Bazman

OK there is the result of the cmd screen the commend "bcedit" is not recognised [ATTACH=CONFIG]1043.vB5-legacyid=1968[/ATTACH] will check BIOS On next reboot. How can I check if the solid state is running SATA or AHCI? Double checked the "indows update" in control panel the drivers are set to update automatically and the last time it updated was June 15th

Hi there, The computer has two hard drives a solid state one that it boots off and a traditional one as back up. How can I find out that the bios boot up sequence is set to? Again how can I check of the boot.ini has been altered? I will double check the drivers but I haven't done anything manually but as far as I know they are all set to update automatically as and when they become available. Certainly no need to apologise all help is very welcome.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]1042.vB5-legacyid=1967[/ATTACH] I include fuller details of the last two BSOD's.

I realise this is an old one but been on holiday etc. Anyway finally got those brushes and gave the inside a really good clean. I can't guarantee I got it all (especially if there is dust jammed down the slots on the motherboard where the graphics card sits) but it's a lot better than it was with all visible dust removed. Still getting those dammed BSOD's though with the same error codes each time: 0X00000124, 0x0...0X16, 0XFFFFFA800DC2E028,)x00000000BE200000,Ox00000000000T110A. If memory serves these indicate a memory card problem? If you like I can send pictures of the motherboard slots where the motherboard fits, some parts seem a little discoloured even though I have cleaned it as well as I can.

Well a further two crashes with the same error code given both times (0x00000124), and even the same memory locations referred to each time? However I have to confess I have not done the thorough internal clean yet so I'll wait till I've done that before doing anything else. With that in mind would these brushes be appropriate for internal cleaning: http://www.artsupplies.co.uk/brushes-series-a-hog-brush-long-flat-oil-brushes.htm

Donation made, very grateful for this resource so happy to lend my support. I was away at lunch when the last blue screen occurred so I'm not sure how the load would have increased while I was not there. Will try cleaning the interior again paying more attention to the fans this time. Lets see how that goes. If the problem persists I guess I'll have to look at improved cooling. Just as a heads up do you think water cooling might be better in my situation as this will not be as susceptible to dust?

I'm open to doing it but this seems to have been a spike in temperature? Indeed the spike may well have been higher than 65C not sure any cooling system could deal with such spikes?

argghh just had another BSOD. Really thought I had cracked it this time, the computer had been running so well! I opened speccy straight after re-booting and the CPU temperature was abnormally high at around 65C, this has been dropping ever since to the normal temp around 50C. So it seems the CPU was exposed to some temperature spike quite possibly above 65C. I assumed I's be able to look up the errors in BlueScreenView so I didn't not them down by hand, but sadly, BlueScreenView doesn't seem to have worked in this case. Indeed looking at this history BlueScreenView seems to see a lot fewer crashed than I think I have actually experienced.

Hi guys, So far so good! Computer generally seems to be running better as well. Got the air spray, I think I was using it at too close range though as it almost seemed to create some moisture on the motherboard first couple of times I spraid it? Luckily seems no harm done (or so it would see,). I have another PC that got progressively sicker and sicker before completely dying, you've given me the confidence to try and resuscitate it as well. Will post here if there are any probs but I'm pretty sure it is overheating in that is the problem there. Thanks again for everything. Let me know what I should pay in way of a donation I'm only a student but do appreciate your help so happy to pay whatever you think is right.

OK wow took the card out as advised somehow there was a lot of dust (more like grey cotton wool) had gotten in there. Cleaned it out and restarted we'll see if that improves the stability. Not a moment too soon either I think just as before I switched the PC off my screen went "haywire" with the display all higgilty piggilty? I really hope this cleaning of the connectors will be sufficient to restore stability.

Yes I have a separate graphics card: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Will clean as advised it was covered in dusk last I looked and I didn't want to be too rough with it when trying to remove the dust. Don't know if I'm putting two + two together and getting 5 but the link you sent suggests that problems with the video driver can cause these BSODs. How can I check if my driver is old and /or corrupted?

Scan disk seemed to give the all clear too. Said that my "volume was clear". I was trying to watch the stage by stage progress (some of it moved pretty fast) but as far as I could tell it was completely clear an every stage. Given the note about the driver display let me also note to other problems that I had had thought were unrelated. (Very) Occasionally when I start up the screen seems quite fuzzy with horizontal lines appearing, a but like when the physical connection between PC and monitor is loose. However when I re-start with no adjustment of the physical connection the screen is invariably back to its pristine best? I had not really noticed any correlation between this rather rate problem on start up and the all too common BSOD. Also I tend to run a lot of tabs on my internet explorer (version 10) typically between 30 and 100 quite often windows explorer will freezae and then start working again, some times it will stop and restart itself but it seems a bit unstable. I hadn't really put any link between this instability in IE10 and the BSODs which is why I hadn't mentioned it before but I mention it not in case.

Don't know if its related but the screen just froze then came back and there was a pop up message in the bottom right saying "display driver stopped and recovered".

This test seems all clear. "Windows Resource Protection did not fid any integrity violations"

OK no pets but will do it every few months as a precaution. Not sure about the win7 disk, I think they did supply it but not sure where it might be will look to hunt it out if needed. Not used any form of registry cleaner that I know of, although I do have NOton 360 that does tune ups from time to time not exactly sure what is included when this happens. Will run scannow and report back