Random BSOD, led to freeze on ASRock screen, cannot access BIOS or load Windows.

RemyKaz

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Jan 19, 2013
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I was watching a trailer on a DVD and was hit with a random blue screen. After the first, I was still able to boot and log in, but kept getting the BSOD. I got to the point where I could access BIOS but it would freeze on the Starting Windows screen, with no option to go to Safe Mode. I reseated the GPU, which resulted in the option to perform windows recovery or start normally. When I tried to recovered to an earlier point, it gave me an error(included as an attachment along with the blue screen since I can't get it to boot at all). I tried changing the SATA to IDE to exhaust options, and it would not boot that way. Turned it off to reset the SATA in BIOS, and found it had started freezing on the ASRock splash page. Temps were low, nothing was being strained, and nothing unfamiliar had been installed, run, or downloaded. Below are specs.

ASRock Z97 Extreme6
MSI GTX 970 Gaming
Intel i7 -4770
G. Skill Ripjaws 4G X2
Corsair HX750 PSU
Cooler Master Hyper 212-plus
Windows 7 Home 64-bit
LG random Bluray burner
WD 1TB HDD
Intel 240GB SSD

Any help would be appreciated. There are just so many possible causes that I'm having trouble pinning it down.


 

MetalSparks

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Jan 24, 2015
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Ouch, sounds like a pain.

1. Turn off your PSU and remove your motherboard's battery.
2. Leave the battery out for 5 minutes before putting it back in.
3. Remove all hard drives.
4. Put it back in and turn on the PSU.
5. Turn on the computer.
6. Attempt to boot to BIOS.

If you can boot to BIOS:
1. Change SATA to UEFI (or if not supported on your build choose Legacy)
2. Turn off computer.
3. Connect all hard drives.
4. Try to boot to desktop.

Let me know how everything goes.
 

RemyKaz

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Jan 19, 2013
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I took out the CMOS battery and reinstalled it. That helped me get back to BIOS. I switched to the Intel onboard graphics on the mobo and it ran without an issue. Tested the memory, no issues. Ran WhoCrashed and it determined that it was a software issue. I'm thinking the GPU is having driver conflicts with something else, or maybe the PSU is only partially working. Either way, the GPU seems to be the issue, but it also seems to be running fine.