Is this a hard drive issue????

[MollyLenore]

I have posted this in more than one forum, hopefully someone might know a solution, as I am trying to dodge if in any way possible, the dreaded dragging of this heavy monster to the computer shop
-Computer has been rebooting about once every hour or so for 3 weeks.

-Virus and spyware scans show no signs of any problems (even when scanning with more than 3 programs).

-According to Intel ActiveMonitor software, there are no heat or power issues. When looking inside the computer, everything still looks brand new and all 6 of the fans (including the power supply one) are running fine.

-Making my page file size as large as possible (as my brother suggested) does not change anything.

-When I go to "My Computer", then click the hard disk, then attempt to click "Troubleshoot" for it in the hardware menu, the computer reboots again (this happened 4 times in a row).

-Running "CHKDSK" upon startup completes, but once windows starts, I get a "Blue Screen of Death". I tried doing "CHKDSK" again and once again got the blue screen and here is the error: "Fs_Rec.sys - address F7B7851D Base at F7B78000, Datestamp 367d8361"

-Once the computer got rebooted again, I am now getting a windows error (see screenshot below).

My hard disk is 100gigs and is currently less than 25% full.
If anyone has any idea whatsoever as to what in the world is going on here (even if it may seem like no help but just an idea) please give me your input, because I seriously have tried EVERYTHING.
~Thanks

Error:

http://www.imagehosting.us.com/image.php?id=10951&h=760735

Intel ActiveMonitor showing everything is fine as far as heat and power go:

http://www.imagehosting.us.com/image.php?id=10952&h=215220

http://www.imagehosting.us.com/image.php?id=10953&h=439778

System info:

http://www.imagehosting.us.com/image.php?id=10954&h=901696

 

[ski]

Possible restart causes:

-Everything not completely seated on the motherboard.
Reseat everything.

-Overtaxed or bad power supply
Swap it out with a different(preferably higher wattage) unit.

-Bad memory
Remove and reinsert the memory a few times, try it in different slots, do not use any optimal settings for the memory in BIOS, run Memtest-86, and swap it out with known good memory.
Also, do not mix parity and non-parity memory.

-Bad video card.
Swap it out with a known good card.

-Bad MB.
Swap it out with a known good MB.

-IRQ conflict with a network card.
If no problems show up for the NIC in Device Manager, then remove it from DM, shut down, uninstall the card, and restart.

-Kazaa.

 

[cdogg]

Molly, a good course of action to take in these types of situations is to strip the system to the bare essentials. Disconnect the CD/DVD-ROM drives, take out all PCI cards, etc., until all that's left is:

- CPU
- motherboard
- memory
- primary hard drive
- video card
- power supply

After doing so, see if you can now reproduce the problem. If so, then take a look at the possibilities ski pointed out. As for memory, mixing ECC and non-ECC is fine as long as the motherboard supports ECC. What will happen is that the ECC stick will default to non-parity.

Also, a cheap first troubleshooting step is to get your hands on a spare drive (or use your current one if you don't mind formatting it). Do a clean install of Windows and install the latest Service Packs. Continue to leave the system at its "bare essentials". See if the problem still occurs after a clean install before you go through the trouble of replacing hardware.

If you made any manual changes in your BIOS, don't forget to try resetting it to the defaults.


~cdogg
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[MollyLenore]

Alrighty, thanks a bunch. I will return and post my results when the problem is (hopefully) resovled.
Thanks again

 

[Lemon13]

disable automatic reeboot on bsod and come back with the bsod msg.
check event viewer for errors