[Mark941]

So I'm running a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and I seem to be getting frequent BSODs. They only happen either right at login or while I'm playing a game, and all seem to be caused by something different. Below are the minidumps.

[Mark941]

Another crash, here's the dump.

[Rollin' Rog]

Can you supply some more information about the hardware configuration? What have you loaded Win7 onto? You may be overtaxing the hardware. What is the Windows Experience Index for this system? http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...perience-index




The variety of these faults would point to a hardware issue.

Has the ram been tested? Are you overclocking anything? If stress related, heat could be a cause.

You can test ram by running mdsched.exe and once the scanner has rebooted press F1 for Advanced options and run the Extended tests.

I would not even be satisfied with a "pass" here but would also try Memtest86 to confirm the results, and really you might want to test on one module at a time.

Beginners Guides: Diagnosing Bad Memory

Memtest86 - A Stand-alone Memory Diagnostic

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You should also open the Control Panel > Action Center > Maintenance and look at the Reliabilty history graph and other tools there that might flag persistent problems.

[Mark941]

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU X9650 @ 3.00GHz 7.3
Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 5.5
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 6.9
Gaming graphics 1919 MB Total available graphics memory 6.9
Primary hard disk 39GB Free (78GB Total) 5.9

I'm not overclocking anything, and I don't think it's overheating seeing as a just got a new fan. I also don't think it's memory because XP was working just fine before I installed Windows 7, but I'll run a RAM test and check back just to make sure.

[Rollin' Rog]

Ok, I've looked at all the minidumps trying to find some common denominator that might explain the variety of errors. At first I thought it might be the Nvidia Ethernet driver.

But here is the back trace of the BSOD with the fewest loaded drivers.

My suspicion here is the Sata drivers, as nvstor32.sys is common to all of them, and indeed has multiple identical modules in many. Other drivers get nailed as faulting because of pool corruption that involves them but is not necessarily caused by them.

BUCKET_ID: 0x7E_nt!KiFastCallEntry+f7

Followup: MachineOwner
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0: kd> kd (display back trace)
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for mcupdate_GenuineIntel.dll
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for mcupdate_GenuineIntel.dll
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for PSHED.dll
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for PSHED.dll
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for BOOTVID.dll
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for BOOTVID.dll
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for CLFS.SYS
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for CLFS.SYS
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for CI.dll
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for CI.dll
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvstor.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvstor.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for rdyboost.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for rdyboost.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvstor32.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvstor32.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for amdxata.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for amdxata.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for spldr.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for spldr.sys
Couldn't resolve error at 'display back trace)'

Unstable or corrupt Sata drivers could cause all the varied BSODs, much like bad ram.

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This is from a different BSOD (fileinfo.sys was the flagged culprit) >>

BUCKET_ID: 0x19_3_fileinfo!FIStreamGetInfo+109

Followup: MachineOwner
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2: kd> kd (display back trace)
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvstor.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvstor.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvstor32.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvstor32.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for amdxata.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for amdxata.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for spldr.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for spldr.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for drmk.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for drmk.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for dump_nvstor32.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for dump_nvstor32.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for LHidFilt.Sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for LHidFilt.Sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for LMouFilt.Sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for LMouFilt.Sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for avgntflt.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for avgntflt.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for ssmdrv.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for ssmdrv.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for avipbb.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for avipbb.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for avgio.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for avgio.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvlddmkm.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvlddmkm.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvBridge.kmd
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvBridge.kmd
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for dxgkrnl.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for dxgkrnl.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvmf6232.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvmf6232.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for TSDDD.dll
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for TSDDD.dll
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for peauth.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for peauth.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for secdrv.SYS
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for secdrv.SYS
Couldn't resolve error at 'display back trace)'

[Mark941]

Ok I'm going to bed now, but I'll test it out tomorrow. Thanks for the help.