About a year ago I bought a Toshiba Satellite P70. It was always a bit wonky but it did what I needed it to do. As of late it has been acting terrible with a lot BSOD. I have tried reinstalling from my recovery disks and a complete reinstall from the image on the drive. Nothings gets rid of the problems. What I would like to do to save a lot of time is get a brand new Windows install disk/usb/image and wipe the drives and partitions and start over. I have the Windows License I just need the windows.
Is this something I can do online or do I have to take it back to where I bought it?
hello and welcome to eight forums .you can do what you say but I would advise against it ,it sounds like you need to find whats causing the bsod's ,they are normally cause by hardware not software ,so I will suggest a hard drive diagnosis , get utility from harddrive makers website ,and also ram is a culprit of bsod's ,so I use ramtest86 for those test .
free version from official site ,I use the usb installer one .good luck MemTest86 - Download now!
Ran metest86... everything was fine. The hard drive is a HGST... tried running their windft drive fitness test and it does not find the drive... however... no bluescreens as of yet... this is a new image that has no updates installed yet.
The model number is hts541010A9E680 - Apparently they are a spinoff of western digital. It has 931GB and is a SATA drive. Is their any generic drive testers that are good?
Bad drivers can cause a BSOD, it doesn't have to be a hardware issue. The factory drivers should be fine so maybe Windows update is updating a driver in the back ground. How do I fix DPC Watchdog Violation errors in Windows 8?
Well... the good news is the memory and hard disk diagnostics were fine... so it must be a driver... this will be like looking for a needle in a haystack...