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I have used Macrorit Disk Scanner and attached are the scan results.
I have used Macrorit Disk Scanner and attached are the scan results.
AdvCleaner did not find any virus infection.
tdssKiller did not find any virus infection.
I've checked the companies site, I never heard of a NTFS to FAT32 and vice versa converter program what doesn't sound like a very proper program because converting the format properly requires a clean install.
Could you post the result of this check?-perform a health check of the hdd
If you truly believe that the hard drive may be causing problems, please run below tests and post the results.
Diagnostics Test
HDD TEST
Run SeaTools to check the integrity of your HDD. SeaTools for DOS and Windows - How to Use - Windows 7 Help Forums
Run following tests
- Short Drive Self Test
- Short generic
- Long generic
If the short generic fails, no need for the long generic.
NoteDo not run SeaTools on an SSD as the results will be invalid.
Make a photo of the result and post it.
Run chkdsk
Disk Check - Windows 7 Help Forums
Upload the chkdsk log Check Disk (chkdsk) - Read Event Viewer Log
Run HDTune to
- scan for errors, no quick scan but full scan
- check the health,
- benchmark.
It may take some time, but please take the time you need to perform it properly.
When above is done please make screenshots of the following
- the error scan,
- the health,
- the benchmark incl. following
- transfer rate,
- access time,
- burst rate,
- cpu usage.
SuperAntiSpyware did not find any virus infection.
For now I took out from equation the HDD. I am currently running the Esset scan but probably it will show no virus infection too.Also, I disabled the wireless and I hard wired the PC to the network in order to start again the uTorrent with active torrents with no restrictions in terms of bandwidth/number of active torrents/etc.I will do some " stress" tests with utorrent and movies while the PC is connnected using the cable to the internet - I will leave the PC open with the utorrent active for hours.Since that irq bsod generally speaking points to a problem with a driver or with a faulty hardware component (I believe this is not our cause for now), I am thinking that probably the wireless driver is the problem (causing problems with the kernel, improper addressing the memory, etc - we do not want to go that deep) even if no errors are displayed for it.Probably an option will be to downgrade the drivers for wireless if no bsod will occur on the cable.
In a short way:
It isn't improper addressing memory, but referencing invalid memory, with this invalid memory a pagefault is caused after the HAL found out the memory is invalid.
A pagefault isn't the end of the world, but IRQL level 2 or higher only allows non-paged memory to be accessed on which a pagefault doesn't occur, so the pagefault that occured is a violation hence why a BSOD occurs.
Esset scan completed too with no virus infection detected.
I was wondering if you have any suggestion in terms of what driver I should use for the wireless.
The official one can be found below but I am not sure that I want to use that one if the tests using the cable will show that the problem is with the wireless.
Sony Support
Option 29 below:
Sony VAIO VGN-AW21M/H Windows 7 drivers | Sony VAIO Driver