I don't know what is going on with my pc, it randomly restarted while I was attempting to check my email and upon said restart I got my first bsod. Now it always goes to bsod when I try to boot it. Safe mode either gets hung up on crcdisc.sys or loads and then crashes with the same bsod within a minute or so. The bsod I am getting says, ci.dll page fault in nonpaged area stop: 0x00000050 ci.dll - address collecting data for crash dump... I'm running vista ultimate x64 my mb is a gigabyte ga-ep45-ud3p I have a sapphire ati radeon 4870 and 2 sticks of ocz reaper ram (2 gigs each) a ucp 700w power supply and western digital 6400 aaks hard drive I've tried booting into ubuntu from a usb stick, that doesnt work either. I was able to use ubuntu to run memtest and my ram passed with no errors. I'm pretty sure this must be a hardware problem, I have not recently downloaded any programs, udpated drivers or anything like that. Any advice on this is much much much appreciated as I take online classes, the semester just started and I loathe this laptop I am using. Oh and I cleared the cmos and flashed the bios as well.
yes it passed memtest. I made a repair disc and tried system restore and the option to fix problems preventing boot, it couldn't find any problems. I now have it up and running using ubuntu from a cd. so I actually have the the .dmp file. I'll attach it. I do not have the os cd/dvd.
Okay, the OS driver ci.dll was cited in your dump as the cause. This is a OS driver and OS drivers are usually too general to be of much diagnostic help. However, check this link out (ignore the adds for repair scans) for information purposes: http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-debugging/100251-random-crash-ci-dll.html One of the responders in the above link is Jonathan King who use to contribute here on occasion.