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BSODs occurring on a fresh Win7 install - could be Avast related
Installing Windows 7 64 bit home premium on a machine. This is the second machine of an identical pair. Computer One of the pair of machines works fine, no BSOD's. The second machine has had blue screens almost since the very beginning.
I installed windows 7 64 bit home premium on a SSD. Install went fine as far as I could tell.
I used double driver to copy all of non Microsoft drivers from the working computer to the second computer. This appeared to go fine except the Atheros Valkyrie BootROM driver won't install correctly using doubleDriver. The working The device driver installation Wizard says that the Atheros Valkyrie BootRom is ready to use but when looking at the hardware list there is a yellow warning sign next to the Atheros Valkyrie BootROM entry.
I'm having BSOD upon booting up and logging in to Windows. It seems like I will get a BSOD, then power cycle the machine and then I won't have a BSOD until I reboot and login again. It seems like there is a pattern of login, BSOD, then reboot and login with no BSOD, then reboot, login and get a BSOD again.
I spent a long time just rebooting , loging in, getting a BSOD then rebooting, then loging in, etc to try and see if I could find any patterns.
I have tried a few things to try and isolate the problem which I think might be associated with AVAST (note: computer One (working comuter) has the same version of AVAST internet security with no problems at all). On reason I suspect Avast is that a few of the BSOD were from aswSnx.SYS which is an Avast file.
The main thing I tried was uninstalling avast which seemed to dramaticaly end the BSOD with only getting one BSOD after trying.
I tried booting with Hiren and using the memtest software which did not find any problems with the ram.
I have tried using verifier but the computer dosen't seem to generate any BSOD while verifier is running. The only time a BSOD was generated while verifier was running was after I left the machine runing for 37 hours and came back to a BSOD but no additional information from verifier.
I'm looking to see if by looking at the dumps it can be confirmed/determined that it is indeed Avast causing these BSODs so I can switch to another antivirus before I start depending on this machine.