Constant BSOD on boot up

[petrow]

Hello all, hopefully someone can help me out here.

So, I left my PC on for a fair amount of time as I was gaming, break, gaming, break etc. the last time I went back to the PC it had a BSOD. I thought nothing of it and rebooted, only for it to BSOD on boot up. After about 15 attempts of trying, it loaded up to windows. I entered a game and after 10 minutes the system crashed to another BSOD. Now, whenever I try, it comes up with an error and as soon as it comes up with the usual "loading windows" graphic, it crashes, BSOD and back to the start.

I have made sure that the memory is in etc. a red light on the mobo shows up next to the "boot device" "CPU" and "VGA" all go off after a few seconds except the boot device one, which goes off when the windows loading screen appears just before the system crashes.

I have been into the bios and it recognises the SSD is there, so it doesn't appear the SSD has died (perhaps faulty or on its way out?)

Either way, I cannot get the system past the windows loading screen before it freezes, BSOD and reboots.



Overclocked CPU Overclocked Intel® Core™i5-2500k Quad Core (3.30GHz @ max 4.60GHz)
OC Settings Show/Hide
Motherboard ASUS® P8P67 PRO (NEW REV 3.0): USB 3.0/SATA 6Gb/s, CrossFireX™ & SLI
Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card 1.5GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 580 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - DX® 11, 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 640GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD6402AAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
Change to: 120GB OCZ VERTEX 2 SSD, SATA 3 Gb/s (upto 285MB/sR | 275MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk 750GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD7502AAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
RAID NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 12x BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW

Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply CORSAIR 850W TX SERIES (TX850) 80+ ULTRA QUIET PSU
Processor Cooling COOLIT ECO A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER)
Thermal Paste ARCTIC COOLING MX-3 HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Modem NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND



Help :-(

 

[vanthus]

Can you boot into safe mode?if not it does point to a hardware problem,possibly the SSD as you mention.If it boots into safemode try uninstalling or disabling drivers from device manager,graphics card driver first,then see if it will boot normally.

 

[petrow]

I have tried pressing F8 and nothing happens. The BSOD stayed on screen lot enough to give me the "DRIVER IRQL IS NOT LESS OR EQUAL" error, appears it is a HDD failure. I'm done with SSD, that's two failures now. I have no idea where my Windows disc is so will have to find it to reinstall it on my other HDD I guess. Sadly, my SSD was full of pretty important things and I haven't backed up in ages...

The thing is, when my SSD failed last time, it disappeared from my boot device list (completely dead) but it is still an option when I load up now.

 

[petrow]

Update: randomly it has booted up into windows again. Could it be an overheating problem? Last time it worked for about 10 minutes and I having it rebooting again as I type (manual reboot) which is successful. Last time it worked, I left it off for a good 20 minutes, when I retried I left it again for a while.

Further update: the monitor goes black and when it refreshes, it appears the integral graphics is taking over rather than my GTX580 card. It appears that I might have a graphics card failure.

 

[moosEh]

It shouldnt be overheating, if you can actually get into windows grab your Minidump files. C:/Windows/minidump and copy over 5 - 10 of them and email them into [email protected].
We will try to diagnose the problem for you.

 

[petrow]

Thanks, I'll do that ASAP.