Reoccurring BSOD and failure to extract

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I have a problem with my pc, it just give the BSOD at irregular times. I might be busy playing a game, or it can even happen just after booting up. I really do not know what the cause of this is and do not know where to start.

I just formatted and reinstalled windows 7 last week due to this, thinking that it might solve the problem but the problem is continuing. I downloaded the most recent drivers for my motherboard from Gigabyte's site.

When Windows starts up I also get an "igfxext.exe failed to start error". I know this has got to do with the intel onboard graphics, and I have tried reinstalling the drivers, but the problem still persists.

Then I also have a problem with extracting files. It does not make a difference whether it is compressed with .zip, .rar, .ace it always gives some kind or extraction error. I cannot install any program that is going to extract some kind of file as I end up getting errors. I have tested the compressed files on another pc's and they have no problems but as soon as I try to extract any file on my pc it gives an error.

I have a i5 with a GA-H61M-DS2 motherboard, 4 gig of ram

Can anyone please help me with ideas what can cause this.
 
Im using the onboard graphics card, so I have no idea how I will go about to test if it is the graphics card, but if it is the graphics card that somehow does cause the BSOD, why do the pc give problems when trying to extract files from any archive type?
 
Can't extract files? If this is related somehow I would say it could be your HDD or RAM. Faulty RAM does some strange things because everything running on your system relies on it to be accurate.

You can also download and run bluescreenview to check on crash events for any clues. Does the actual bluescreen offer any useful error code or description? If it disappears too quickly do you know you can stop it from automatically rebooting?
 
I have no idea how to stop the Blue Screen from shutting down to fast, so if you can please tell me how to prevent the pc from rebooting to fast.

I will get some RAM tomorrow and test the pc with it to see if the blue screen still appears. Will the faulty RAM also be the reason tht files do not want to extract correctly?

Thanks for the help so far
 
Right click on Computer (or MyComputer icon), Properties, Advanced system settings (on the left), Advanced Tab, Startup and Recovery "settings" button. Uncheck the box that says automatically restart.

If you only have 1 RAM module you can try swap it to another slot as well. Or if you have 2 x 2Gig RAM you can remove one and see, then repeat for the other putting the first module back in first.

You might be really lucky and find a simple reseat of the RAM actually fixes the problem too.
 
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Rudimental said:
Sounds like it could be a RAM problem.
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+1 It sounds very much like a RAM issue.


@Japster,

If you have 2x DIMMS only plug one in at a time and test, if successful swap it with the other one and test again. You can also run something like Memtest etc.
 
Thanks guys, I do have Memtest somewhere and use that and see if it can detect any problems.
 
ponder said:
If you have 2x DIMMS only plug one in at a time and test, if successful swap it with the other one and test again. You can also run something like Memtest etc.
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^this
 
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