and yes, PLEASE, ask for help

thanks so i can run chkdisk from linux command line?

OK ref the S1 only and S3 only statement - fair cop it failed when set to auto, BUT this morning I retested with the 2 sticks of failed DIMM and one failed Memtestx86 straight away and the other...

Hi Axe, thank you for the continued help I do appreciate your time but I do not get unpredictably timed BSODs, I get predictable loops of windows startup sequence trying to repair itself. I looked...

AMD Phenom 9850 quad core 'speed' 2.5 GHz Clk 2 GHz
BIOS ver 1203

VCore 1.404v
3.3v 3.337v
5v 5.026v
12v 12.271v

CPU temp 43 deg C
MB temp 25 deg C

just ripped everything out, and on boot got 'preparing automatic repair' followed by Recovery screen. Repeated with Win 7 dvd in the drive and same output.

ok so that will be usb hub and graphics card (650 ti) and 2 hdd. will give it a go.

Having been grappling with this for over a week I'm ready to reinstall windows 7 64 bit from DVD providing that won't lose my data on two other HDD configured in RAID 1 and pre-crash controlled by...

did 2 passes with no errors this morning on 5.01 will try to do some more but looking for another avenue of investigation.

sorry i've managed to download and run an older version - i am an idiot. I'll kick off 5.01 in a while but as 4.2 has found zero errors is it time we moved on to why nothing windows based (windows...

Going to bed now, not convinced mem is the issue but you are kind enough to ask the questions....

Memtest v4.20 currently on Test 8
Pass complete, no errors, press Esc to exit*****

will reply...

ignore my last your link has bootable iso sorry.. will take a while til I can get access to another machine to prepare a disk

how do I run that please Axe?

as I cannot log into Windows I cannot show you the results all I can do is report that it had found no errors just before it completes and reboots

it has been doing extended tests since last post and is just coming up to complete the 5th pass no errors thus far

Just check on the test progress:
...

Ok I'll set it up to run a few passes this morning and post back around lunchtime.

Hi,

If I boot from that CD this is what we get:
press any key to boot from CD ROM
blue windows logo (no other text)
8 minutes+
hard drive light stays lit solid throughout
CD rom data light...

thanks very much Axe0 for taking the time to reply on this - much appreciated :-) unfortunately I couldn't get Kyhi's WinPE to run so the answer is no I'm afraid.

Hi I really hope some kind and clever soul can help me - as I've been grappling with this issue for a week now and am at my wits end :cry:

System: PC. Motherboard:Asus M4A78 Pro, CPU: Phenom 9850...