Multiple BSOD occuring while gaming/startup (ntoskrnl.exe++)

Attachment 279350I built my computer last week and everything was running fine. I suddenly started getting BSOD while either playing games such as Crysis, League of Legends, Portal 2, or even starting up the PC.

I tried a fresh install of Windows 7 and there were less crashes, but they still happened nonetheless.

Memtest passed without errors also.

BlueScreenView reported problems due to ntoskrnl.exe, USBsystem.exe and a few others, and I'll post the .zip of the dump files.

I'm fairly new to this so all help is appreciated,

Thanks a lot,

Jim.

Hello and welcome to the forums, I havelooked through your files and it looks like all of your BSODs are being caused by the same thing:

Code:

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Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information.

BugCheck 1000007E, {ffffffffc0000096, fffff80002bb71c8, fffff880029ec2b8, fffff880029ebb10}

*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for athurx.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for athurx.sys
Probably caused by : athurx.sys ( athurx+997f )

Followup: MachineOwner
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Driver Reference Table - athurx.sys


looking at the driver we can see it is very old:

Code:

kd> lmvm athurx
start             end                 module name
fffff880`03a18000 fffff880`03bf6000   athurx   T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: athurx.sys
    Image path: athurx.sys
    Image name: athurx.sys
    Timestamp:        Wed Apr 20 06:07:45 2011 (4DAEB071)
    CheckSum:         001E1C78
    ImageSize:        001DE000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

Please update the driver from here: ATHEROS drivers for Microsoft Windows (Atheros?????)

whoops my bad, it looks like it is a proprietary version of the driver being used by your USB wifi adapter updates can be found here: Download - Welcome to TP-LINK you should look for the model number of the USB adapter you have on that site.