Long list of issues following an upgrade

shui3

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Mar 13, 2013
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I've been experiencing a ton of issues with my build when I installed my new motherboard ram and CPU. I upgraded to:
- MSI 760GM-E51(FX) AMD 760 Motherboard
- AMD FD6300WMHkBOX FX-6300 Six-Core 3.5GHz AM3+ Processor
- Patriot PGD316G1333ELK Gamer 2 Series Desktop Memory Kit - 16GB (2 x 8GB)

I've been having blue screen issues ever since, some times I would blue screen on initial boot of the day then it would run fine for the rest of the day. Some times it would crash in the middle of the day. Most of the common blue screen reasons were:
- pfn_list_corrupt
- memory_management
- page_fault_in_non_paged_area

Up until yesterday I would be able to boot up the pc once or twice then I'd be able to use it fro the rest of the day. but now I'm unable to boot at all because there is a near instant blue screen and I can't do anything to prevent it. I've booted into safe mode to scan all corners of my pc for issues, be it fault memory or something corrupt in the system and I've found no errors. Earlier today I tried to load into my system recovery disk to load from a previous image and it would not let me. I tried to completely re-install the operating system but it returns one of two errors:
- "Required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now."
- "windows encountered an internal while initializing COM"

I'm starting to get the feeling that i'm going to have to move away from windows and attempt to fix it using a linux operating system. Currently I'm running another run of the Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool to see if it finds something this time. (extended text mix with cache on and 3 passes) Which might be pointless if I can't boot the OS to read the test results.
 
It does sound like a memory issue to me. I've seen Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool give a clean bill of health to a computer with memory problems before. Try memtest instead. You can download it at http://www.memtest.org/
 


45% into the test and it's up to 25 errors. Thanks for the suggestion, going to be replacing ram ASAP.
 

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