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Semper · August 18, 2014

Quite simply, i've encountered this ever-infamous BSOD.

I don't currently have the system with me, i'll get you detailed specs when I get off work - System is a Compaq laptop, somewhere between four or five years old. Running Windows 7 Home Premium.

Everything i've known to cause it has not been the fault, so far.

What i've done:

Reboot with last known good settings (succeeded, no change)

Restoring previous version in safe mode (restore failed on three different attempts)

Run a chkdsk with /f on reboot (found errors, fixed them - issue persisted)

Run a primary drive check via BIOS (passed)

Run a memtest (passed)

Run a memcheck (passed)

Run a memcheck via BIOS (passed - gave a reading of only 3.7 million bytes on a four gig system - CPU-Z Reads the full 4096 MB)

Pulled DIMMs, cleaned and swapped them, DID NOT replace - client did not want to invest in new DIMMs

BSOD will happen randomly. system may be stable idle for five minutes, or five hours. May be stable while active much the same as idle. Does not appear to be triggered exclusively by activity, or activity of any particular type.

Any suggestions on where to go from here would be greatly appreciated!

Gung Pow Chicken · August 18, 2014

Look in the system logs, you will find alot more information their. It could also be a virus or malware infection, it's not unheard of for those to cause a bsod.

Semper · August 18, 2014

Look in the system logs, you will find alot more information their. It could also be a virus or malware infection, it's not unheard of for those to cause a bsod.

I'll throw up a syslog here when I get back to the system. It's unlikely that it's malware, This system was previously worked on (less than a month ago), Fresh install of Windows 7. Avast doesn't detect anything with a complete system scan, nor do Windows Defender, Spybot Search and Destroy, Malwarebytes, or AVG.