Fresh install of windows 7 still blue screening

borster

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Alright, bear with me here as i am not that tech savvy. Approx 1 month ago i got a new monitor for Christmas, after plugging it in i got a bsod for the first time since building my computer, which was around a year before that. Since then i have been experiencing blue screens more and more, along with my programs crashing and some of my browser tabs crashing. since i got tired of this i decided to reinstall windows 7, on a new hard drive. After doing so i have been getting blue screens still. I have also not been able to use windows update, and have not been able to update my drivers for my graphics card and monitor through the advanced options on screen resolution( it keeps saying that my graphics card is a standard vga graphics adapter, and that my monitor is a generic non pnp monitor) as I wanted to keep everything on my old one. i have gotten 3 different blue screen errors consistently which are:


IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

BAD_POOL_HEADER

MEMORY_MANAGEMENT

My computer specs are
windows 7 home premium 64 bit sp1
2x 4GB corsair vengeance ram sticks
i5-4670k @ 3.40GHz
Gigabyte GeForce GTX770 OC 4GB graphics card
Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H motherboard
WD 1TB Caviar Blue 7200 RPM 64 MB hard drive

The monitor that was giving me trouble
BenQ GL2460 LED TN 24-inch

edit: I forgot to mention that installing windows 7 took a few trys.

Any info helps!! sorry if wrong section on forums!

Sorry if this is not posted in the right section, feel free to move it or whatever is necessary. Any information helps!!!!
 
I have cleaned my computer multiple times since i have started having the problem. I did not run memtest that long perhaps i will try it.

A box popped up multiple times in the last 10 minutes saying microsoft windows search indexer has stopped working windows is collecting more information about the problem, then another box popped up asking if i want to send more information about the problem. I was doing nothing to prompt this box to pop up.

Also when i tried to install comodo antivirus it pops up with a box saying 7zip error

Sorry if some of the stuff im saying is not relevant, just trying to provide as much information as possible
 
Having basic install problems sounds like a memory, temperature or power problem. It shouldn't take multiple attempts to get windows to install. That is a basic hardware problem of some kind.

Did you clear your BIOS and load optimized defaults before attempting your Windows install? If you had tweaked something wrong in the BIOS it would still be that way independent of an OS install....
 
I made no changes in the bios since i made the computer, but i did not clear it and load optimized defaults, is that something i should look at regardless of not making any changes previously? What is the standard way to check if its a power problem? and how long should i leave memtest running to be sure that it is not the ram?
 
I would run MEMTEST 3 or 4 hours. That should give it a couple complete passes -- maybe more. I don't have a good way to test for a power problem.

Checking for a BIOS update is probably a good thing since you are having stability problems during install. Loading the optimized defaults in the BIOS, also is a good step for troubleshooting. Either of these two things could stabilize it or make things worse. But it sounds like this PC isn't too functional as is... While you are in the BIOS you can double check the temps since they are usually visible on one of the screens.
 
the dialogue box about windows microsoft search indexer has a duplicate that just popped up now, i will try to run memtest tonight on the new install if i can download it