Random BSOD Apparent Data Loss

[PixlRabt]

Hey everyone,

My pc just crashed at a blue screen, which has been a bit of a regular occurrence although after playing with my page file (the BSOD was a page fault in non paged area) its been much better the last fortnight or so. Excepting the last couple hours, where it crashed twice. This last time, I was not greeted by my familiar wallpaper and desktop icons, but the Windows 10 default wallpaper and no icons. So far after checking through the drive my documents, videos, photos, downloads, and desktop folders have been wiped. The rest of my OS Drive seems fine, even my user folder still has all my appdata from my games and such, and my program files folder still contains all my old programs without any apparent loss. I'm worried though about the data that is missing and I fear that If I restart I'll face further data loss. Any advice would be much appreciated, my data is important to me and this drive being my OS SSD, I haven't got much in the way of backups.

[pwn_intended]

Had this happen with a user at work last week. A re-start brought everything back to normal.

 

EDIT: No solution to the crashing problem though, sorry

[PixlRabt]

2 minutes ago, pwn_intended said:

Had this happen with a user at work last week. A re-start brought everything back to normal.

 

EDIT: No solution to the crashing problem though, sorry

Thank you so much, I'll attempt this now and update this thread with the outcome. Puts my mind at ease that there may be light at the end of this tunnel. 

And that's quite alright, its been an ongoing issue that I just can't seem to nail. So far all I've been able to hope is that replacing the RAM when the funds allow will solve that issue. 

[PixlRabt]

That worked, thanks so much. Timely reminder that redundancy and data protection are needed regardless of what drive you're running. I'll be getting on some backups ASAP I can assure you. 

[Curious Pineapple]

I had the same issue with random RAM issues and Win 10 loading a default desktop. Logging out and back in worked as a fix before I replaced the whole machine

[PixlRabt]

26 minutes ago, Curious Pineapple said:

I had the same issue with random RAM issues and Win 10 loading a default desktop. Logging out and back in worked as a fix before I replaced the whole machine

I'm really hoping a ram replacement will work as opposed to a whole system haha

[Curious Pineapple]

Just now, tharrison14 said:

I'm really hoping a ram replacement will work as opposed to a whole system haha

RAM worked in other boards, being an LGA775 machine, there was little point in trying to find a high-end obsolete board to replace it with, and as I need SLAT to do mobile development with Visual Studio, I just replaced it with an FX-6300.

[PixlRabt]

3 minutes ago, Curious Pineapple said:

RAM worked in other boards, being an LGA775 machine, there was little point in trying to find a high-end obsolete board to replace it with, and as I need SLAT to do mobile development with Visual Studio, I just replaced it with an FX-6300.

Ahh I see, makes perfect sense in your case then. I'm running an Asus Maximus Ranger so if I can avoid replacing it at all I will.