BSOD even after clean boot

[ohio_grad_06]

Also if CMOS battery does not do it, what psu are you running in that? Might try a known good unit as psu's can cause weird issues if they aren't good quality.

 

[ell]

Also if CMOS battery does not do it, what psu are you running in that? Might try a known good unit as psu's can cause weird issues if they aren't good quality.

yup, I tried that too, the only thing I did notice was a little flickering red on the sides of the monitor a couple times yesterday, it has integrated video, and the vga connector is a little loose, I'm think perhaps that, but if it is they won't pay for a new card, new memory stick and all the virus clean up anyways.

 

[HFultzjr]

Hi, I have a compaq sr5510f tower thats giving me headaches here. It had plenty of viruses which a I removed by putting the drive in another pc, because none of my boot discs would boot without a bsod. It booted fine then from that dell after the clean up. I put the drive back in the compaq, still getting bsod in normal boot, I can get into safe more sporadically, but can't seem to find the driver or thing thats causing the bsod, everything looks fine except there was a ton of extra network adapters, I disabled them and updated the nvida ethernet and video ones. bsod messages are driver and memory related. I replaced one bad stick of ram and ran full hardware diagnostics on everything. I even bsod from vista cds and booting hirens. I finally got it going long enough now to run chkdsk from a vista cd, but I don't think thats going to help. There no bios of video driver updates on hp site either. I have pulled the cmos, set default modes in bios too. I set msconfig for a clean boot too, still bsod. What am I missing here? bios virus? hidden partition? but that wouldn't explain why it works in a dell??

Hmmmm. So you got a hard drive from a Compaq with an installed operating system to boot with a Dell machine. I would have thought that would throw up an error.

Sounds like it is hardware related since you can't even use boot disks.

Start from the beginning and check each piece of hardware.

Strip down to the bare essentials and start from there.

Motherboard - check for bad caps
Video card if not onboard - re-seat
Keyboard and mouse - try another known good one
Ram - different stick/different slot, etc.

Then start adding components until you find something.

Maybe CD drive is going bad....can you boot from USB or external CD?

 

[HFultzjr]

linux froze, I don't know how to check cmos battery voltage, you mean a bad cmos battery could cause bsod? I put in another hd to try and do a clean install bsod, I ran a hour stress test boot disc off dvd on cpu, ram, hd, dvd, video and it passed, agh, then I put in one of my hd and tried to install vista, bsod must be a short under my radar, I guess I'm going to end up with just my diagnostic fee on this one, they don't even want data recovery. I hate that when I spend hours on something like this!

Try a different Vista install disk and method (USB). Maybe yours is bad.

 

[ell]

Hmmmm. So you got a hard drive from a Compaq with an installed operating system to boot with a Dell machine. I would have thought that would throw up an error. I know right?! but it didn't bsod

Sounds like it is hardware related since you can't even use boot disks.

Start from the beginning and check each piece of hardware.

Strip down to the bare essentials and start from there.

Motherboard - check for bad caps looked good
Video card if not onboard - re-seat integrated, I'm suspecting that cuz I did get a few red artifacts on boot some times.
Keyboard and mouse - try another known good one tried it
Ram - different stick/different slot, etc. yup, I did all that, I was sure that was it

Then start adding components until you find something.

Maybe CD drive is going bad....can you boot from USB or external CD?

bsod booting from usb drive too (I have several with tools on them, I just popped in a pci video card, got video but same bsod)

 

[lan101]

I would think after all that something motherboard related would have to be causing it to do that. Overheating maybe?

 

[ell]

I would think after all that something motherboard related would have to be causing it to do that. Overheating maybe?

Yeah, I've thrown in the towel, the only pci card in it is a modem, I pulled that too. I didn't try pulling/disabling the dvd drive though, but it still bsod from usb and the dvd drive works. I cleaned it all out the cpu fan was pretty bad, but works, my experience with temps is its usually not at the same point of bsod everytime, and the bsod error messages appear to be driver or memory related. The flicker of red on occasional boots tells me something in the board is screwed.