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BSOD on cold start – abnormal windows shutdown
About a month ago I started getting a BSOD when I first turned on the computer that day. After the system collected the event data and restarted, everything ran fine from that point forward. Then, a few days ago, the computer suddenly only would boot to a black screen.
Looking over the system, there appeared to be several corrupt files which even though I repaired them with SFC and DISM, still would not allow the computer to complete a full boot.
So, I reinstalled Windows 10 Pro, reinstalling all the latest drivers and all the windows updates. All was fine for a couple days, but now the BSOD’s have returned (one yesterday, one today).
They only happen on a cold start up, and looking at the Reliability Report, it appears that 3 errors occur:
- Windows was not shut down properly
- Windows stopped working
- Shut down unexpectedly
The dump files are attached.
I’ve run HD Tune with no errors (below) and ran FurMark for 30 minutes without issue and GPU reaching a max temp of 71C. I ran the memory tests several times for about 30 minutes with no errors. Running Prime95 also seemed to be fine, the CPU reached 42C but seemed otherwise unaffected.
I ran ChkDsk – no errors found, and checked the drive status in Samsung Magician and SMART data and overall health shows fine.
The SSD has the latest firmware from Samsung, and I'm running the latest NVidia drivers. All ASUS drivers and bios updates have also been installed.
Once the system is up, it runs seemingly flawlessly all day long, handling everything from Photoshop to video intensive gaming.
I did notice in the reliability report though that Google Chrome has several entries where it says it ‘Stopped Working’ – which seem to coincided to my closing the browser, so I’m not sure if this is normal misbehavior on Chrome’s part or if its related some how.
I’m at a loss what to check next and the last thing I want to do is just start randomly replacing hardware.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Hardware List:
ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
Video: EVGA GTX 650 FTW
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
Power: Rosewill 750w
CPU: AMD FX-8320 (not over clocked)
Memory: Single Corsair Vengeance 8 Gb at 1866 MHz
HD Tune: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250G Information
Firmware version : EMT02B6Q
Serial number : S21NNXAGA59341B
Capacity : 232.9 GB (~250.1 GB)
Buffer size : n/a
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-0 - SATA II
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 6 (Ultra ATA/133)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 6 (Ultra ATA/133)
S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : yes
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: no
Power Management : yes
Advanced Power Management : no
Power-up in Standby : no
Security Mode : yes
Firmware Upgradable : yes
Partition : 1
Drive letter :
Label :
Capacity : 100 MB
Usage : 0.00%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : Yes
Partition : 2
Drive letter : C:\
Label :
Capacity : 237923 MB
Usage : 37.95%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : No
Partition : 3
Drive letter :
Label :
Capacity : 450 MB
Usage : 0.00%
Type : unknown (27h)
Bootable : No
HD Tune: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250G Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 331.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 383.3 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 353.7 MB/sec
Access Time : 0.1 ms
Burst Rate : 166.8 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 5.2%
HD Tune: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250G Health
ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 100 100 10 0 Ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 98 98 0 6957 Ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 98 98 0 1027 Ok
(B1) (unknown attribute) 97 97 0 49 Ok
(B3) (unknown attribute) 100 100 10 0 Ok
(B5) (unknown attribute) 100 100 10 0 Ok
(B6) (unknown attribute) 100 100 10 0 Ok
(B7) (unknown attribute) 100 100 10 0 Ok
(BB) (unknown attribute) 100 100 0 0 Ok
(BE) Airflow Temperature 70 58 0 30 Ok
(C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 200 200 0 0 Ok
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 100 100 0 0 Ok
(EB) (unknown attribute) 99 99 0 68 Ok
(F1) (unknown attribute) 99 99 0 -202545463 Ok
Power On Time : 6957
Health Status : Ok
HD Tune: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250G Error Scan
Scanned data : 238379 MB
Damaged Blocks : 0.0 %
Elapsed Time : 13:01