Windows 7 win 7 64 bsod - corrupted font?

[123jeff]

• Suddenly BSOD crashes on programs such as outlook 2007 (yes, even in safe mode), word 2007, photoshop & illustrator (if attempting to do anything font related)
• Crashes when attempting to open fonts folder
• Have gotten Bad Pool Header, System Service Exception and Page Fault In Non Page Area BSOD - The computer refuses to write a memdump, and I have checked to make sure that it's supposed to
• Have run sfc /scannow, Chkdsk, startup repair, safe mode, system checks of all nature and nothing's coming back with any error. Also temporarily turned off everything in msconfig startup menu - still crashed.
• Did a restore but problem exists

Trying to find if there's a solution before reinstalling everything
Thanks!

 

[TorrentG]

And as a side note, when you finally discover that your cd/dvd drive does not work any longer, please let us know. It's very easy to fix.

 

[123jeff]

regarding cd/dvd:
yup, sure enough - you're right! I've had this problem before and did the UpperFilters and LowerFilters thing so it's working

Thanks!

 

[123jeff]

Regarding BIOS, it's a HP Pavilion Elite e9180t which seemingly has a limited BIOS from what I can see. But I'm sure I could be missing something obvious.