When I power up my PC, I get the BSOD. Then I start in safe mode and restart…BSOD again. But I keep going to safe mode then restarting and after about ten times, PC starts normally. Now, I hibernate instead of shutting down, and 99% of the time it will awaken normally; 1% of the time the BSOD again.
When running normally, PC runs good. Using McAfee and scanned with Housecall; nothing found.
Running Vista Home Premium. The point at which the BSOD occurs is when the screen is black, except for “Microsoft Corporation” at the bottom and the status bar with the running green indicator right above it.
Using Vista repair utility found nothing to repair. This problem also causes some updates to fail if the system must be restarted.
I reinstalled Vista without reformatting, did not fix problem.
I needed more drive space anyway, so installed new HD, removed old one, installed Vista from original CD. Same problem.
Where should I look next? Vista memory test found no problem with memory.
MB is Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3P
Thank you for your input!
