Windows 10: Win10 not booting after multiple BSODs, updated GPU driver and chkdsk

Hi all,

I normally manage to solve things myself, but have become more computer illiterate over recent years and have ended surrendering my home pc to the kids.

The rig was running well, has older hardware, but didn't have any issues running some easy going games and other than the odd random restart (which when I saw it used to say "page fault in a non paged area") it didnt really go wrong. I kept it up to date and other than some steam games, office365 and some other everyday programs it didn't have a particularly demanding set of applications.

Last week I updated it to windows 10. Although its old, the specs looked capable of running it and I didn't want to be left exposed to a gradually weaker windows 7. The upgrade seemed to install ok, took a while as these things do, but worked initially.

I then kept getting BSODs with "critical structure corruption" as the error, it would restart and boot up. It was useable and then would happen again. As I was trying to look in to the issue another BSOD happened, at least this time it also referred to a file WIN32KFULL.SYS. On some further research I tries the following.

Ran Memtest - no issues
Checked physical connections - no issues.
Updated drivers - video card needed one (Nvidea)
Ran chkdsk.

The main issue started when the PC decided to BSOD halfway through a Chkdsk scan. Same error message "critical structure corruption".

On booting again, the same thing now happens, this is after a system restore and also trying to start in safe mode - which fails.

The post works, one bleep. There is then another page of normal boot information and then windows loads with the blue microsoft logo. White spinning disks appear and information is definitely being read from the HDD, can hear it as well as see the HDD light. the screen then goes black for a second before going dark grey, with further spinning disks. After about a minute the disks disappear. However, the red HDD light still flashes and oddly, the numlock on the keyboard seems to turn on and off at random intervals.

It may be new PC time, but was hoping this may be at least salvageable to make it last another couple of months before I have saved enough to upgrade the whole PC.

Im unable to get in to the system to run the log tools. Posting this from my work laptop which I can put stuff on to memory stick if needed,

Thanks for any help!
John

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Frequent BSOD's, possibly MB/GPU related

Have had frequent BSOD's for an extended period of time, which seem to be hardware related seeing as they have persisted through multiple OS installs as well as driver reinstalls. BSOD's occur when browsing online as well as when gaming, with visual artifacting
followed by BSOD when the GPU hits 70 degrees celsius in games, no pattern for BSOD's when browsing online. Error codes have often referred to drivers, page files, threads, many USB related errors, and general exceptions. A full list of dumps from the past
month have been compiled into the rar file available at the following link: http://1drv.ms/1Ri6XWx

Expecting to have to replace my motherboard or graphics card, just not sure which (or maybe both) is the issue. Memtest86 and Chkdsk showed no errors, and substituting RAM had no impact.

Thanks in Advance,

Tom Angus