Hardware Help!

[Xplosion]

Hi I'm kinda new here and I need some help. My computer has crashed recently a couple of times and I have no idea what to do! When it crashes it says that there is a kernel data inpage error and that if this repeats that you have a harware problem. Any Ideas Anybody??

I did a search on the internet and looked around in my log files and found that this can be caused by several reasons virus infection, defective hardware, or failing RAM.
Does anybody know a program that does a virus scan on the Master Boot Record? Thanks for your help.

 

[cohen]

What virus software do you have????

Do a scan of your computer and see what you come up with and also try hijack this log..... that may give us some help......

 

[Vizy]

http://www.memtest86.com/

click free download download this sucka and let it run all night. if any Q's post em here

 

[Xplosion]

My Anti-Virus Programs

I have McAfee security but it doesn't work very well, Windows Defender, and I mostly use Spyware Doctor. But I think thats its not a virus but might be my harddisk thats messed up.


Startup Repair diagnosis and repair log
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Last successful boot time: 3/20/2008 5:19:17 PM (GMT)
Number of repair attempts: 1

Session details
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System Disk = \Device\Harddisk0
Windows directory = C:\Windows
AutoChk Run = 0
Number of root causes = 1

Test Performed:
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Name: Check for updates
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 15 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: System disk test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 16 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Disk failure diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 374 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Disk metadata test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 31 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Target OS test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 32 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Volume content check
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 140 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Boot manager diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: System boot log diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Event log diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 499 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Internal state check
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Boot status test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 31 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Setup state check
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 1560 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Registry hives test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 2871 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Windows boot log diagnosis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: Bugcheck analysis
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 1466 ms

Root cause found:
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Bad hard disk: Bugcheck 7a. Parameters = 0xc0402158, 0xc0000185, 0xef2e860, 0x8042bf40.
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[cohen]

Try AVG Free.

 

[oscaryu1]

I agree with Vizy93. Sounds like a memory problem to me. I seriously doubt it's a virus, unless he sees lots of mysterious icons appearing on his desktop, or his homepage changing, his computer acting incredibly slow...

Run Memtest86 overnight. See if you can get the code from a BSOD.

 

[Xplosion]

I also have a 300 gb external hard drive and I was watching movies off it the times the computer restarted.

I could get my hard drive formatted because I was going to anyway. Would that change anything?

 

[J_D]

I also have a 300 gb external hard drive and I was watching movies off it the times the computer restarted.

I could get my hard drive formatted because I was going to anyway. Would that change anything?

Not if its your RAM that is faulting. Use memtest as said above or use Microsoft's memory diagnostic tool. http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

 

[Xplosion]

Memory diagnostic

i have the memory diagnostic program and will run it as soon as possible. If it finds the RAM faulty or not working will getting new RAM fix the problem?http://www.computerforum.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

 

[J_D]

Replacing or removing the faulty ram will prevent any more new problems. However as software has been loaded in to the potential corrupt RAM sometimes you will find that software installed on your PC has been corrupted requiring a reinstall or in my case a Operating system re-install. When my RAM went bad it corrupted many things.

 

[NuTech]

Bad ram can cause your computer to crash. It happened to me. Sometimes the blue screen comes up and lets you know which part of the memory was bad and sometimes it just freezes.

 

[Xplosion]

So I have to re-install my operating system or do I have to find the corrupt programs and re-install them?

 

[J_D]

Have you checked the RAM yet?

 

[Xplosion]

Yes I checked it with windows diagnostic check and some other one and it found no problems.

 

[J_D]

Well we can rule that out then.

Have you done a sweep of your system with anti-virus software?

Other than that back up any important data, and re-install your operating system. If problems persist after that then most likely some other piece of hardware causing the issues