BSOD, big style

[Chris MacDonald]

Hey guys,

 

Last friday we had a chap come round the office to do all the (legally required) PAT testing, which is testing of electrical sockets, plugs, etc for those of you outside the UK.

 

Anyhow, after all my hardware had been tested I carried on working and had multiple blue-screen-of-death crashes all with the same error code (I forget which now). It happened so much that it made the PC more or less unusable for anything more than 10 minutes at best.

 

I'm not sure whether it was just pure coincidence that the guy tested the hardware and that it all went wrong, or whether there may have been some residual power in something that caused a short.

 

Anyhow, regardless of what caused it I formatted the PC (it had needed doing anyway, so a good excuse to do so) and the first time I logged into a clean windows install it crashed again with another blue screen and different error code, though it is crashing far less frequently. I've subsequently run a RAM test from a boot disk, all of the memory passed, and am currently running an extended scan of the hard drive; due to complete in an hour.

 

I'm expecting the hard drive to be the problem, simply because it is the most likely culprit; HDD's aren't always the most reliable things and the fact that it crashes less after formatting could show that it simply isn't trying to access any bad sectors that it was before when there was more data on it.

 

However I'm wondering if the scan shows up with the hard drive being perfectly healthy; what could be causing the BSOD? I'm guessing a f*cked motherboard?

[Chris MacDonald]

The HDD scan did come back completely clean. Strangely, today I haven't had a single crash; perhaps formatting it did fix it, I just happened to be unlucky enough to have had a BSOD on my first boot into windows? lol not a clue!