Re: Fresh install, plus personal files, still crashing.

micky wrote:
> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 5 Aug 2020 01:18:54 -0000 (UTC), John
> Doe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> micky <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> My previous thread is pretty far back so to recap, I had had 50+ BSODs
>>> with 5 or more different reasons given.  
>>>
>>> I installed the May update over my current win10 and then downloaded a
>>> whole version and installed that over it.  No change. 
>>>
>>> Debugging was hard because it sometimes crashes before it fully boots
>>> and sometimes within 30 seconds. 
> 
> 30 seconds after it fully boots.   Sometimes longer or I coudln't have
> run the reinstall or reinstall with personal files. 
> 
>>>  Worked fine in Safe Mode
>>>
>>> So I used that source of media, I forget t he name, and re-installed
>>> win10 keeping my personal files and nothing else
>> That is not a "fresh install". You need to start with a formatted hard 
>> drive and install Windows on that BLANK hard drive, with NOTHING else.
> 
> I know it 's not a fresh install, but are you saying that one of my
> files could cause a crash even if it's not part of a any program or
> process that is running? 
> 
> Is there any reason to think it's less likely to crash if those are not
> kept on the HDD? 

Windows has a memory tester. It's likely to need a reboot. Use it.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/91174-run-windows-memory-diagnostics-tool-windows-10-a.html

Alternately, it can be run from the Win10 installer DVD, but that's
not described in the tutorial.

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You can also run Prime95 from a Linux LiveCD.

This is Fatdog.

    Name: Fatdog64-710.iso
    Size: 377487360 bytes (360 MiB)
    SHA1: C79E16FE5BF53EE9A2AE6E9D2F23F51C67CB6468

https://i.postimg.cc/8z9QZHr6/Fatdog64-710.gif

And while I was in Fatdog and using the Browser, I
downloaded a copy of this:

http://www.mersenne.org/ftp_root/gimps/p95v298b6.linux64.tar.gz

    ( from a link on    https://www.mersenne.org/download/    webpage )

Right-clicking the file in Downloads, there is an item in the
menu to unpack it. Stop unpacking it when you see the
"p95v298b6.linux64" folder.

Anyway, that's one of many ways to run Prime05.

When it asks "Join GIMPS" say "No" as you're "Just Testing".

If you press "control C" in the terminal window running prime95,
that should stop it. Select "5" to Exit.

When running the program

    cd Downloads
    cd p95v298b6.linux64
    ./mprime

just accept the defaults by pressing <return> at each prompt.
The Join GIMPS prompt is the one that needs your attention and "No".

The 255 watts of power that was drawing, was more
than normal. Normally, with all cores flat out, the
PC draws 180W. It went up to 255 watts, because of AVX.

Anyway, that's examples of a couple tests.

    Paul