Never-ending blue screen errors during boot [WINDOWS 10]

[Papaluty]

So I downloaded a driver off of the TP-LINK site for my TP-LINK wireless adapter as I kept getting blue screens from time to time, and it seemed like that was the problem as many users were having the same issue with the same driver. I installed the driver onto my wireless adapter and everything worked fine. I restarted my computer and it booted up and it worked for about 1 hour, then it blue screen and crashed.

I thought ok it's just gonna start up again and I can google the error message and see the problem now. Well, it blue screened again during start up and restarted, and again, and again, and still now. I've had several error messages I will list a few of them: CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED, BAD_POOL_HEADER, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, BAD_POOL_CALLER, and some others.

I've tried reinstalling windows using a usb, I've tried restarting windows (i forget the term, but its when you basically reinstall and choose whether you want to wipe or keep personal files), ive tried a System Restore at every date possible, and none have worked. I've tried "chkdsk" in command prompt and it said "Windows has checked the file system and found problems. Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these." then when I try that it says "The type of the files system is NTFS. Cannot lock current drive. Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected."

What do I do, I've tried everything that I know from my knowledge and google. Thanks.

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Welcome to the community, Papaluty!

Unfortunately, I'm afraid that there's something very wrong with your HDD. I'd recommend you to check your hard drive manufacturer's website for a DOS version of a diagnostic tool, that will help you test the health and SMART status of the HDD without booting into any OS.
Another way to troubleshoot that is to plug the drive to another computer and use a diagnostic tool for Windows from your manufacturer or some of the third-party suggestions here: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility

Your HDD might faulty, so if you have another drive lying around somewhere, you could try swapping them and see how it will get detected in your system.

Keep me posted. Hope this helps.
SuperSoph_WD

 

[Papaluty]

Welcome to the community, Papaluty!

Unfortunately, I'm afraid that there's something very wrong with your HDD. I'd recommend you to check your hard drive manufacturer's website for a DOS version of a diagnostic tool, that will help you test the health and SMART status of the HDD without booting into any OS.
Another way to troubleshoot that is to plug the drive to another computer and use a diagnostic tool for Windows from your manufacturer or some of the third-party suggestions here: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility

Your HDD might faulty, so if you have another drive lying around somewhere, you could try swapping them and see how it will get detected in your system.

Keep me posted. Hope this helps.
SuperSoph_WD

Is it possible that my TP-LINK driver download could be the root of all this trouble?

 

[sancezzio]

Did you actually solve your problem then? Was it the driver or was it a faulty hdd? I am having a similar issue.

 

[johnbl]

It is not very likely that the soultion selected would have fixed these type of errors. (it could be the cause though)
This particular error is very common with the tp-link driver and just requires a driver update OR
update of the BIOS and USB port drivers in the case of a USB wireless thumb driver.

you just can not tell for sure without actually looking at the memory dump files.

Did you actually solve your problem then? Was it the driver or was it a faulty hdd? I am having a similar issue.

 

[Papaluty]

Did you actually solve your problem then? Was it the driver or was it a faulty hdd? I am having a similar issue.

It actually turned out to be my SSD. It was corrupt, I was able to put it in my laptop and see what would happen, and it did the same thing as I described. Most SSD and HDD companies generally have a warranty to replace the part, which is what I did. Oh, and one of my 8GB of RAM was corrupted as well, it related to a few bluescreens I got. You can test your RAM by using Windows Memory Diagnostic, but I would have to guess it is your HDD/SSD.

 

[sancezzio]

Did you actually solve your problem then? Was it the driver or was it a faulty hdd? I am having a similar issue.

It actually turned out to be my SSD. It was corrupt, I was able to put it in my laptop and see what would happen, and it did the same thing as I described. Most SSD and HDD companies generally have a warranty to replace the part, which is what I did. Oh, and one of my 8GB of RAM was corrupted as well, it related to a few bluescreens I got. You can test your RAM by using Windows Memory Diagnostic, but I would have to guess it is your HDD/SSD.

That's interesting. Windows memory diagnostic and also memtest86 show no errors at all on my RAM, and my SSD and HDD work absolutely fine in my sandy bridge PC (Same windows install even). Also my PC works in safe mode, but is not able to install Windows even on a brand new, clean SSD because it just blue screens.

 

[johnbl]

I would try your SSD on your sata controller that is supported by the CPU chipset, generally the slower one.
the bugcheck code will have a parameter 1 that indicated the error code for the failure.

there are many bugcheck codes, each with many error codes so it is hard to give good advice without looking at the memory dump file which has the info on why windows shutdown the machine.

Did you actually solve your problem then? Was it the driver or was it a faulty hdd? I am having a similar issue.

It actually turned out to be my SSD. It was corrupt, I was able to put it in my laptop and see what would happen, and it did the same thing as I described. Most SSD and HDD companies generally have a warranty to replace the part, which is what I did. Oh, and one of my 8GB of RAM was corrupted as well, it related to a few bluescreens I got. You can test your RAM by using Windows Memory Diagnostic, but I would have to guess it is your HDD/SSD.

That's interesting. Windows memory diagnostic and also memtest86 show no errors at all on my RAM, and my SSD and HDD work absolutely fine in my sandy bridge PC (Same windows install even). Also my PC works in safe mode, but is not able to install Windows even on a brand new, clean SSD because it just blue screens.