Frequent BSOD's please help!

[neilburks]

will get right on it

 

[richc46]

The verifier is suppose to cause you to BSOD, and then you post the file. If the scans are negative, let me see the reports that lead you to the conclusion that it was the mystery software.

 

[neilburks]

Ok really satrting to lose my temper over this now

Downloaded malware and set it to work

Blue screen after 1 min

tried again

blue screen

tried running norton instead

Blue screen after 1 min


Ran computer in safe mode

Malware found 1 thing it didnt like - cleared and restarted comp

Ran norton - BLUE SCREEN ,

Tried safe mode

Blue screen during process again

The only ifo i got off one blue screen was

PAGE_FAULT_ON_A_NON_ACTIVE_PAGE or something to that effect ??

im really lost in what im looking for now and feel even further away from a fix! Can you make any sense of all this?

(thank u for ur persistance)

 

[richc46]

BSOD in safe mode is not good, could mean a hardware problem.
Possibly causes:
Overheating
Overclocking
Bad Hard Drive (likely)
Virus
Power Supply

Its hard to do anything if you cant even get into safe mode. I cant even get reports.

 

[neilburks]

well i think hard drive then the windows drive is pretty full


Its not overheating have checked this frequently (watercooled pc too)

Its not running any overclock at the moment




What shall i do buy a new HD and install windows on that ?

Will i still be able to acsess all the programs that have been installed to my current drive or will i have to reinstall everyting ? ( this is a bad option for me)

 

[richc46]

If your hard drive is full, why not buy an external hard drive and put most of your stuff there. Then your computer may work better. There will be no need to reinstall Windows.

 

[neilburks]

Ok so the plot gets worse

I decided to run chkdsk to see what that came up with if anything

On reboot i got an instant blue screen

after that i tried again and the system attempts to run chkdsk again even though its already done it , So i think i must have to disable chkdsk in the options

So i attemp to restart the computer in safe mode to do so and now the computer wont even load safe mode

so i cant run it in safe or normal mode

 

[richc46]

Sounds like hardware.
Start the computer, do you hear any beeps?

 

[neilburks]

nope no beeps

 

[richc46]

When you boot, how far does it get?

 

[neilburks]

if i start normally it will just run chkdsk straight away - then bluescreen once chkdsk has finished - on reboot it just runs chkdsk again ..... and on and on

if i try safe mode it shows you the loading files and then never loads


if i start it using "last known good settings" it starts up

 

[richc46]

A chkdsk problem usually means hard drive is gone or about ready to go.

 

[neilburks]

Ok well i managed to get it sarted in safe mode but im a little unsure what i should do next ?

I have performed a defrag and disk cleanup which got rid of about 30gb worth of rubbish

Shall i buy a new HD and a copy of windows 7? or try and transfer some of the stuff to another drive ( i have a blank hd installed already )

If i do the later how do i transefer the data from drive to drive correctly

 

[richc46]

If it were me I would try and transfer to a high capacity finger drive or CD. That would be the easiest way at this point.

 

[neilburks]

So shall i get a new drive and new install and bin the current drive ?

 

[richc46]

I am not there, but once you are sure that the Drive is bad might as well dispose of it.
Remember, dont just discard it, break it up into little pieces first. You have sensitive information on the drive. If it gets into the wrong hands they may be able to get that info.

 

[neilburks]

Ok so i discconnected the suspect drive , just to make sure i was replacing it with the correct one,

then i thought well il reconect it and retrive what i can before i bin it


To my amazment once i plugged it back in to try and boot windows it seems either the drive has completely failed or wiped itself

the boot menu recognizes the hd is plugged in but will not boot from it at all?

is there something im missing here or is this the death of my hd

 

[richc46]

This will tell us.
Try to load Ubuntu, if you cannot the drive is probably gone. If you can get your stuff.
Use Ubuntu Live CD to Backup Files from Your Dead Windows Computer - How-To Geek

 

[neilburks]

how long should unbuntu take to burn in imgburn?

 

[richc46]

I used imgbrn to make a CD of Windows 7 SP1 and it took about 30 minutes. Ubuntu should be the same or faster.