Dell 1558 BSOD everyday >.< no dumps?

[Jammydodge]

Hey mate

I've just had a thought dell came out and replaced the mobo and ram and didnt run a repair on windows or anything is it possible i may need to run a repair? as im only down to one error now and thats the the kernal inpage data error =o

Thanks,
Jammy

p.s thanks for your help so far is there anyway I can make a donation to yourself?

 

[Jonathan_King]

No way to donate, except recommend us to others you know with computer problems. We are a volunteer forum, and while the thought is greatly appreciated, it wouldn't be right to accept.

Here is a tutorial for doing a repair install: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html

You might want to test the new RAM. Even brand new RAM is faulty sometimes.

See this tutorial: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105647-ram-test-memtest86.html

 

[fireberd]

Dell has diagnostics on most PC's, accessed by F12 at power on. Run a complete diagnostic and see if it turns up anything. Actuall run the full diagnostics more than once.

We have seen an occasional bad disk image load on new PC's too. A complete reinstall using the Dell recovery partiton seems to fix that too. F8 at power on (for Win7/Vista systems) will access the recovery partition.

 

[Jammydodge]

awesome thnaks very much guys and Jonathan your the nicest tech guys I know then =O your even more helpful than dell tech support which costs me tons of money to get no help at all xD

 

[Jammydodge]

Hey guys

Yeh did the dell diagnostics and nothing =O so might try doing that reimaging

 

[Jammydodge]

hey guys ran memtest still bsod

 

[Jonathan_King]

Did you run Memtest for 7 passes? Did you receive any errors? Did you use Memtest86, as in the tutorial, or some other program?

 

[Jammydodge]

no i ran the dell memtest thing in the bios startup its like a diagnostic thing ill run memtest for 7 passes tonight and no errors came up on the dell memtest

 

[Jammydodge]

Hey guys just to keep you updated I ran the dell memtest and it showed no errors I ran it with every test it had I think the ram is ok

 

[Jonathan_King]

Wait, if they did a motherboard chance, you may need to do a clean install. See this tutorial: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/20146-custom-install-windows-7-a.html

Also, do you have another video card you can try? Perhaps borrow one from a friend or rob one off another computer.

 

[Jammydodge]

:O just found this How to fix Stop:0×000000F4 blue screen error in Windows

what you think?

 

[Jonathan_King]

:O just found this How to fix Stop:0×000000F4 blue screen error in Windows

what you think?

I am skeptical of any article that shows how to fix a particular bluescreen, because there are so many causes for each one.

That may have worked for him, but I have seen F4 BSODs caused by registry cleaners, viruses, and bad hardware.

I am curious about it though. The author mentioned that he had replaced the motherboard to no avail. The CMOS battery is located on the motherboard, so any issues with it, such as a low battery or poor contact, would have been resolved as well.

Carry on with the reinstall though, that may do the trick.

 

[Jammydodge]

Okie dokie ill back up my stuff and get that done thanks man your a legend ill let you know it goes =)

 

[Jammydodge]

reinstalled windows got another bsod after about 18 hours started playing wow and got one :O the sound started to freeze on wow but youtube in firefox was working fine and then firefox started not responding and then after about 30 seconds came back and was able to play video and then it BSOD and restarted still no dumps! >.<! damn u dell! lol

 

[Jonathan_King]

I'm just going to officially rule out all software causes. This is hardware if I have ever seen a hardware BSOD!

Do this CPU test: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/100352-cpu-stress-test-prime95.html

Watch Speedfan at the time, and let us know the results of both Speedfan and Prime95.

 

[Jammydodge]

hey buddy my cpu temp is going up to 90c :O started at like 76

 

[Jammydodge]

yeh not good it went to about 96 and i stopped it didnt want it to blow up xD haha

EDIT: ok redid it for 10 minutes stayed stable when left idle at 90c

 

[Jonathan_King]

Time to work on your heat issue.

First, clean out all dust from your heat vents. A can of compressed air is the tool of choice.

You may invest in a cooling pad as well.

 

[Jammydodge]

done that had one in the garage ^^ turned it back on working at 40c now good times im gunna ring dell tommorow and say wtf is going on =o anything you think i should say other than that? xD im thinking of asking for a replacement as im going to uni saturday =O and dont think itll be cool to get a bsod when im doing an assignment =( hehe i gotta give credit to you guys though your the best tech support i know off

 

[Jonathan_King]

If you could get Dell to give you a replacement for free, that would be great.

If not, we can try to diagnose what piece of hardware is bad, and replace that.