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When various things go wrong like that at the same time, it's usually the hard drive that is a bit corrupt.
Do a full disk check. That may fix it.
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Given that particular message about a vital, critical component of Windows, I would check for a rootkit. Microsoft has a tool specifically to check for this kind of problem, which cannot be done...
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I turned off system restores (SSD). It's also hard to say how far back I would have to go. One weird thing is that the errors are intermittent. Like right now I don't have issues with ArcSoft or...
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It's only a 20 to 30 minute job to find out 100% sure if it's hardware or software related.
Considering the time it takes for all the testing, etc, wouldn't this be the fastest way to get conclusive...
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Right click on "Computer" go to "Manage", on the page that opens, go to "Disk Management".
Once you see the rectangle representing your hard drive, right click on the partition you wish to shrink,...
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I see your point, but 20-30 min? How do you shrink your hard disk in this time (preferably a free program) without destroying any data? Can you just boot from the second partition? Do you have to set...
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Thanks for your help w_s!
Next thing I will do as suggested is Memtest86+. Although I already pulled 2 of the 4 sticks and those two remaining ones had been working fine for a couple of years.
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Just wanted to update this, and ask a follow-up question.
So I got tired of trying to figure out and just re-installed the whole thing. Went really well, quicker than anticipated, Windows was...
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I mean the whole OS.
I think the issues are due to hardware... that's why I figured I could perhaps clone what I have and see if the (intermittent) errors disappear.
I tried Acronis Migrate...
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I did a check with HD Tune. The error check was all green, and health status checks out ok.
Thanks! I will try that right now! :worship:
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It's certainly not impossible that it be hardware related, but going by instinct, after having checked the hard drives as you did, then I would reinstall the OS and be pretty darn confident that...
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Did the scannow, came up clean. There are too many different error messages to make me start reinstalling specific dll's.
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To add to this, the "Disk errors" are just notifications that I have a bad sector on one of the other disks. I know, I know.
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There's only one other chance at fixing it in one shot and that would be to go to a system restore back to a point before the problem started.
You could try it and see if you get lucky.
If not, I...
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I'd be willing to bet it's a bad update or some driver conflict or permissions conflict rather than hardware failure since it started happening around the time when you were notified a program...
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Here's another option.
Shrink your hard drive, make the new partition, install Windows onto it to see if it has problems.
If it is fine, then you'll know it's a software problem (damaged OS) and if...
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Ah, I didn't know that was a non-destructive way to do it. I'll give that a try soon.
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Glad it worked out for you.
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Going to send the SSD back for repair... Last night I played around with different programs and stuff, and no more issues. Thanks all! :worship:
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I don't think so. I do it all the time, although I use the Windows System Image and have never used Acronis.
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Thanks! I checked and they are all metal capacitors, none of them look bulgy or leaky.
I think it might have been a flaky hard drive... knocking on wood like crazy.
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This board came out in 2008 or 9. Get a good, bright flashlight and take the side off the case. Examine every capacitor on the board. Look for any and all capacitors that are not flat across the...
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Thank you! I have always done installations from scratch to start fresh. With an "upgrade installation", are currently installed programs retained? Or will they have to be installed again?
The...
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So... yesterday was a good day, hardly any hiccups. Now today I tried to start a movie with ArcSoft and got the dreaded RtlTryAcquirePebLock could not be located error. So I tried with MPC and that...
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Created and booted from CD, did the scan, came up clean.
Will do & report back. Thanks for all the ideas!
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Attaching a few clumsy screenshots (there has to be a better way) of the variety of errors I am getting.
Something's definitely not right. Just got another CCC crash, so that's not resolved...
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Have tried the Windows repair option? Just tossing out suggestions before you jump to reformatting and so forth.
I was going to suggest that also, but didn't realize you had another drive...
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Have a spare PSU you could test with?
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Yup, I do!
So Prime ran for a couple of hours without a glitch or additional errors. This should not only stress CPU and memory, but also somewhat the PSU, no?
Next I will probably copy and...
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Getting back to this, it is a cheapo home-built computer with an ASUS M3A78-EM with the 780G chipset running an AMD 5000+, at least that's what is reported. Not 100% sure since the 5000 apparently...
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The fatal hardware error is what worries me...
It could still be driver related but I think it's time to do all the standard hardware checks if you haven't at this point.
Bare bones, one drive,...
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Having issues with one of my computers. It's used as an HTPC, and like my other computers it runs W7 Ult 64 bit on an SSD.
It started a few weeks ago when I got some really strange error messages....
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Run the system file checker for any missing system files
Elevated Command prompt then...
SFC /scannow
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Well wait...check the Event Viewer (eventvwr) to see if there are any system log messages stating some sort of NTFS or system file errors. Look in some usual places for clues before jumping all over.
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From a CMD prompt, try running: SFC /scannow
You can also try uninstalling the DLL: regsvr32.exe /u ntdll.dl
.... and reinstalling it: regsvr32.exe ntdll.dll
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Do you mean data or the whole OS? If it's just data, you copy it over wherever, then put it back in after installing the new OS on the new SSD.
If you're talking an image/clone, you can do it with...
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Use the Windows System Image. It works like a charm.
Do you need instructions?
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I think "Partition alignment" was the term I was looking for earlier. When cloning from SSD to SSD, do I need to worry about partition alignment?
Acronis finally decided to start up. Copied to new...
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The ASUS M3A78-EM seems to use only solid polymer capacitors, which are very good for lifespan, even in high heat, and unlike the case with wet electrolytic capacitors, this seems to be true...
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Yeah, it's sort of funny that the (your) first response seemed to be the correct one. :lol:
