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Surge of BSODs Since Yesterday, Seemingly Random
Hi!
I have a 15" 2010 Macbook Pro with Windows 7 x64 Home Edition installed via Bootcamp (separate hard drive partition). Since yesterday, I've had at least 8 BSODs caused by these files: "ntoskrnl.exe", "bcmwl664.sys", "ntfs.sys", "ndis.sys".
From what I understand, all of these files except for "bcmwl664.sys" are part of the OS so I don't know what to do to fix the errors. "bcmwl664.sys" is a Broadcom 802.11 Network Adapter wireless driver, but I checked and I have the latest driver installed.
I initially was using windbg to analyze the crash dump files when I started getting BSODs, but then I downloaded WhoCrashed and started using it instead.
Since the last couple of BSODs, WhoCrashed seemed to not report a couple of earlier BSODs I had. Initially I had the Network Adapter crash, an Apple Trackpad crash and another Apple driver crash (which I had the latest drivers of as well. Apple Automatic Update didn't give me anything to update), and only a couple of BSODs that were caused by OS files. Now all the BSODs except for the wireless driver one are caused by OS files. Maybe the Apple ones were overwritten by the new crash dumps?
Also, I used to have regular BSOD crashes that appeared as black screens due to the graphics driver crashing. I had the latest graphics drivers, but after searching the internet for solutions, I found that if I manually increased the timeout for the graphics driver to respond, every time the graphics driver crashes, the screen will just go black for a few seconds and then recover (which isn't ideal, but it's better than losing all my data in the crash). The crash dump dated 8/8/12 was one of these crashes. I don't have more of them because I recently wiped my computer and reinstalled everything. The following couple of weeks I didn't have full BSOD crashes (just the video driver failing and recovering).
I'm not sure what's causing the BSODs. I've had two of them while video chatting, one while surfing the internet, one when I was coding in Visual Studio 2010, and one while I was watching a YouTube video, I don't quite remember the details of the others, but I'm pretty sure they were just random things. I hadn't installed any new software before the crashes.
Let me know if there's any other information needed. Please help!