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Update: got new RAM, which passes memtest. Windows boots. I'm running a chkdsk just in case anything got messed up while running with the bad RAM. The new disk is already in the mail, so I'll be swapping the old one out when it arrives. Maybe I'll just do a straight disk copy if the old one...

I'm RMAing the RAM. New RAM should be here hopefully by the end of the week. Western Digital's Quick Test isn't reporting any errors on the disk. None of the SMART-reading tools on UBCD has been able to give me a reading on the attributes of the disk. Maybe when the RAM gets here it'll boot...

Unfortunately, can't check if chkdsk got errors because it won't boot into Windows. I was finally able to run memtest86, and it's showing errors. Looks like I have some bad RAM. Could that be causing all of the problems? Or is it likely that the disk might have problems, too?

At the suggestion of a friend, I disabled every other bootable device, and then it successfully booted from USB drive.

So the disk check was stuck at 27% for at least four hours. Then it eventually completed (or failed through) after like 9 hours (I was asleep) and it's back to the BSOD-reboot cycle. I'm RMA-ing the drive to WD, and we'll see if that solves it. Not too excited at the prospect of reinstalling...

I'm sorry, I have no idea what you just said.

My system has suddenly been running into problems, so I wanted to run a check of the memory (I'm not confident it's a memory problem, as it's been stable as a rock since I built it -- probably a driver issue, but still worth checking). I downloaded UBCD and followed the instructions to make a...

This morning a little after 3, my system blue screened and has been stuck in an endless cycle of reboots following blue screens. Each blue screen seems to have a different error -- very frustrating! From what I understand, 3am is the scheduled time for system maintenance, so after some limited...

I see what you're saying, but the surge protector's protection light is still on (supposedly it'll go off once it's no longer providing a good amount of protection), and I'd be really surprised if the PSU's reset period was so long (on Tuesday I kept trying it periodically for ~8 hours)...

It was on a ~2y/o surge protector, but I tried swapping out for another surge protector and even another power cable.

On Tuesday I had unplugged absolutely everything, then re-plugged the PSU in tightly. Nothing else was plugged in. I had ensured that the screw-rings were tight when I installed it on Tuesday, but as I say it wasn't even running with nothing plugged in other than the mobo (the cables for which...

I had cleaned out all the dust on Tuesday. And it's too much of a coincidence to be magic. And I'm not happy that it's working because I don't know when it'll stop working again.

It's a 1000W PSU, exact same model as before. When it shut down, I was not doing anything. I had been playing a game about an hour earlier with no problems. And the system wouldn't boot on Tuesday even after I'd stripped it down to just the mobo & CPU. Relevant Specs (everything's a little...