Blue Screen on New PC PLEASE HELP!

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Hello, So today me and my brother built a new PC. We assembled it all worked and it posted, but then later I went to install the OS I went into the boot menu and selected my USB which had my Windows 7 Setup on. It started normally and said loading Windows files then said starting Windows, only a few seconds later it blue screened with the error 'PFN LIST CORRUPT' I looked it up and it said it could do with the memory so I reseated the RAM and checked the computer was recognising it in the bios and it did. So I tried again but again it blue screened. So I thought it could do with my install being bad. So on another computer I did a clean install of windows 7 on a different Hard Drive I then booted up the blue screening computer with this hard drive and again it got to Starting Windows and then it would blue screen :(. I have tried everything Google has told me and it's still not working. I don't know if its related but it tells me that the motherboard CMOS battery has died but I wouldn't think this would affect the computer. Also it keeps trying to boot from the network then the network fails (as I don't have a OS running through the network) and it boots from the Hard Drive also in the bios it won't let me change the boot order for some reason. If I try to run system recovery it gives me another blue screen which says BAD_POOL_HEADER.
Don't know if it helps but here are the specs of the machine:
Intel Core i3 3.0 Ghz
1x 4gb DDR3 Crucial Ram
Intel DH55TC Motherboard
500W Power Supply
also no Graphics Card at the minute.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)
Thank you sorry for the long story as well.
 
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bad pool header generally indicates a memory corruption problem.

update the BIOS to get updated memory timings, reboot and run memtest86 on its own boot image to confirm your memory timings are ok.

if it is ok, the post the memory dump if it is not ok then you may have installed the OS with bad memory settings and you want to confirm your files on disk are not corrupted.
run cmd.exe as an admin then run
sfc.exe /scannow

if you still get the bugcheck, the quickest way to figure out the problem( if it is a driver problem corrupting memory)
would be to:
start cmd.exe as an admin, then run
verifier.exe /standard /all
reboot.
this will force windows to check your drivers for common error and force a bugcheck and name the bad driver in...
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go into the bios and disable everything that's not critical, sound, network, 1394, com and lpt ports, modem. try the install again.
 
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bad pool header generally indicates a memory corruption problem.

update the BIOS to get updated memory timings, reboot and run memtest86 on its own boot image to confirm your memory timings are ok.

if it is ok, the post the memory dump if it is not ok then you may have installed the OS with bad memory settings and you want to confirm your files on disk are not corrupted.
run cmd.exe as an admin then run
sfc.exe /scannow

if you still get the bugcheck, the quickest way to figure out the problem( if it is a driver problem corrupting memory)
would be to:
start cmd.exe as an admin, then run
verifier.exe /standard /all
reboot.
this will force windows to check your drivers for common error and force a bugcheck and name the bad driver in the memory .dmp file.
after the bugcheck, boot (into safe mode if you have to) and turn off verifier.exe
verifier.exe /reset
then you can use whocrashed.exe or bluescreenviewer.exe on the memory dump and read the driver name.
Or put the memory dump on a server and post a link and someone with a debugger can take a quick look.
 
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THANKS SO MUCH I'LL TRY THOSE :D
*UPDATE* I tried to run memtest86. I downloaded the usb version put it on the usb. I booted the PC to this but only 5 seconds after memtest booted up it crashed and displayed lots of colours then the machine restarted. Any idea what this could mean? Is it my RAM at fault or something else?
Thanks for the help means a lot to me :)

 
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it can be the RAM or the BIOS settings for the RAM.
I would reset the BIOS to defaults, get the system stable then update the BIOS.
(don't update the BIOS or files while the system is not stable)
Also, if you installed the OS while having RAM issues be sure to check your core files for corruption:
run cmd.exe as an admin, then run
sfc.exe /scannow





 
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So I replaced the ram and it still won't boot up it doesn't give me a blue screen it just restarts when I try to boot it. Any ideas what it could be? Motherboard? CPU? :'(
 
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can you get into BIOS and go to default settings?


 
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try to reinstall windows, go through the advanced setup options and do a full format of the hard drive.
 
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I can't even get into the windows installation it just crashes which is my problem.
*UPDATE* The board was the fault I contacted the seller and he gave me a full refund.
So I'm going to buy a different board and CPU
 
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