Need help fixing a bsod issue

Alright
Do the hard drive tests and let us know the results. We'll then go for driver verifier.

bradscoolio said:

Should I have run the verifier with windows drivers check? the tutorial told me not to

Do as the tutorial says

It's pretty rare that Windows drivers cause any crashes, only run Driver Verifier on the non-Windows drivers, that is where you usually find the issues.
Even if you find a bad Windows driver you have to run the SFC scannow command to fix them, if that doesn't work, re-install windows.

Windows debugger doesn't usually tell you exactly what the cause is, it will just give you clues.

bradscoolio said:

I need to replace "ntoskrnl.exe", "win32k.sys" & Ntfs.sys from my recent bsod's. How would I go about replacing them?

When the Windows debuggar or any other debuggar app (Windows debugger is by far the best) tells you the probable cause is the Windows kernel, it is usually not the cause. If a debugger can't identify the cause it will blame the closest associated files.
So you need to dig further in search of the real cause.

Did you run the System File Checker?
Run it three times with re-boots after each run.

Your dump file in post #17 is an old one from 22 August.
Did you have a recent crash?
Post the full BSOD report when you have a new crash, we need all the information in those file to find the cause.

Run Driver Verifier, this is the best way to find the driver issues.

Your most recent crash.

Code:

STOP 0x00000019: BAD_POOL_HEADER
Usual causes:  Device driver
PROCESS_NAME:  Skype.exe - Not necessarily the cause, may be the result of the crash.
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0x19_3_nt!ExDeferredFreePool+a53
FOLLOWUP_NAME:  Pool_corruption

Have you updated all your drivers from the Asus support site?
Install all drivers with newer dates.

Driver info:

Code:

GEARAspiWDM.sys Mon May 18 20:17:04 2009

- This driver is out of date and known to cause problems with Windows 7. Uninstall iTunes for testing, you can re-install and test for stability after your system is stable.

Your dump from August.

Code:

STOP 0x0000003B: SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
Usual causes:  System service, Device driver, graphics driver, ?memory
Cause: This error has been linked to excessive paged pool usage and may occur due to user-mode graphics drivers crossing over and passing bad data to the kernel code.
EXCEPTION_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at 0x%08lx referenced memory at 0x%08lx. The memory could not be %s.
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0x3B_nt!CmpGetNameControlBlock+12e

Which Nvidia graphics card driver are you using?
Install the current driver from Nvidia and test, if still unstable then download an older driver and test.
Be sure to run Driver Sweeper after you uninstall any graphics driver, re-boot, then install the new driver.
Your graphics card is known to be possibly unstable, run a different graphics card if you have access to one, for testing.

Do you have any USB devices or memory cards connected to your System?
If you do remove all but keyboard and mouse, check for stability.

Update your Razer mouse driver, these are known to cause issues.

System Event Logs:

Code:

Event[34859]:
  Log Name: System
  Source: Disk
  Date: 2012-08-05T18:49:50.298
  Event ID: 7
  Task: N/A
  Level: Error
  Opcode: N/A
  Keyword: Classic
  User: N/A
  User Name: N/A
  Computer: bradscoolio-PC
  Description: 
The device, \Device\Harddisk6\DR7, has a bad block.

Event[34866]:
  Log Name: System
  Source: Disk
  Date: 2012-08-05T18:51:34.730
  Event ID: 7
  Task: N/A
  Level: Error
  Opcode: N/A
  Keyword: Classic
  User: N/A
  User Name: N/A
  Computer: bradscoolio-PC
  Description: 
The device, \Device\Harddisk6\DR8, has a bad block.

Did you see this when you ran Seagate Seatools?
Test you Western Digital HDD with Western Digital Lifeguard – Quick Test and Extended Test

Run Seatools on your Toshiba HDD if needed.

