My main machine crashes or freezes 10 times daily, just from watching a YouTube video or otherwise.

So today I bought a new motherboard and CPU.

Since then, it gives a blue-screen-of-death on every boot.

It shows the menu when I can select Windows XP or Windows 7. Neither work.

I select Windows 7. It asks if I want to repair or start normally.

If I pick the normal start, the Windows 7 loading screen appears and crashes at exactly the same time each time, after about 3 seconds.

If I try to repair the menu to repair appears but both the mouse and keyboard stop responding.

If I boot from the Windows 7 disk, as soon as it starts asking for the language etc., mouse and keyboard shut off.

I have already reset the CMOS.

In BIOS and in the DOS-like screen where I select the OS to load the mouse and keyboard are fine. In BIOS I can see all devices are connected and I know everything else is connected correctly (LED's, fans, power/reset buttons, etc.) because all fans are working, all LED's are showing at the correct times, and the power/reset buttons work.

It recognizes and displays the names of my mouse and keyboard, so although they stop working whenever Windows tries to give me anything to do they are not the problem.

I am fairly sure this is a software problem, but I can't do anything to update drivers or even reformat because every time I get an input screen from Windows my mouse and keyboard shut off.

Any ideas?

L. Spiro

I got my mouse and keyboard back by plugging them into the new USB 3 slots. One obstacle down.

Now I am trying to repair etc. At least it is not crashing during this process, so the motherboard and chip are fine and correctly connected.

It's surely related to drivers etc.

L. Spiro

Yes, its not often that you get to change half the PC and your Windows install keeps on runnin'.

Windows XP would BSOD if you dared to change anything like the CPU or the motherboard.

Is the CPU and chipset from the same company? (ie, changed Intel for another Intel, AMD for another AMD). My previous Windows 7 install survived changing a Core 2 Duo for this Core i5 (mobo + ram included), but I'm not sure that it can "survive" a change from say, an Intel CPU for an AMD CPU.

I'd try with a full OS reinstall anyway.

I've had those driver problems, they're nasty!

Around three months ago, my PC got a BSOD while watching Youtube, and got this repetitive sound (Scary the first time), so I couldn't turn it off, so I took the plug out and the battery. After that I was basically just staring at it for 2 minutes, wtf just happened?

So I continued to use it afterwards (it turned on fine), used it for days, but avoided Youtube at all costs (Either it's a flash bug that messes up system, or it causes a kernel panic ). Then one late night, I was playing a game, Payday, BAM! BSOD. Shut it off, walked for a while, turned it on, typing password... BSOD. The problem is that it was weeks ago since I created a backup of all my files, and I can't access the system. Though later on I realized that safe mode was pretty stable, so it was either faulty hardware (In safe mode the e.g. CPU usage is much lower) or some kind of driver, that wasn't loaded in safe mode.

After hours of surfing on the internet, I finally found something that might work (Tried a thousands of things before), a full system scan reporting whether there were any violations on the system, it found some few. So for a few days it worked, just coding and stuff, and bam goes the BSOD.

Then after some few other hours of thinking, I found out that BitDefender(My antivirus) have had some problems on some systems.

http://www.bitdefender.com/support/incompatibility-with-multi-path-i-o-driver-after-upgrading-to-bitdefender-security-for-file-servers-v3-5-841.html

And I came to the conclusion that it was the drivers fault, as when I loaded safe mode up, no bsod occurred, because of this driver not being loaded, though I still don't get how on earth they don't fix this problem, how can you release a piece of code that's made to protect your pc, crashes your pc.

At the last minute, because the OS got corrupted to some point (After several BSODs), and multiple re-installations of the BIOS, I chose to go down to the repair shop, but as suspected, they didn't know what was wrong, and just re-installed the OS. (Though they were able to rescue my personal files and all hard drives, but they messed up some data, HD:F was HD:D, which was a mess with include directories when coding).

And now I'm running with a fully stable system, and no BSODs since then.

BSODs are really a pain in the ass... And when alone in the dark playing or watching a movie, you can get scared, really scared, I almost fell off my chair.

Ohh. BTW. Since then I am for some reason really scared to play any Payday, it might just have been a coincidence, but I'm not feeling like taking a chance, so whenever a friend asks me to try it, he tells me how great it is, and I will give him a long and descriptive answer explaining why that won't happen.

EDIT: My point is, try reinstalling the OS, it worked for mine (EDIT: Same as TheChubu)

-MIGI0027 (BSODs ain't no joke!)

I'd try with a full OS reinstall anyway.

This.

It's always good to go with fresh install after a major hardware change. Windows doesn't handle change very well.

I've basically decided to go with a full reinstall, but now my problem is I can't find my Windows XP disc.

It should have been right next to my Windows 7 disc, and I only reinstalled everything last year, never touched either disc since.

Well, I can do a Windows 7 reinstall now to get it at least running (I can't stand this laptop much longer) and then endure the burden of reinstalling both Windows XP and Windows 7 later when I find the disc. You know. Because you have to install newer versions of Windows after older versions.

Sigh.

L. Spiro

You might also want to try downloading and booting to a Linux Live CD to make sure the mouse/keyboard problem isn't Windows related.

Thank you but I've already installed Windows 7 again and things are all running fine.

Just have a million drivers and software applications to install now.

I always keep 4 partitions. 2 of them are 100 gigabytes each and hold my OS's.

The other 2 are 900 gigabytes each and one holds raw data such as movies and my programs, while the other holds installed applications and their installers.

A lot to install, but no big deal since I have the installers for everything.

L. Spiro

[EDIT]

And though it may be premature, it seems as though the new hardware has solved my previous problem. I have little faith in my old PC to have been able to watch YouTube while installing things in the background (Windows Update crashed me too back then).

I'm really pushing it to the limits that would almost certainly crash me before but it is holding up fine.

The total cost of this hardware is around $6,000, so for me to be unable to watch YouTube videos or play Battlefield 3 (which was a gift from my mother) is absolutely unacceptable on any terms.

I will never look at my case without suspicion, but perhaps now it can gradually gain my trust again.

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The total cost of this hardware is around $6,000, so for me to be unable to watch YouTube videos

6000$ That's a lot, what's the specs?