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Win7 64 Home/P Bsod with Avast 8
I've have had a few issues with Avast since it was updated from Avast 7 to Avast 8. I previously had issues with Nod32 and Avast 8 in this thread: BSOD during Nod32 scan Unknown Image I have used MSE and AVG, separately, without issues. However I wanted to try Avast again due to it's features. I re-installed Avast 1/2 weeks ago yet had the same issues with 5 booting Bsods and 1 Bsod in Windows. Avast support told me my 2 mini-dumps were " ntfs crash (hdd), second was memory crash". However as I said I have no issues with AVG or MSE so I would like another opinion outside of Avast's tech support.
I have not had a crash/bsod with normal system use. Although I have had programs crash I have pinpointed most of these to the program having issues, trying to load to much at once causing a hang, being impatient or just not closing the program in the usual way. I am sure my SF log will show these crashes. I resolved my GPU driver crash with tech support. A few of the SF logs may have recorded a few Bsods when I was overclocking trying to nail the voltage down. However I found stable settings for my overclock. I ran two hard stress tests and a full 12 hour blend test. I had no errors or bsods with these tests nor have I had any issues since. My overclock was not set during my issues with Avast. My system was on stock settings with proper settings for my ram, cpu, etc.
I have includes the 2 mini-dumps and 4 temp dumps created by windows triggered by Avast 8 in a Dump File.rar. Avast support has received these same files but only has looked at the mini-dumps.