windows diagnostics

I think my hard drive is faulty , i can only open one page at a time . Also i do not have the restore windows option , it was alright last night . Thanks .

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Ok, I dont usually complain about windows, but I have been having issues with BSODs. Now I have formatted, ran memtest, windows memory diagnostics, and numerous other things. But all of the test came back good. I did a chkdisk /f and scan disk, All good. I dont get it before I formatted the BSOD...

I have just built a new computer. And am getting BSODs. Here's my notes on them: Errors Codes are as follows: (I didn't write the codes down the first 2 times) 3rd BSOD (3/22/11): *** STOP: 0x0000007F (0x0000000000000008, 0x0000000080050031, 0x00000000000006F8, 0xFFFFF80003888F72) 4th BSOD...

[EDIT: This issue is solved.] I got this problem this morning and have been working on it for a few hours. I did a lot of Googling to see what might be causing it; nothing seems to be working. It's ethernet, not wireless, and I've had 0 network problems for the half a year since I got the...