Blue screen on windows login, every time.

Nick1881 · 9 Dec 2012 at 09:08

Yesterday my PC was working fine, today when I switched on as soon as it got into windows, I got a BSOD. The system rebooted and it happened again, after about 5 in a row I have given up.

The only recent change I made was to update my Crucial M4 SSD firmware, is there a way I can roll it back? I can only see the latest firmware on the Crucial site.

Anything else I can try?

Thanks

snips86x · 9 Dec 2012 at 09:11

Nick1881 said:
Yesterday my PC was working fine, today when I switched on as soon as it got into windows, I got a BSOD. The system rebooted and it happened again, after about 5 in a row I have given up.

The only recent change I made was to update my Crucial M4 SSD firmware, is there a way I can roll it back? I can only see the latest firmware on the Crucial site.

Anything else I can try?

Thanks

Can you see the drive in BIOS?

Ethermaster · 9 Dec 2012 at 09:12

See if you can get it into safe mode so you can use a restore point, when restarting the computer just mash the F8 key. I'm personally not sure if you will be able to roll the firmware on your SSD, but maybe if the way I said at the start at the post doesn't work you could try reinstalling the OS again.

Ethermaster · 9 Dec 2012 at 09:14

snips86x said:
Can you see the drive in BIOS?

He must be able to see the SSD listed in the BIOS if its his main drive as its getting to the windows login screen

Nick1881 · 9 Dec 2012 at 09:14

snips86x said:
Can you see the drive in BIOS?

I haven't looked but I imagine so as it boots from it.

Ethermaster said:
See if you can get it into safe mode so you can use a restore point, when restarting the computer just mash the F8 key. I'm personally not sure if you will be able to roll the firmware on your SSD, but maybe if the way I said at the start at the post doesn't work you could try reinstalling the OS again.

I will try this, it's not going to change the drive firmware though.

I'm running Windows 7 64bit

Confused Stu · 9 Dec 2012 at 09:32

Did you have to change the hard drive controller in the BIOS to update the firmware (AHCI/SATA/RAID)? Did you remember to change it back?

Nick1881 · 9 Dec 2012 at 09:39

No it was set to AHCI and still is, I will double check it.

RJC · 9 Dec 2012 at 09:41

Drop back to IDE mode and see if this helps.

Perhaps try re-flashing the SSD again.

Nick1881 · 9 Dec 2012 at 09:54

I tried IDE mode, it crashed during the Windows logo.

I'm now in with safe mode, seems to be stable.

Guess I will try a restore. Can getting the BSOD error info be of any use?

Nick1881 · 9 Dec 2012 at 10:09

I have restored to a point created on Wednesday 5th, seems ok so far.

Ethermaster · 9 Dec 2012 at 10:49

Nick1881 said:
I have restored to a point created on Wednesday 5th, seems ok so far.

Glad its working again at least