Code:

Event[10581]:
  Log Name: Application
  Source: MsiInstaller
  Date: 2012-08-31T17:00:13.000
  Event ID: 1035
  Task: N/A
  Level: Information
  Opcode: Info
  Keyword: Classic
  User: S-1-5-21-221903822-3910319110-2911743886-1000
  User Name: bradscoolio-PC\bradscoolio
  Computer: bradscoolio-PC
  Description: 
Windows Installer reconfigured the product. Product Name: Skype Click to Call. Product Version: 6.2.10687. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: Skype Technologies S.A.. Reconfiguration success or error status: 1625.

Update Skype to the latest version.

Type 'Powershell' in the start menu search and run Powershell as admin.
Copy and paste all the code into Poweshell:

Code:

# *******************************************************************************
# Places 3 files on your desktop:
# 3RD PARTY DRIVERS.TXT, 3RD Party DRIVERS.CSV, DRIVER INFO.CSV.
# *******************************************************************************

# Create an array of gwmi objects
$a = gwmi win32_systemdriver | select name, description, state, startmode,pathname

# Create an array of pathnameobjects
$b = $a | foreach { (gi $_.pathname) } | 
select creationtime, lastaccesstime,lastwritetime, basename, directory, name

# Create an array of FileVersionInfo objects using the array you just created
$c = $a | foreach { (gi $_.pathname).versioninfo } | 
select companyname,filedescription,filename,internalname,productversion,fileversion


# Create an empty array to hold objects
$arr = @()
$i = 0 # initialize index
ForEach ($aobj in $a) {
$obj = new-object system.object # Create a new system object
#  add members using the names and values from the two arrays of objects
$obj | add-member -type noteproperty -name Name  -value $aobj.name
$obj | add-member -type noteproperty -name State -value $aobj.state
$obj | add-member -type noteproperty -name "Start Mode" -value $aobj.startmode

$obj | add-member -type noteproperty -name "creationtime" -value ($b[$i].creationtime)
$obj | add-member -type noteproperty -name "Created" -value ($b[$i].creationtime).toshortdatestring()
$obj | add-member -type noteproperty -name "Last Accessed" -value $b[$i].lastaccesstime
$obj | add-member -type noteproperty -name "Last Written" -value $b[$i].lastwritetime
$obj | add-member -type noteproperty -name "Directory" -value $b[$i].directory

$obj | add-member -type noteproperty -name "Company Name" -value $c[$i].companyname
$obj | add-member -type noteproperty -name "Description" -value $c[$i].filedescription
$obj | add-member -type noteproperty -name "File Name" -value $c[$i].filename
$obj | add-member -type noteproperty -name "Internal Name" -value $c[$i].internalname
$obj | add-member -type noteproperty -name "Product Version" -value $c[$i].productversion
$obj | add-member -type noteproperty -name "File Version" -value $c[$i].fileversion
$arr += $obj
$i ++
}

$barr = $arr | ? {($_.state -eq "Running") -AND ($_."Company Name" -ne "Microsoft Corporation")} | 
sort creationtime | select  name, Description, "Created", "File Version", "Company Name"
# $barr | ft -wrap -auto > $env:userprofile\desktop\"3RD PARTY DRIVERS.TXT"
$barr | fl  > $env:userprofile\desktop\"3RD PARTY DRIVERS.TXT"


$barr | export-csv -notypeinformation $env:userprofile\desktop\"3RD PARTY DRIVERS.CSV"

$arr | sort creationtime |
select  name, Description, "Created", "File Version", "Company Name", State, "Start Mode", `
"Last Accessed", "Last Written", "File Name", "Internal Name", Directory, "Product Version" |
export-csv -notypeinformation $env:userprofile\desktop\"FULL DRIVER INFO.CSV"

On your desktop you will find a 3RD PARTY DRIVERS.TEXT file Upload it here.

Thanks

You're welcome.

Glad you got it running stable.
If your not having any more issues you can mark the thread 'Solved'.

Let us know if you have any more questions.