BSOD After Startup

[lotor]

The last 2 days my computer which has a solidstate boot drive has been hanging at boot, then once windows loads I have 2-3 mins of use until BSOD. I have a suspicion that my video card may be going wonky but need help making sure before I replace.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Lotor load Speccy as we need to see temps etc http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download

Plus just how old is this machine and it might be an idea to do this http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/86648-psu-jump-start.html

on the 12v rails the volts must be between 11.4 and 12.6v just test all leads in any case.

Temps first though.

 

[lotor]

The machine is about 2 years old. Since I installed the SSD about a year ago my boot time was 23 seconds, the last few days it takes about 45-1 min to get to a usable state. I had the GUI boot disabled so it was just like 8 teal hash marks in the upper left corner of the screen when a normal PC would have the windows loading screen. The last few days I get a highly scrambled bar extending from those teal hash marks until the pc fully boots, then a random BSOD. but it no BSOD I can use the PC for hours on end with no issue.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Lotor mate the temps look fine but try reseating the card and the RAM sticks and while you are at it check out to the volts on the PSU .
(A little tinker of mine is to clean he slots as well see at bottom)

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/86648-psu-jump-start.html the important one the 12v rail/s should be between 11.4v (min) and 12.6v (max) remember though correct volts does not mean correct current.

However I think personally the finger is pointing at that card mate

Slots:
Now as for the slots to clean them use astrip of old credit card about 1/2 inch wide nip the corners off one end - preferably round them off hold apiece of thin lint free cloth over the end dab on some form of alcohol - isopropyl alcohol (what we swab the skin with before an injection) is good and GENTLY swipe along the slots.

This can also be done for the GPU slot/s.

Now it might be an idea to run this
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

By nay chance you haven't been running a defrag on that drive?? as it and a chkdsk also are no no's

 

[lotor]

Sorry about the delayed response (daughter got sick so was taking care of her). I ended up doing the re-seating video card/RAM which stopped the BSOD.

As to the long boot time, I turned GUI boot back on which got rid of the weird colored line & showed me that check disk was trying to run on my D drive every time I booted. This HD is a clone of another HD that we have locked up, something must have gone screwy with the cloning process because it showed a bunch of the picture files that check disk couldn't fix. I deleted those files & have not had a boot issue since.