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System crash (BSOD) - ntoskrnl.exe?
A couple of months ago I started getting sporadic system crashes for reasons I didn't understand, so I simply reinstalled Windows and that solved my problem for a bit. A couple of weeks ago, I started having the same problem but I noticed the 0x1E stop code, I didn't know better at the time, so I just did another quick reinstall and that was fine till a couple of days ago, when lo and behold, I started getting system crashes again. This time, there were 0x1E stop codes and 0xD1 stop codes, with a line identifying sortport.sys as the reason for the crash. I'd realized that in Normal Mode, Windows would crash when I opened Google Chrome or when Gmail Notifier initialized (with Chrome as the default browser), so after uninstalling those, I no longer got the sortport.sys system crash. The 0x1E system crashes did continue, but I do get 0xD1 codes still, but WhoCrashed is telling me that ntoskrnl.exe is the reason for those crashes. I doubt it's a hardware problem because reinstalling Windows shouldn't affect the health of my hardware. Unless an update released 2 months ago is conflicting with one of my drivers or a piece of my hardware, and it just so happens to be installing itself (Via Windows Update) a short time after Windows has been installed.
Several other things to take into consideration:
My HDD is split into 2 partitions, the first is for system files, and the other is for user files. I always log in to my Standard user account, and I have to put in a password for any program that tries to alter system files (eliminating the need for a running antivirus).
In Safe Mode, the computer doesn't crash at all, which further convinces me that it's a software problem, because if it was a hardware issue the system would crash all the time.
In Safe Mode, if I started Google Chrome, it would crash due to a driver error (From my experience, it was either storport.sys or nvstor64.sys)
In Safe Mode, if I log in to my Administrator profile, the system crashes with either a 0x1E or 0xD1 sop code.
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Computer Specs.
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium x64
CPU: Intel Pentium Dual Core E5300
HDD: Seagate Barracuda Green 320GB HDD
RAM: 3GB DDR2 PC2-4200 - 533 MHz (2x1GB Kingston + 2x512MB Samsung)
GPU: MSI GTX460 1GB GDDR5 Cyclone
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2
Motherboard: XFX 750i Motherboard
Last edited by Hayorti; 24 Jan 2011 at 13:04.