Blue screens and freezing!

Ok I have some pictures (taken from phone as I couldnt printscreen (for obvious reasons)).

First is a BSOD I had last night before I went to bed



Followed by a picture I just took about 30 mins ago



The BSODs are a little different. Could this be becuase of my fresh install/formatting of the drives?

Anyway this last image is of my SSD. I hope it has what you were asking about on it!




Also just to wrap it all up I can no longer actually start up my machine. Im currently using my other halfs laptop and im bloody hating it!!!.

So basically when I start the system up now I pass the BIOS screen and it gets to a black screen with white text at the top stating something along the lines of "prepairing to launch OS". Ive left it for about 30-45 mins and its just sitting on that same screen doing nothing. Seems like it cant access the OS on my SSD which is odd as scandisk said it was all fine.

Anyway if any of you can shed some light here id be forever thankful!

Cheers!
 
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Yea im really thinking its a failed hard drive now.

The question is which one?

Im guessing the fact that I can no longer load the operating system means its the one with windows on it right? Which would be the SSD in the picture.
 
There's an exe on the crucial site to update the ssd firmware through a bookable dvd or stick. You could try that. Again to check if it's anything to do with the mechanical drive just unplug that. As you said you've formatted the mechanical drive, could you install windows on that and check the ssd from there?
 
Morg said:
There's an exe on the crucial site to update the ssd firmware through a bookable dvd or stick. You could try that. Again to check if it's anything to do with the mechanical drive just unplug that. As you said you've formatted the mechanical drive, could you install windows on that and check the ssd from there?
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Ill certainly give it a go. Thanks for the advise.

Do you recommend any programs I should use for checking if its broken or not?
 
ok so ive installed whatever update was on the crucial website and using only the SSD i was able to start windows up (it was working with just hte mechanical too). Im guessing the firmware update at least fixed something tha wasnt right. Now to see if it crashes again!
 
The good news is after the firmware update im yet to receive a freeze or anything else thats nasty. I also figured whilst I was doing that id do a windows repair on the drive using the CD. Strangely it found something wrong with the startup of the OS even though it was a clean, untampered install...

Anyway thats all fine and dandy.

Now my only issue is I have no sound. When I head into my device manager I see this:

 
Idleman said:
So, who`s a happy chappy? :D

Nice to see you eventually got it all sorted. :)
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Im definately a happy chappy. Especially as I don't have to buy anything (which I was expecting id have to!).

Really pleased, thanks all!

I just wish I knew to get the firmware before I started formatting all my games/music off!

Oh well it IS bank holiday.... Guess I now have something to do on it!
 
you should put all your music/games on a secondary internal storage hdd,just keep the most played games on the ssd,then you'll only lose a few things off the ssd should anything happen

glad its working for you now though:)
 
wazza300 said:
you should put all your music/games on a secondary internal storage hdd,just keep the most played games on the ssd,then you'll only lose a few things off the ssd should anything happen

glad its working for you now though:)
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I do but I didn't know which hard drive was screwing up so I did a format on both.

I only use my SSD for windows and essential drivers and programs. Everything else goes on my HDD.

Interestingly since I have started fresh again im having terrible issues with my soundcard.

Constant crackling during music and even worse during graphical strains on gaming (I had the latter previously, just not that often).

I even had a moment where I was downloading an update for one of my games and the sound wasn't working on youtube so I opened iTunes to see if my music would work and all the songs I tried playing were in super fast forward. As soon as I closed the download and restarted iTunes they started playing correctly again...
 
you might have to wait for windows updates to fix anything since you've done a clean install,it usually takes a while for it to catch up
 
if its a fresh install it takes a while for updates to filter through

other than that be sure to update all drivers from your motherboard website
 
yeah it should,but it might need a windows update to stop the noise but updates take time to download/install

im only guessing, it could be something else,driver related idk
 
Ah right. Yea ive installed everything that windows have released.

Im pretty certain its the card as my USB headphones don't have the issue, just my speakers that are connected to the card.

It could have course be my very old speakers but im not finding that to be likely. A new set are on my 'to buy' list though.
 
If you connect your speakers to the mobo and use onboard sound, surely that will tell you whether it`s your speakers or sound card.
 
you could try with onboard sound and see if the noise happens,then you'll have more of an idea that its the sound card
 
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