[Zenoxio]

Ugh, 4 BSODs within the last hour.

It's a Monday and the computer has been off all weekend. I get the feeling this happens more often after the computer has been off.

[EDIT] Make that 5. I have now disabled all non-Microsoft services as you said to try. I'll see what happens.

[EDIT 2] Another BSOD. So disabling all those services didn't help.

[Rollin' Rog]

Have you tried updating the chipset? Dell might have the download, or go to Intel if it is an Intel board.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/default.aspx?lang=eng

I would also uninstall Speedfan since it is useless for you, and I would still be suspicious of the Adobe Type Manager File Driver.

Process running is the Search Indexer -- so you might want to disable that.

[QUOTE
BUGCHECK_STR: 0xC1_23

SPECIAL_POOL_CORRUPTION_TYPE: 23

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 4

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: COMMON_SYSTEM_FAULT

PROCESS_NAME: searchprotocolh



]IMAGE_NAME: memory_corruption

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0xC1_23_nt!MmFreeSpecialPool+29b

BUCKET_ID: 0xC1_23_nt!MmFreeSpecialPool+29b

Followup: MachineOwner
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kd> kv (display backtrace)
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for smwdm.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for smwdm.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for e100b325.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for e100b325.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nv4_disp.dll
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nv4_disp.dll
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for ATMFD.DLL
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for ATMFD.DLL
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nv4_mini.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nv4_mini.sys
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for drmk.sys -
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for dfmirage.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for dfmirage.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for GEARAspiWDM.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for GEARAspiWDM.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for OMCI.SYS
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for OMCI.SYS
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for speedfan.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for speedfan.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for aeaudio.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for aeaudio.sys
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for giveio.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for giveio.sys
Couldn't resolve error at 'display backtrace)'
[/QUOTE]

[Zenoxio]

Indexing service disabled, restarted, BSOD a few minutes later.

Never tried updating the chipset because this computer never had BSODs originally.

[Zenoxio]

Well it seems I have had the final BSOD. I was no longer able to boot Windows, getting the error that windows/system32/config/system was missing.

I did copy that file from under /repair as instructed via Recovery Console and I was able to boot again, but explorer.exe was missing (no start menu), couldn't do anything except launch Task Manager and even if I try running explorer.exe from there it would vanish in a second.