- Jul 28, 2017
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Hi all,
since about a week or so I've been getting major problems with my PC.
The first BSOD happened while streaming a torrent on BitX. Gave me the message "Unexpected store error". Upon rebooting, I got an error saying winload.exe was corrupt or missing. I believe the error was 0xc000000e. I was unable to access any startup repair option, cmd, safe mode boot whatsoever.
I then proceeded to download windows again through my laptop and created a bootable usb stick. Booting from said stick, I was unable to perform a startup repair, or use SFC /scannow and DISM.
I managed to restore the system to a previous restore point.
Then 2 days with no errors, the system ran just fine.
3 Days ago it started again. This time the BSOD message was "Critical Process Died" and it happened while playing Assassin's Creed: Origins.
Since then I managed to format and reinstall windows about 8 times, all ending in a BSOD, with no option to reboot the system, fix the boot and restore the computer. I have followed guides to boot in safe mode, use bcdedit (which ended up in a access denied for the /fixboot cmd), and all the sorts.
After all the googling I did, it appears these 2 errors are mainly caused by either bad/old drivers or broken/dying HDD/SSD. And since every time I had to format, I reinstalled windows AND upgraded all the drivers, I decided to run one more test: try to stress the system when no drivers were installed. So today I did one more format, one more clean Windows install, and run an AIDA64 stress test without installing anything else but the 4-5 windows updates i had available.
The system crashed after 39 minutes, again giving me the winload.exe error on reboot. This should theoretically exclude any drivers issue?
At this point I went ahead and dismounted the HDD from the laptop, installed it on the PC, format and clean windows install to make sure the SSD was the cause. BUT, and here comes the real mindblowing part, when I put the SSD from my PC onto my laptop to format it again, there it goes! It starts! I have no freaking idea how is that even possible.
To recap:
I am at a complete loss.
I can provide, unfortunately, only one minidump.
My specs
Motherboard: MSI Z170a Gaming M3
CPU: Intel i7 6700k
RAM: Corsair Vengeange LPX DDR4 4x8GB @stock speed
VGA: NVidia GeForce GTX 1060 from ASUS Strix
OS SSD: Samsung 840 PRO 512 GB
PSU: Modular Corsair HX850 850W 80Plus Gold
CPU Cooling: Noctua NH-D9L
Windows 10 Home 64bit
since about a week or so I've been getting major problems with my PC.
The first BSOD happened while streaming a torrent on BitX. Gave me the message "Unexpected store error". Upon rebooting, I got an error saying winload.exe was corrupt or missing. I believe the error was 0xc000000e. I was unable to access any startup repair option, cmd, safe mode boot whatsoever.
I then proceeded to download windows again through my laptop and created a bootable usb stick. Booting from said stick, I was unable to perform a startup repair, or use SFC /scannow and DISM.
I managed to restore the system to a previous restore point.
Then 2 days with no errors, the system ran just fine.
3 Days ago it started again. This time the BSOD message was "Critical Process Died" and it happened while playing Assassin's Creed: Origins.
Since then I managed to format and reinstall windows about 8 times, all ending in a BSOD, with no option to reboot the system, fix the boot and restore the computer. I have followed guides to boot in safe mode, use bcdedit (which ended up in a access denied for the /fixboot cmd), and all the sorts.
After all the googling I did, it appears these 2 errors are mainly caused by either bad/old drivers or broken/dying HDD/SSD. And since every time I had to format, I reinstalled windows AND upgraded all the drivers, I decided to run one more test: try to stress the system when no drivers were installed. So today I did one more format, one more clean Windows install, and run an AIDA64 stress test without installing anything else but the 4-5 windows updates i had available.
The system crashed after 39 minutes, again giving me the winload.exe error on reboot. This should theoretically exclude any drivers issue?
At this point I went ahead and dismounted the HDD from the laptop, installed it on the PC, format and clean windows install to make sure the SSD was the cause. BUT, and here comes the real mindblowing part, when I put the SSD from my PC onto my laptop to format it again, there it goes! It starts! I have no freaking idea how is that even possible.
To recap:
BSOD while watching movie on BitX and while playing Assassin's Creed: Origins (either "UNEXPECTED STORE ERROR or CRITICAL PROCESS DIED)
Unable to reboot after BSOD, error 0xc000000e with Winload.exe missing
Fresh Win10 install, driver/bios update solved nothing
Pulled SSD from PC after crash (winload.exe missing, impossible to reboot)
Put SSD into laptop, windows starts just fine
SFC /scannow and DISM didnt work after the first BSOD but they did work after the clean install and didn't find any issue, still got BSOD
chkdsk found no errors/bad sectors
I am at a complete loss.
I can provide, unfortunately, only one minidump.
My specs
Motherboard: MSI Z170a Gaming M3
CPU: Intel i7 6700k
RAM: Corsair Vengeange LPX DDR4 4x8GB @stock speed
VGA: NVidia GeForce GTX 1060 from ASUS Strix
OS SSD: Samsung 840 PRO 512 GB
PSU: Modular Corsair HX850 850W 80Plus Gold
CPU Cooling: Noctua NH-D9L
Windows 10 Home 64bit
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