Hi all, I am having an interesting computer problem. I am at school right now so I dont have the dump files, I can post those later if needed. But here is what I know right now and what is happening. Recently, almost randomly I started to have BSOD's. And when my computer restarts it would give the error NTLDR missing. I went into my bios and checked, it is giving the NTLDR because it is changing the boot drive to another harddrive that doesnt have windows on it. Sometimes I can change the boot to my regular harddrive and it would work fine, other times, it still crashes randomly and changes the boot drive. Some of the dumps blamed a Ethernet driver, and a few kernel based drivers/operations, also paging errors.
So I went to reading on the internet, saw to run mem check, did that, pass with no errors, ran it 3 times. Saw to run harddrive check, harddrive is not dirty and has no errors, ran it 3 times. Tried windows startup repair, failed to install. Tried to re install windows on the HD in question, windows would get to where it was almost done and start "moving files and programs" then it would crash and windows would revert back to old install. So finally, I took that harddrive out, formatted one of my other HD's, and installed windows on it last night. This morning I got up, tried to play on the computer. BSOD for IRQL less or not equal 2 times. I guess my question at this point, is can anyone recommend anything at all? Is it possible the memory can pass mem check but still be bad? Is it possible to still have driver problems on a fresh install? Below are the details for my computer. Thanks in advance for any help! I can post the dump files when I get home later tonight if needed, any other info needed please let me know! Thanks!
I5 3570k, overclocked by asus suite to 4.2g. 8gb corsair 1600 memory. p8z77 v lk mobo. 2 hd's one being a seagate, the other being a western digital. Windows 7 home premium, fully updated. 7870 2gb amd graphics card. Corsair 1500 headset, no speakers. Trend Micro anti virus, fully updated. 750 W power supply. EVO cpu cooler.
So I went to reading on the internet, saw to run mem check, did that, pass with no errors, ran it 3 times. Saw to run harddrive check, harddrive is not dirty and has no errors, ran it 3 times. Tried windows startup repair, failed to install. Tried to re install windows on the HD in question, windows would get to where it was almost done and start "moving files and programs" then it would crash and windows would revert back to old install. So finally, I took that harddrive out, formatted one of my other HD's, and installed windows on it last night. This morning I got up, tried to play on the computer. BSOD for IRQL less or not equal 2 times. I guess my question at this point, is can anyone recommend anything at all? Is it possible the memory can pass mem check but still be bad? Is it possible to still have driver problems on a fresh install? Below are the details for my computer. Thanks in advance for any help! I can post the dump files when I get home later tonight if needed, any other info needed please let me know! Thanks!
I5 3570k, overclocked by asus suite to 4.2g. 8gb corsair 1600 memory. p8z77 v lk mobo. 2 hd's one being a seagate, the other being a western digital. Windows 7 home premium, fully updated. 7870 2gb amd graphics card. Corsair 1500 headset, no speakers. Trend Micro anti virus, fully updated. 750 W power supply. EVO cpu cooler.