- Jul 23, 2013
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Current build -
Gigabyte ga-z77x-ud3h mobo
MSI Nvidia 660 gtx
Antec 650w psu
Intel I5-3570k
GSkill Ripjaw 4Gx4 DDR3 1600
Samsung 840Pro ssd
WD Cavier Green 500gb hdd
Win7 64bit
Last night while I was watching TV my computer decided it wanted to BSOD with a stop error message pointing to wdfldr.sys. I had just installed an ssd a few days before and was currently using my old 500gig hdd as a secondary storage so I figured that either that was the culprit or Windows had somehow gotten corrupt.
I decided to try to boot to each drive individually and disconnect the other drive to see if I could access either, neither can be booted into and both of them give me the same stop message BSOD.
If I try to repair windows instead of load, I get an IRQL_NOT BSOD on both drives and randomly a BAD_POOL stop message. So I attempt to use my Windows repair disk, BSOD then my original Windows 7 install disk and the same thing with it going to a BSOD again.
At this point I figure I will reset my BIOS back to default which has no effect and I physically reset my CMOS which has no effect. At this point I'm starting to suspect my RAM might be acting up so I run memtest86+ for about 4-5 hours and it detects nothing and just to make sure, I remove all but 1 stick and try it and each slot and do the same for all sticks until I have tested them all individually, nothing helps.
At this point I am sure it is the motherboard acting up, so I pull both drives and go to try them in another computer. I can get into the repair tool on the second computer, but it just always tells me it can't fix whatever problem it thinks it has. I have tried chkdsk which found no errors. While in command prompt I tried to fixmbr which did nothing and I tried to sfc /scannow which just tells me windows protection could not perform the operation.
Finally I said screw it and just completely formatted and re-installed Windows on the ssd, I can boot into it on my second computer but when I put it back in mine I get another BSOD this time with the IRQL_NOT message when trying to install Windows from the disk.
I just don't get it, if its a driver or faulty install then the fresh install should have cleared the issues on the ssd but didn't, if it was a faulty drive it should have not worked with a fresh install on another computer. If it was a ram issue, memtest and moving the ram between dimm slots should have found the problem, if it was a motherboard issue those are some weird BSOD messages to get.
Other things I have tried -
Re-seating the cpu and gpu just to be thorough.
Updated bios to the latest version.
Any ideas you guys have would be great appreciated.
Gigabyte ga-z77x-ud3h mobo
MSI Nvidia 660 gtx
Antec 650w psu
Intel I5-3570k
GSkill Ripjaw 4Gx4 DDR3 1600
Samsung 840Pro ssd
WD Cavier Green 500gb hdd
Win7 64bit
Last night while I was watching TV my computer decided it wanted to BSOD with a stop error message pointing to wdfldr.sys. I had just installed an ssd a few days before and was currently using my old 500gig hdd as a secondary storage so I figured that either that was the culprit or Windows had somehow gotten corrupt.
I decided to try to boot to each drive individually and disconnect the other drive to see if I could access either, neither can be booted into and both of them give me the same stop message BSOD.
If I try to repair windows instead of load, I get an IRQL_NOT BSOD on both drives and randomly a BAD_POOL stop message. So I attempt to use my Windows repair disk, BSOD then my original Windows 7 install disk and the same thing with it going to a BSOD again.
At this point I figure I will reset my BIOS back to default which has no effect and I physically reset my CMOS which has no effect. At this point I'm starting to suspect my RAM might be acting up so I run memtest86+ for about 4-5 hours and it detects nothing and just to make sure, I remove all but 1 stick and try it and each slot and do the same for all sticks until I have tested them all individually, nothing helps.
At this point I am sure it is the motherboard acting up, so I pull both drives and go to try them in another computer. I can get into the repair tool on the second computer, but it just always tells me it can't fix whatever problem it thinks it has. I have tried chkdsk which found no errors. While in command prompt I tried to fixmbr which did nothing and I tried to sfc /scannow which just tells me windows protection could not perform the operation.
Finally I said screw it and just completely formatted and re-installed Windows on the ssd, I can boot into it on my second computer but when I put it back in mine I get another BSOD this time with the IRQL_NOT message when trying to install Windows from the disk.
I just don't get it, if its a driver or faulty install then the fresh install should have cleared the issues on the ssd but didn't, if it was a faulty drive it should have not worked with a fresh install on another computer. If it was a ram issue, memtest and moving the ram between dimm slots should have found the problem, if it was a motherboard issue those are some weird BSOD messages to get.
Other things I have tried -
Re-seating the cpu and gpu just to be thorough.
Updated bios to the latest version.
Any ideas you guys have would be great appreciated.
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