BSOD 5 seconds after reboot every time

[polive]

It's working fine right now, but about an hour ago my computer BSOD'd about 5 seconds after a restart.

Gave me one STOP: (with the address given)

No other info given. And every time I restarted (like 6 times) it would blue screen again within 5 seconds.

I was able to boot in safe mode and it didn't crash again, so then I ran Memtest 86 from the BIOS on my board. It found one error after about 45 minutes or so.

I don't know if I should be more concerned about the ram or what. I built this comp 3 or 4 months ago, leave it on pretty much 24/7 and have never had a single crash, and I hadn't changed any settings or anything all day.

Anybody know what was causing this?

Edit: All fans working properly, temps are fine. I've backed up some files I want in case I need to reformat or something. .....and I'm scared to reboot it again!

 

[BBA]

The BSOD message that shows bad memory is page fault in non paged area.

I would think, based just on your description, you definitely have some bad hardware. If memtest found anything wrong (which is surprising since it mostly misses 90% of memory problems) it's either bad memory or a bad memory slot on the motherboard (more likely memory is bad)

If you have more than one stick, remove one and see if you can reproduce problems to verify the bad one.

 

[polive]

thanks for that info

will check memtest again after the weekend to see if I can reproduce the problem.

Just ran SuperPI stable at 32M all the way through 29:53 min

have no idea about the restarts from earlier still.