Windws 7 won't boot & keeps BSOD'ing

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Had to look at my Dad's PC this morning as recently it just will not boot into Windows, it will load the windows loading screen for about 2 minuts before it will then go to a black screen as if it's going to load then we are presented with this BSOD with the following:

0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x8750400, 0x8750419C, 0x82E47D90)

I have tried googling and it brings back nothing, now what I have tried doing is booting into Windows normally as you know, safe mode and safe mode with networking etc. but to no avail. My Dad also said that if I am unable to boot then just do a re-format and clean install of Windows 7 again. I have tried to load the Windows setup from the disk and it will load the CD up, load the files off the disk and then it will load the Windows screen but then it will go into the Windows 7 setup but it will then just halt with the default Windows 7 background & the cursor still moves but that is it, no HDD activity nothing. I have done what I can I think as I have took out the ram, tried the machine with each individual 1GB ram, removed both GFX cards and tried with only 1 each at a time, disconnected all the SATA's & tested them one at a time, disconnected the DVD-RW too but this is still to no avail, still the problem remains!

My Dad's machine is the following:

Intel Quad Core QX6700 @ stock speed
Asus P5N-D (I have a feeling this may be where the problem lies as I have heard bad stories about this board)
600W PSU
4GB RAM
2 x NVidia GeForce 8800GTX SLi'd
Physx card
1x 320GB SATA & 2x 250GB SATA drives, 1x DVD-RW
Windows 7 Professional 32-bit.

If anyone could give me any help asap I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks all - Liam
 
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I'll have a look shortly, have just managed to reformat the OS HDD on my other machine and I am just re-installing windows on the HDD now.

Edit - I forgot to mention that while I was looking in the BIOS on the machine earlier on, I did load the setup defaults just to see if that would cure the problem but it didn't. So I doubt the ACHI setting may of been changed.

Liam
 
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I had this problem a few weeks ago, I ran a memory diagnostics (located in the system tools or properties). Turned out that one of the sticks of ram was faulty, took it out and got it replaced, no more BSOD.
 
Right i've just put the HDD back in the original machine after a sucessful install of Windows 7 on the other machine with that HDD. Problem still persists... I have also done a flash of the latest BIOS on the motherboard but the problem is still there!

Do you guys think the motherboard is knackered?

Dirty Blade - I have tried each stick of RAM on its own and still to no avail.

Thanks - Liam
 
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How old is the motherboard?

Wait wait, you say you've tried each stick of ram, have you ran memory diagnostics? What if both sticks of RAM were faulty?
Did you also run HDD disk check/error check (whatever its called) ?
 
Dirty-Blade said:
Did you run memory diagnostics with all four sticks in?
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No I can't even get to a memory diagnostic because the boot sequence does not even get that far. My other spare machine is not DDR2 compatiable either so I can't test the RAM in that machine. The problem started a couple of weeks ago where the actual system was running fairly slow / kept hanging & also BSOD'ing a couple of times and he ran a memory diagnostics then and it did not come up with anything or any problems at all.

I've been reading up about the current Asus P5N-D motherboard he has currently got in the machine and from what I've gathered it's not a very well rated motherboard at all :/

He's been meaning to upgrade his graphics card for a while now anyway so he has took the opputunity to order a new motherboard with a graphics card too.

Liam
 
Ok guys I have fixed the problem,

Turned out that besides a knackered motherboard the actual main hard drive that was in use was also goosed as the whole system kept locking up & windows kept stop responding after the Windows set up on the machine with the new motherboard, my dad then told me to just change the drive to his spare 750GB drive and I re-installed Windows again on it and it's been running fine so far.

The new motherboard & graphics card that he got yesterday was an Asus P5QD-Turbo and an Asus HD 5770, so far it runs much better than it did before.

Thanks for all of your help all,

Liam
 
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