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... on my signature system. It has been 100% stable since I swapped out my overheating GFX cards and replaced with the HD6990.

Now this!

I was just idling in desktop browsing websites then the screen went all rainbow colourful lines horizontally across the screen for a millisecond, then black. Then the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and Stop 0x000000A message BSOD appeared.

I cannot load back into Windows - it simply hangs when I either try to repair startup files or try to boot straight into Windows (stops on the Windows 7 screen with no animated colours).

Any ideas? It could be anything really - drivers, motherboard, RAM, CPU, GFX. I am tempted to think it could be to do with the OCZ Vertex 2E Bigfoot SSD drive that the OS is on?
 
Faulty graphics driver or maybe ram

Can you boot into safe mode?

Since it is since you changed the graphics card I'd say driver
 
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Do you see any artifacts during the boot process?

If your overclocked put back to stock, also run mem test to double check your ram.
 
RJC said:
Do you see any artifacts during the boot process?

If your overclocked put back to stock, also run mem test to double check your ram.
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Ironically I have new RAM coming tomorrow - was going to go overkill with 16GB, looks like I might have to alter that!

I am not overclocking the CPU.

I may have to get my Win7 disk and boot from that to repair the OS and see if I can boot from that.

The system had been on all day from 9am doing a range of tasks - from Portal 2 through to youtube vids and coursework.
 
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download memtest86+ and burn the iso to disk then boot from it and check the ram
Just to make sure that is not the issue
 
Have you got another graphics card to try? Your 6990 could be faulty. If you can't get into safe mode it's not a driver issue.
 
The GFX has been great though - aside from this one millisecond long colour band there was no other indication of any issues. (it also has no been unlocked or bios swapped either).

I have attempted to boot from the Win7 DVD and I cannot do this- it just hangs on the 'Windows Loading' screen after the pre-load progress bar along the bottom has reached 100%.
 
I've reset CMOS jumpers and been into BIOS to verify settings. Quite unusual:

My boot SSD (Vertex 2E Bigfoot) is not shown on the SATA Config page...
My Kingston SSD and Optical Drive are.

Yet, in the boot options menu my Vertex is there.

I've swapped my Boot SSD over to SATA6G port 2.

Will run Memtest86 now.
 
Holy ...

Just booted up into Memtest and greeted with a screen of increasing errors (currently on test 5 and it's clocked up 481000 errors so far).

My question is why could they be failing? I ran Memtest about 2 weeks ago for nearly 24hrs straight and it was fine.

Also, perhaps co-incidence or not, but I lost a 2yr old SSD when I created this system, is it possible that the Motherboard might be defective in some way???

VERY good call with memtest. But now the question as to how/why it happened when the RAM was OK.
 
there you go then mate Bad Ram
can you boot into windows now with it removed?

Ram can just fail at times i have had this with many TOP brands ie corsair dominator 1066 ddr2 ram i have had to send back as it works fine then suddenly stopped working and errors everywere so back it goes (twice with same set)
And it wasnt Overclocked and was set at correct Vs and timings but yet still failed on me,
 
Happened to me the other week aswell, with some new Corsair dominator ram had the same error turns out one of the sticks was faulty.
 
I've normally only had dead sticks on arrival and dead DIMM slots, this is the first time i've ever had Corsair die on me.

I'm guessing if something is going to fail, it is going to happen during some initial period of use which could explain how it passes memtest for 24hrs straight, then 2 weeks later have one stick just die.
 
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