevenforums.com/crash-lo...shooting-stop-0x7b-stop-0xed.html#post3192467

 

[BorisTheAnimal]

Well johny just like Pauly said because of that you cannot get into Windows will make solving this problem more tedious than normally.

Would you be able to get some information on your hardware? Like if we can get the motherboard model we can check the QVL if any of your sticks are actually supported, if either of them aren't well then.

 

[johnyb98]

Well, motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA-890XA-UD3.

 

[BorisTheAnimal]

Well, motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA-890XA-UD3.

Have you tried taking out both Transcend sticks and vice versa and try booting?

 

[johnyb98]

No. I haven't. Do you suggest so? Do you believe this could solve 0xED problem?

I believe that, even if Transcened or A-DATA RAM is defective, even by letting on motherboard only healthy modules, is too late. Because now, some or many necessary Windows boot files are destroyed. Something that will not be fixed with just healthy modules on motherboard.

What do you think about that?

 

[BorisTheAnimal]

Well I would then suggest that you do option number 6 in the thread that Pauly mentioned.

My thinking of the memory was just a thought.

Like I said without anything to go on this problem could be caused by really whatever.

 

[Pauly]

I would start with a HDD diagnostic check using Seagate seatools software or similar, you can make a bootable flash drive to run it off so windows will not come into it.
If drive checks out ok then you can start looking at boot files etc

 

[johnyb98]

Although two RAID disks are WD, Seatools will truly show if there is a problem on them (one or both)?

 

[axe0]

You can use SeaTools on every hard drive, but SeaTools can repair Seagate and Maxtor brand hard drives only.

 

[johnyb98]

Here are the results of HDDs scanning.

With SeaTools, one drive is 100% healthy. In the other one, SeaTools finds 15 errors, and in 88% scanning stops. Not completed. HDD is in very bad condition.
The same (not completed scan and very bad condition drive) is proove from the HD Tune scan I also made.

Good one drive pictures and log files:

View attachment 380016

HD Tune Pro: WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA Error Scan

Scanned data : 499 gB
Damaged Blocks : 0.0 %

HD Tune Pro: WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA Health

ID                              Current  Worst    ThresholdData     Status   
(01) Raw Read Error Rate        189      187      51       234352   ok       
(03) Spin Up Time               178      177      21       6091     ok       
(04) Start/Stop Count           96       96       0        4616     ok       
(05) Reallocated Sector Count   200      200      140      0        ok       
(07) Seek Error Rate            100      253      51       0        ok       
(09) Power On Hours Count       79       79       0        15821    ok       
(0A) Spin Retry Count           100      100      51       0        ok       
(0B) Calibration Retry Count    100      100      51       0        ok       
(0C) Power Cycle Count          96       96       0        4597     ok       
(C0) Unsafe Shutdown Count      200      200      0        417      ok       
(C1) Load Cycle Count           199      199      0        4627     ok       
(C2) Temperature                106      96       0        44       ok       
(C4) Reallocated Event Count    200      200      0        0        ok       
(C5) Current Pending Sector     200      200      0        0        ok       
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable      200      200      0        0        ok       
(C7) Interface CRC Error Count  200      200      0        0        ok       
(C8) Write Error Rate           200      200      51       0        ok       

Health Status         : ok

Bad one drive pictures and log files:


View attachment 380017

HD Tune Pro: WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA Error Scan

Scanned data : 498 gB
Damaged Blocks : 0.4 %
Elapsed Time : 2:14:20
1 Error at 278367 MB (LBA 570096425)
2 Error at 279599 MB (LBA 572619483)
3 Error at 284530 MB (LBA 582719446)
4 Error at 295793 MB (LBA 605784343)
5 Error at 377282 MB (LBA 772674728)
6 Error at 397868 MB (LBA 814834041)
7 Error at 402548 MB (LBA 824419905)
8 Error at 402549 MB (LBA 824420673)
9 Error at 402549 MB (LBA 824420801)
10 Error at 402549 MB (LBA 824420929)

HD Tune Pro: WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA Health

ID                              Current  Worst    ThresholdData     Status   
(01) Raw Read Error Rate        200      200      51       0        ok       
(03) Spin Up Time               183      181      21       5808     ok       
(04) Start/Stop Count           87       87       0        13461    ok       
(05) Reallocated Sector Count   200      200      140      0        ok       
(07) Seek Error Rate            200      187      51       0        ok       
(09) Power On Hours Count       79       79       0        15580    ok       
(0A) Spin Retry Count           100      100      51       0        ok       
(0B) Calibration Retry Count    100      100      51       0        ok       
(0C) Power Cycle Count          96       96       0        4592     ok       
(C0) Unsafe Shutdown Count      199      199      0        837      ok       
(C1) Load Cycle Count           196      196      0        13940    ok       
(C2) Temperature                103      97       0        47       ok       
(C4) Reallocated Event Count    200      200      0        0        ok       
(C5) Current Pending Sector     200      200      0        15       warning  
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable      200      200      0        15       ok       
(C7) Interface CRC Error Count  200      200      0        0        ok       
(C8) Write Error Rate           200      200      51       0        ok       

Health Status         : warning

As you can see in the second picture of damaged drive (HD Tune), scanning cannot be completed, as in SeaTools.

After all that, I have a couple of questions:

a. I have decided to make a clean Windows install in just one SATA drive. No RAID. In order to do so, I have to enter RAID BIOS, delete RAID 0, and then proceed to the one drive installation?

b. If answer to a. is Yes, in order to delete RAID 0, should the 2 RAID drives be connected, or it can be deleted without them on system?

c. For one SATA drive Windows installation, what setting would you beter suggest in BIOS (AHCI, SATA, IDE/SATA in some BIOSes)?

 

[Pauly]

Don't think it will make much difference how you disable it you could delete raid setup or just disable raid controller
If necessary you could use diskpart to clean the disk after giving you a blank drive to start from

Optimum BIOS setting for single disk would be AHCI - this must be done before installing windows as changing after is very problematic and often leaves machine unbootable