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Fixing Windows
« on: May 18, 2012, 03:38:12 PM »
Okay, I am getting FREAKING tired of this, and I am awfully pissed at the moment (it's hard to make me this pissed, really). Win do'hs is crashing like EVERYTIME I do something important. I recently lost 4 ******ing hours of work on this piece of crap.

Last time it said:
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A device driver that tried to damage the system has been caught.

I had no time to read it all and the .sys file associated. Just found that before it restarted the system.

Also there are dozens of SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION BSODs lately. I don't care about the services in Windows and I am about to fire up an installation of Ubuntu or Fedora on this thing.

What I did to fix the crap:
1. Reinstall Windows from the recovery partition on my laptop (up to 5 times dammit!)
2. Reinstall loads of crap and drivers.
3. Took the system apart to check for issues.

What I am looking to do (sorted on priority):
1. Switch to Linux.
2. Use a Windows CD to reinstall.
3. Return this laptop and have ASUS fix the thing.

My system is the laptop I recently got. This is the ONLY time I bought something from the freaking Internet and it turned out to be AWFUL. I learned to NEVER do that again.

Does anybody around here know how to fix this? It's driving me to the nuts.

Laptop specs:
Model: ASUS X53E-SX1403v
CPU: Intel Core i5 2450M @ 2.50 GHz (turbo 3.1 GHz)
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 3000
HDD: 320 GB
RAM: 1x 4 GB DDR3
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2012, 03:54:47 PM »
You missed a crucial piece of info...

WHICH Windows?

XP? 7?

Also, if you're running Avast, or Bitdefender, try dumping them.
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2012, 03:55:15 PM »
Quote from: K@ on May 18, 2012, 03:54:47 PM
You missed a crucial piece of info...

WHICH Windows?

XP? 7?
Oh, they're all crappy, so I decided to just leave that piece out :P[/lame excuse]

7. Fully upgraded.
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2012, 03:59:03 PM »
Quote from: K@ on May 18, 2012, 03:54:47 PM
if you're running Avast, or Bitdefender, try dumping them.
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2012, 03:59:39 PM »
Quote from: K@ on May 18, 2012, 03:59:03 PM
Quote from: K@ on May 18, 2012, 03:54:47 PM
if you're running Avast, or Bitdefender, try dumping them.
I'm running Microsoft Security Essentials along with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware. Avast was crapping up my display drivers.
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2012, 04:10:48 PM »
It's got to be a driver, I reckon...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244617/en-us

Have you checked the event viewer, to see what's cropped up?

Also, have you ever had SuperAntiSpyware installed.

If so, check the services coz, even though you may have removed it, it might well still be running the service for it.
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2012, 04:19:58 PM »
Quote from: K@ on May 18, 2012, 04:10:48 PM
It's got to be a driver, I reckon...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244617/en-us

Have you checked the event viewer, to see what's cropped up?

Also, have you ever had SuperAntiSpyware installed.

If so, check the services coz, even though you may have removed it, it might well still be running the service for it.
Only found this, for the last crash:

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De computer is opnieuw opgestart na een bugcontrole. De bugcontrole is 0x0000003b (0x00000000c000001d, 0xfffff8000337d2f5, 0xfffff88003bd9d60, 0x0000000000000000). Er is een dump opgeslagen in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Rapport-id: 051812-27518-01.
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The computer has been restarted after a bug check. The bug check is 0x0000003b (0x00000000c000001d, 0xfffff8000337d2f5, 0xfffff88003bd9d60, 0x0000000000000000). A dump has been saved in C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Event-id: 051812-27518-01.

Said file is like 500 MB big, too much to attach here.

No, didn't ever have that program installed.
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2012, 04:21:52 PM »
also check if its at the manufacturs site for drivers maybe missing :P

http://usa.asus.com/Notebooks/
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2012, 04:23:36 PM »
Quote from: The Burglar! on May 18, 2012, 04:21:52 PM
also check if its at the manufacturs site for drivers maybe missing :P

http://usa.asus.com/Notebooks/
Sorry but missing drivers can't cause crashes from it.....

I've already checked the Live Update utility and the eDriver utility from them. Both returned everything was updated/installed for my notebook.
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2012, 04:24:46 PM »
To stop it keep rebooting, try this...

Restart Windows in Safe mode.
Uncheck the option to automatically restart when the computer fails to start. (As it were)
Restart in Normal mode.

You might want to go through each of the damned services, too, to stop any failing ones from forcing the reboot, like a failed RPC used to.
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2012, 04:26:43 PM »
Quote from: K@ on May 18, 2012, 04:24:46 PM
To stop it keep rebooting, try this...

Restart Windows in Safe mode.
Uncheck the option to automatically restart when the computer fails to start. (As it were)
Restart in Normal mode.

You might want to go through each of the damned services, too, to stop any failing ones from forcing the rebbot.
I can boot into Safe Mode after a BSOD, though there was an easier way of doing that from normal mode..
* Yoshi2889 searches the Control Panel

EDIT: Action Center reported this:
http://prntscr.com/9efj5

Which basically says that it's either my RAM, system card(?), CPU or power supply (battery in my case) that's corrupt.
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2012, 04:37:56 PM »
Are you using a D-Link product by any chance?
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2012, 04:38:28 PM »
try if you have an recovery CD, recovery mode when install 7 not saying that it will help but check it you can maybe fix some ting, on the other hand RAM is mostly the cause of this kind of situations
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2012, 04:39:31 PM »
Quote from: The Burglar! on May 18, 2012, 04:38:28 PM
try if you have an recovery CD, recovery mode when install 7 not saying that it will help but check it you can maybe fix some ting, on the other hand RAM is mostly the cause of this kind of situations
Quote from: Yoshi2889 on May 18, 2012, 03:38:12 PM
What I did to fix the crap:
1. Reinstall Windows from the recovery partition on my laptop (up to 5 times dammit!)

Quote from: Project Evolution on May 18, 2012, 04:37:56 PM
Are you using a D-Link product by any chance?
Nope, just a laptop with nothing attached to it.
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2012, 04:43:19 PM »
a recovery partition can also be corrupted so thats why i say try an CD instead ;)
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2012, 04:46:55 PM »
Quote from: The Burglar! on May 18, 2012, 04:43:19 PM
a recovery partition can also be corrupted so thats why i say try an CD instead ;)
My hard disk is fine, it doesn't cause any issues, at least none that are related to this...

I can use a vanilla install from a OEM Windows CD though I don't feel like wasting another 3 hours on doing that...
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2012, 04:48:46 PM »
I can't understand the Action centre thing, Yosh.

Event viewer? Control Panel>System and Security>Administrative Tools>Event Viewer.
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2012, 04:50:57 PM »
Quote from: K@ on May 18, 2012, 04:48:46 PM
I can't understand the Action centre thing, Yosh.

Event viewer? Control Panel>System and Security>Administrative Tools>Event Viewer.
Yeah, that's what I posted earlier.
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2012, 04:54:13 PM »
My main suspicion, at the moment, is RAM.

Tried Memtest?

http://www.memtest.org/
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Re: Fixing Windows
« Reply #19 on: May 18, 2012, 04:59:33 PM »
Quote from: K@ on May 18, 2012, 04:54:13 PM
My main suspicion, at the moment, is RAM.

Tried Memtest?

http://www.memtest.org/
I'll burn a CD or create an USB stick for that in a minute. The Windows memory check doesn't return any errors.
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