ok wow, there's a couple of things I need to do huh hehe
I did a few more things so thought I'd update the thread.
I did a bit of a google about the 24 error so decided to use the win 7 disc to run the disk check utility.
It did a scan for windows installations and there is only 2 drives, C & D (cdrom). The disc picked up windows being in X: which I thought was odd but figured windows must know what it's doing lol.
I did a memory check and it came up with hardware problems were detected, upon going to desktop the expected icon in sys tray never appeared and pc was running rather slow lol.
Opened command prompt as administrator and tried to run sfc /scannow
It came up with an error system protection something was stopping me running it.
Hmmm.. so I rebooted to safe mode with command prompt and could run it successfully from there.
It hung for a little but then saw it was starting to check, reported no errors.
Went back to desktop, installed a framework update. Avast needed to be updated also, updated that (as to whether that is still problematic unsure, I installed that on recommendations of other 64 bit users)
I reran the memory diag tool from the win 7 disc, no errors this time, and pc never crashed or behaved slowly. I noticed this time when scanning for windows installation that now instead of X it had D, Unsure if that is related.
*wonders if me shaking my fist at it scared it* lol
I really thought it was memory at one point but I ran memtest over and over and over on individual sticks and no error so I'm assuming it's ok. I checked the labels and both are identical so I guess I can eliminate that also.
The NTFS part had me concerned on the hdd but since doing the small update and scannow and no system instability.... for now :/ lol
I shall run it up again tomorrow and leave it idle and see what happens. Before it crashed today it was idle for about 20mins then rebooted itself.
It's 4am currently, and there's alot of information in this thread so I'll read it again tomorrow and hopefully absorb it a bit better lol.
Thank you all for the replies and help, very much appreciated and sorry for my essay post lol.
Edit: just a quick reread then, uninstall all gigabyte stuff, including easy tune? Why is that? Reason I installed it was the usb drivers weren't installed and it recommended to install... List... so i did hehe
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