Bsod while exiting game

Ok, so I exited a Team Fortress 2, and all of a sudden, I get hit with a bsod, and restart. My laptop hasn't exactly been performing up to par on games, and I'm not sure if this is contributed to my connection or what. I copy and pasted this. First bsod on this system though, not very old, just over a month.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 44
BCP1: FFFFFA8009503710
BCP2: 0000000000000EAE
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_1_7600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\082910-30388-01.dmp
C:\Users\Gibbs\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-74396-0.sysdata.xml

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If you guys need to know more, or there is something you need to know, I'll be more then happy to do my best to fill you in. I REALLY want to know what the issue is/was.

Hi,

Please follow these instructions: https://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-d...tructions.html

Attach the .zip file to your next post in this thread.

Regards,
Reventon

Ok, I followed the link and the instructions. Running the program as an administrator suprisingly didn't work, opened as usual did however. Comodo popped up, and I allowed it of course. I ran the performance report twice, the warning of missings events went from 16% to 20%... which seems odd. Hope this helps, if you need more data, please let me know.

EDIT: Didn't see you there cluberti

Hi,

The cause of this one appears to be fairly straightforward.

pneteth.sys is blamed; I believe it is part of PdaNet Broadband tether - however usually when we see drivers blamed they are out of date.

Code:

pneteth.sys  Tue Aug 17 06:55:52 2010 (4C6989B8)

The above is very much up-to-date.

At this point you have 3 options.

1) Uninstall

2) Keep running it and hope it doesn't happen too often.

3) Contact the software manufacturer and work through the problem with them (as because they have the source code of the driver they can actually see what the exact problem is and hopefully how to fix it).

Regards,
Reventon

BUGCHECK SUMMARY

Code:

Built by: 7600.16617.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100618-1621
Debug session time: Sun Aug 29 18:12:30.678 2010 (GMT+12)
System Uptime: 0 days 2:10:15.601
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for pneteth.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for pneteth.sys
Probably caused by : pneteth.sys ( pneteth+1c87 )
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR:  0x44
PROCESS_NAME:  svchost.exe
Bugcheck code 00000044
Arguments fffffa80`09503710 00000000`00000eae 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000
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Hmm, I was just running PDAnet and testing it to see how well it did. I have WAN and WLAN in my house, also, I can use wifi over my Droid 2. So you guys are saying that this issue miht have been caused by PDAnet? It's my first bsod on this system, and I've only ran PDAnet a couple times.

Gibbsinator said:

Hmm, I was just running PDAnet and testing it to see how well it did. I have WAN and WLAN in my house, also, I can use wifi over my Droid 2. So you guys are saying that this issue miht have been caused by PDAnet? It's my first bsod on this system, and I've only ran PDAnet a couple times.

Yep. PDAnet was explicitly mentioned and given that it was your first BSOD I believe it to be the cause (if there was another cause such as the wireless driver I would expect more than just one BSOD).

reventon said:

Gibbsinator said:

Hmm, I was just running PDAnet and testing it to see how well it did. I have WAN and WLAN in my house, also, I can use wifi over my Droid 2. So you guys are saying that this issue miht have been caused by PDAnet? It's my first bsod on this system, and I've only ran PDAnet a couple times.

Yep. PDAnet was explicitly mentioned and given that it was your first BSOD I believe it to be the cause (if there was another cause such as the wireless driver I would expect more than just one BSOD).

That can cause my system to bsod? I didn't know that, well, I won't be running PDAnet then, if I have another problem I shall return. Thanks.

If you do want to keep using it it may be worth investigating whether there is a newer update - as cluberti said:

cluberti said:

There have, however, been some reports of a bad build of PdaNet out there, and replacing it can fix issues with bugchecks pointing at this driver, so it's worth contacting the vendor to see if you've got one of those "bad builds" and get the latest one

Well, I just downloaded the driver... so I don't know. But it's not necessary for me to use, I can use alternatives.