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This one is really pissing me off. I had this machine come in exhibiting random blue screens. First thing I did was run Memtest, which revealed a bad stick of RAM. Installed a new stick, ran Memtest for 12 hours to rule out bad memory controller with no red. Went to boot it normally, and it got to the blue logo screen and won't go any further. The numlock light does not respond to presses and mouse does not move. There is zero hard drive activity about 2 minutes after the screen loads.
Booted to ERD and did CHKDSK - which revealed some file issues but no bad sectors. Then did SFC and found a bunch of corrupted files - repaired and rebooted.. Still does it. Same thing when booting to safe mode. Sticks in same place. Only difference is something is driving the CPU temp up in safe mode, because after a minute or two the fan starts ramping up.
Any ideas? Searching only turned up people who ran into this after cloning drives, but those didn't lock up solid (numlock still responded). Nothing was changed other than the bad RAM stick.
Booted to ERD and did CHKDSK - which revealed some file issues but no bad sectors. Then did SFC and found a bunch of corrupted files - repaired and rebooted.. Still does it. Same thing when booting to safe mode. Sticks in same place. Only difference is something is driving the CPU temp up in safe mode, because after a minute or two the fan starts ramping up.
Any ideas? Searching only turned up people who ran into this after cloning drives, but those didn't lock up solid (numlock still responded). Nothing was changed other than the bad RAM stick.