Dell Inspron BSOD or freeze after startup

Jonathanhjack · 23 Feb 2015

Hi there

i have a dell Inspron N5010 laptop that BSOD/freezes after about 15 - 20min from start up. i have done a clean install of windows 7 pro and still have the same issue. i have enabled Driver verifier trying to get a root cause but no luck so far.

i have used dells built in testing software, 18 hours later everything passed and works fine.

i have attached the dump files.

system specs:

i5 m460 @2.53GHz
4Gb Ram
500Gb HDD
Win7 Pro sp1 64 bit

thanks

Arc · 23 Feb 2015

Can you follow the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) Posting Instructions ? If not in normal mode, try it in safe mode.

Attach the zip in your reply post.

Jonathanhjack · 23 Feb 2015

Hi ARC

thanks, sorry about that.

i have followed the instructions and attached the file.

Arc · 23 Feb 2015

Apparently it is avast that is conflicting with the storage filters and causing the issue. Uninstall Avast using Avast Uninstall Utility. Use Microsoft Security Essentials as your antivirus with windows inbuilt firewall, and free MBAM as the on demand scanner.

Also, as a further check test your RAM modules for possible errors.

How to Test and Diagnose RAM Issues with Memtest86+

Run memtest86+ for at least 8 consecutive passes.

If it start showing errors/red lines, stop testing. A single error is enough to determine that something is going bad there.

Let us know the results.
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Code:

BugCheck 50, {fffffa8002b0ac78, 0, fffff80002e3ecd5, 2}

*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for aswSP.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for aswSP.sys

Could not read faulting driver name
Probably caused by : aswSP.sys ( aswSP+4ddf )

Followup: MachineOwner
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Code:

BugCheck 24, {1904fb, fffff8800622e8d8, fffff8800622e130, fffff880012bc0af}

Probably caused by : Ntfs.sys ( Ntfs!NtfsCommonClose+26f )

Followup: MachineOwner
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Code:

BugCheck 19, {20, fffff8a01aa33cb0, fffff8a01aa34810, 5b6c3b8}

GetPointerFromAddress: unable to read from fffff80002cb40e8
GetUlongFromAddress: unable to read from fffff80002cb4198
Probably caused by : Ntfs.sys ( Ntfs!NtfsRemoveHashEntry+e2 )

Followup: MachineOwner
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Jonathanhjack · 23 Feb 2015

hi arc

i have uninstalled avast, before i sent you those files, there is no AV currently installed. i will run mem test now.

after i zipped those files i got BSOD.

Arc · 23 Feb 2015

OK, let us know the result of memtest86+.

Jonathanhjack · 24 Feb 2015

hi Arc

i downloaded avast remover and ran that, there were some left over files which are now removed.
i ran memtest and all is good i did 13 passes. i have uploaded a pic.

what can i try next?

Jonathanhjack · 24 Feb 2015

so i installed ms security essentials and while it was doing a scan, driver verifier caught a blue screen. i rebooted and was trying to do the DM log collector when it BS on me again, so i ran it again and this is what i got.

hope there is some useful info

Jonathanhjack · 24 Feb 2015

so for h3ll of it i pulled out this hdd and put in a test drive and reloaded windows, redoing all my steps that i did as before. i needed to redownload deamon tools so i could install office. any way i went to there site and they had a diffrent version than what i had gotten 3 days ago and in the bug fix was ...

Bugs fixed:

- BSOD in DT adapter with Verifier;
- Minor fixes.

so maybe that was my problem? i have reinstalled the old drive and installed the new version of DT and i will post back in a few hours.

Jonathanhjack · 24 Feb 2015

Spoke too soon BSOD