BSOD - Dell XPS 17 (l702x) - W7 Ult 64-bit - Various bug check values

Sounds great! Sort of proves that your hardware is healthy, for now.

You can return to the normal Windows, and enable verifier upon these circumstances. :)

Best Regards,
Frederik.

FredeGail said:

Sounds great! Sort of proves that your hardware is healthy, for now.

You can return to the normal Windows, and enable verifier upon these circumstances. :)

Best Regards,
Frederik.

Okay, thanks, I followed the instructions in the linked document and on first reboot, as Windows was loading, got a BSOD - citing the driver: iastor.sys

After rebooting in Safe Mode with Networking I searched for the driver details and found that it was related to the Intel Matrix Storage Manager.

I searched Dell for the Matrix drivers and since they didn't exist on the Dell default list for my laptop model I removed the application via the Control Panel and rebooted.

Next it got a little further but then another BSOD citing the driver: fltsrv.sys

I booted in Safe Mode again and after researching found this Acronis page: Leftover Drivers? | Knowledge Base

I did have Acronis True Image Home 2012 installed and decided that if it could be the cause of the BSOD problems I would rather do without it, so I uninstalled it and then used the Acronis Cleanup Utility (Acronis True Image Home 2011 Cleanup Utility | Knowledge Base) to remove the offending fltsrv.sys driver.

I rebooted and this time, with Verifier enabled, it booted to Windows okay with no BSOD's - so that's where I'm at - Verifier is enabled and it's up and running again so we'll see how it goes.

Presumably I keep it running with Verifier on?

Cheers,
Shaun

Haha, you pretty much did it all yourself - congratulations. That's exactly what I'd have done. You can leave verifier enabled so we'll be able to flush away all the bad drivers.

If you experience further issues, just upload the dumps and we'll have a look.

Best Regards,
Frederik.

Great, and have you had any BSOD since?