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Post by jc on Mar 8, 2016 21:39:40 GMT
My wife's Win7 machine has decided to repeatedly enter the BSOD  Never reaching a booted state. I have tried all the usuall things, have googled and tried some more things and tried booting from a recovery CD. All with the same result, BSOD! I've suspected the HDD to be on the blink for a while (but Mrs cj didn't want her PC down for a HDD change, paying the price now) but the stop codes I'm gettting are refering to anything but that, RAM, missing/corrupted login file etc. Obviously I was hoping to recover the PC so before I throw in a new SSD and start from scratch (along with possibility that there is something else wrong) are there any suggestions or even pixie dust measures to try first? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2016 22:02:54 GMT
My wife's Win7 machine has decided to repeatedly enter the BSOD Never reaching a booted state. I have tried all the usuall things, have googled and tried some more things and tried booting from a recovery CD. All with the same result, BSOD! I've suspected the HDD to be on the blink for a while (but Mrs cj didn't want her PC down for a HDD change, paying the price now) but the stop codes I'm gettting are refering to anything but that, RAM, missing/corrupted login file etc. Obviously I was hoping to recover the PC so before I throw in a new SSD and start from scratch (along with possibility that there is something else wrong) are there any suggestions or even pixie dust measures to try first? Unfortunately, the SMPS may be another possibility ? |
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Post by jc on Mar 8, 2016 22:35:15 GMT
Alex,
I should have mentioned that the SMPS was replaced about a month ago.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2016 22:41:21 GMT
Alex, I should have mentioned that the SMPS was replaced about a month ago. Chris A long shot, but is the original SMPS still functional ? Alex
P.S. Are important documents etc. duplicated on another internal HDD ?
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Post by jc on Mar 8, 2016 22:55:43 GMT
Alex, No the old PSU completely died. My wife back up data  . There's nothing exactly essential on there though, I'm hoping the drive will be good to enough access once it isn't the home of the OS, assuming fatal errors are on a segment the OS lives on. |
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Post by freddypipsqueek on Mar 9, 2016 18:10:12 GMT
Check the capacitors on the motherboard. It is not uncommon at all for them to leak and then create various faults which are coded as failed RAM, video card, HDD etc. I have just replaced two caps on my 8 year old MB and sorted out the random rebooting I was getting; the ATI driver was creating a BSOD because the caps were both part of the PCIE system.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2016 20:14:16 GMT
Windows will spit out its entire collection of error messages, one after the other, if it's stopped by a glitch.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Mar 9, 2016 21:20:23 GMT
Check the capacitors on the motherboard. It is not uncommon at all for them to leak and then create various faults which are coded as failed RAM, video card, HDD etc. I have just replaced two caps on my 8 year old MB and sorted out the random rebooting I was getting; the ATI driver was creating a BSOD because the caps were both part of the PCIE system. X2 Chris. |
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Post by PinkFloyd on Mar 9, 2016 21:25:10 GMT
Windows will spit out its entire collection of error messages, one after the other, if it's stopped by a glitch. Again............ X2  |
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Post by jc on Mar 9, 2016 23:33:07 GMT
Check the capacitors on the motherboard. It is not uncommon at all for them to leak and then create various faults which are coded as failed RAM, video card, HDD etc. I have just replaced two caps on my 8 year old MB and sorted out the random rebooting I was getting; the ATI driver was creating a BSOD because the caps were both part of the PCIE system. Yes! I did look for that as the PC is pretty old and because of having had the PSU fail, no obvious leaks or bulges. I've given all connections, wires and daughter boards alike, a good clean and tried again but no improvement. Then Installed a new SSD and a fresh Win7 installation went on without issue, so far so good. I forgot to bring an extra SATA lead to attempt retrieval of the old HDDs data so will try that tomorrow. BTW, the mobo is an old MSI, what a bitch to find the drivers! |
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Post by jc on Mar 9, 2016 23:33:37 GMT
Windows will spit out its entire collection of error messages, one after the other, if it's stopped by a glitch. Very true. |
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Never reaching a booted state.
. There's nothing exactly essential on there though, I'm hoping the drive will be good to enough access once it isn't the home of the OS, assuming fatal errors are on a segment the OS lives on.
