I could have sworn I already posted this, but apparently that got lost. Any help would be very much appreciated! Anyway, the other night, I noticed mozilla firefox was acting funny, it crashed and then I decided it was time to restart the computer. So I did, and then I got the bsod. I was hoping it was a fluke, but it kept coming back. The error came up as stated in the title. I tried running verifier, which singled out "sp_rsdrv2.sys" as an unsigned driver. I eventually tried quarantining this to no avail. After running verifier, the computer would bsod, then try to restart, bsod again, then prompt me to start in safe mode or the last known settings that work. These bsod stated kernel_data_inpage_error and page_fault_in_nonpaged_area.
I tried safe mode (no networking), which was fine, and I was able to use antivir, avast, mbam, and spyware terminator. Nothing showed up from any scan. I ran chkdsk and it detected and deleted a corruption, but then I still got the bsod when not in safe mode.
So then I tried getting back on windows normally and I noticed some strange things after starting up. I get a menu from the mobo connections and it offers a test for the speakers. So for fun, I try the test and the right speaker sounds nice and loud, the left is barely audible- no idea if that has anything to do with the bsod, but maybe it's a driver... I also notice that spyware terminator is blocking "wsimd.sys"- no idea what that is either. I try using ff again, and that has the worst problems. It will crash over and over, but IE seems fine. The one glaring problem there came on facebook, trying to IM someone and seeing that the message is trying to load, then failing, but the other person sees it- does not happen in IE. And on one occasion I saw that my d-link wireless (something... didn't really catch what it said) failed. So, could that be some kind of networking problem? I have no idea- there is so much to sort through.
I am also very suspicious of the RAM. Btw- this is an AMD phenom quad core, that I originally installed 2 sticks of crucial 1gb ddr2 800 and then later added 1 stick of 2gb transcend ddr2 800. I HOPE it is the RAM, but if not, I am at a loss so far. I have the .dmp files, but have not been able to view them yet. I'll post them as soon as I can. Until then, any suggestions? Thanks!
I tried safe mode (no networking), which was fine, and I was able to use antivir, avast, mbam, and spyware terminator. Nothing showed up from any scan. I ran chkdsk and it detected and deleted a corruption, but then I still got the bsod when not in safe mode.
So then I tried getting back on windows normally and I noticed some strange things after starting up. I get a menu from the mobo connections and it offers a test for the speakers. So for fun, I try the test and the right speaker sounds nice and loud, the left is barely audible- no idea if that has anything to do with the bsod, but maybe it's a driver... I also notice that spyware terminator is blocking "wsimd.sys"- no idea what that is either. I try using ff again, and that has the worst problems. It will crash over and over, but IE seems fine. The one glaring problem there came on facebook, trying to IM someone and seeing that the message is trying to load, then failing, but the other person sees it- does not happen in IE. And on one occasion I saw that my d-link wireless (something... didn't really catch what it said) failed. So, could that be some kind of networking problem? I have no idea- there is so much to sort through.
I am also very suspicious of the RAM. Btw- this is an AMD phenom quad core, that I originally installed 2 sticks of crucial 1gb ddr2 800 and then later added 1 stick of 2gb transcend ddr2 800. I HOPE it is the RAM, but if not, I am at a loss so far. I have the .dmp files, but have not been able to view them yet. I'll post them as soon as I can. Until then, any suggestions? Thanks!
