So this all started yesterday morning. I went to Windows Update and it started to update and before I could see what happend my PC hard crashed with a "Paged fault in a non paged area" and then the PC would not start up again.
Initially I thought it had to do with an upgrade I did to Samsung Magician, So I went into safe mode and uninstalled that, and then no luck on the reboot. Do note it started up fine in safe mode and ran fine there.
Then I went into recovery and removed the most recent updated. Again no luck. Same BSOD.
I then started thinking I had a disk error so ran chkdsk, but that came back with no errors. Tried to restart with no luck
I then ran sfc /scannow and it found a couple fixes and added them, but again when I tried to restart it bsod'd with the same error.
I then rolled back to my prior restore point from a week ago but the exact same error.
I then ran a memory check with memtest86 and got no errors. Same error on reboot.
I then ran Prime95 and ran several CPU tests for several hours and had no errors. Rebooted again and the same error.
I've been thinking about getting a new SSD for a bit, so I went out and picked one up and started a new install after backing things up in safe mode.
I then put in the new drive and started the install. I did the install from a fresh set of data off a USB thumb drive. Things start off fine but as soon as I get around the point where I enter my Microsoft account info it crashes. Sometimes before I get it
entered, sometimes shortly after, but it always crashes.
At this stage I tried uninstalling several things. Unplugged most everything except a monitor. Did not start taking out graphics card or sound card yet. But nothing helped. Did several installs here.
Next I decided to do an offline install and unhooked my network cable and did another Windows install fully offline. It ran to completion with no errors. I did several reboots and it worked just fine. I then connected my Microsoft account and went into windows
update and started it and it crashed within 30 seconds and is BSODing again.
I'm at a complete loss here. The machine is a bit older. But still runs very quickly for what I need. Really not sure what to do next but it really feels like something being updated in Window's Updated is causing it to fail.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.