Hi all,
I've built a system a while back and it's mostly been fine but it's now giving me BSODs randomly.
To preface a bit I'm fairly good with computers but by no means a complete expert, this thing does seem like something I may be able to solve totally off my own back but it's really odd and I'm not sure quite where to approach it from though so any advice is appreciated. I've let the issue run on a bit as it's a case where the annoyance it causes is fairly minimal and the BSODs have never occurred at a terrible time so I've always thought "Oh I'll just fix it later"...
Anyway, on to the problem...
Essentially the system will randomly and sporadically BSOD with various error messages (the latest was 0x7A - Kernal Data Inpage Error, ntfs.sys is another I've had). These BSODs don't seem connected in any way to what I'm doing on my computer and will occur totally random, sometimes going days without, they'll also occasionally give a few tale tale signs when they're about to occur (slowly things lock up - Alt Tab, Ctrl Alt Del, Ctrl Shift Esc etc - until the crash).
When the system does BSOD it will not reset though, it will just stay, frozen on the BSOD screen until I turn off / restart. Occasionally rather than BSOD the screen will just lock up / distort freeze and stay that way.
When I've gone to look for crash logs in the usual location though they don't seem to exist. I've downloaded bluescreen view but it can't find any logs anywhere either.
I think it's something with my SSD, second guess would be memory but the Windows 7 memory checker isn't reporting any problems. chkdsk /r on the boot drive doesn't return any problems either.
I've got a boot SSD, storage drive - would it be the storage drive playing up at all ???
I literally don't know any more, it's so odd. I can fix most things but this has left me totally stumped.
Any advice / suggestions very much appreicated!
I've built a system a while back and it's mostly been fine but it's now giving me BSODs randomly.
To preface a bit I'm fairly good with computers but by no means a complete expert, this thing does seem like something I may be able to solve totally off my own back but it's really odd and I'm not sure quite where to approach it from though so any advice is appreciated. I've let the issue run on a bit as it's a case where the annoyance it causes is fairly minimal and the BSODs have never occurred at a terrible time so I've always thought "Oh I'll just fix it later"...
Anyway, on to the problem...
Essentially the system will randomly and sporadically BSOD with various error messages (the latest was 0x7A - Kernal Data Inpage Error, ntfs.sys is another I've had). These BSODs don't seem connected in any way to what I'm doing on my computer and will occur totally random, sometimes going days without, they'll also occasionally give a few tale tale signs when they're about to occur (slowly things lock up - Alt Tab, Ctrl Alt Del, Ctrl Shift Esc etc - until the crash).
When the system does BSOD it will not reset though, it will just stay, frozen on the BSOD screen until I turn off / restart. Occasionally rather than BSOD the screen will just lock up / distort freeze and stay that way.
When I've gone to look for crash logs in the usual location though they don't seem to exist. I've downloaded bluescreen view but it can't find any logs anywhere either.
I think it's something with my SSD, second guess would be memory but the Windows 7 memory checker isn't reporting any problems. chkdsk /r on the boot drive doesn't return any problems either.
I've got a boot SSD, storage drive - would it be the storage drive playing up at all ???
I literally don't know any more, it's so odd. I can fix most things but this has left me totally stumped.
Any advice / suggestions very much appreicated!
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