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Random & frequent BSOD from IASTOR.SYS
Hello all,
For a month now my Dell Inspiron laptop's been randomly freezing. Now it's progressed to random BSOD - sometimes every 5 minutes, sometimes every few hours. No real pattern to what I'm doing with it when it goes blue. Originally I thought it was a problem with my fan (I think it's louder recently) but with some research I'm sure it's iastor.sys.
I have NOT made any hardware changes lately. I haven't run TDSSkiller.
I tried System Restore. I also tried rolling back the iastor.sys driver to the previous version. It originally was from 08/01/2013, I rolled it back to previous version from 05/2012. I'm still getting BSOD. I've tried the automated driver scanner/updater at Dell and Intel but both programs seems to install but not run. I'm confused by Intel's names (Matrix? Rapid Start? Rapid Storage?) so I quit trying to look it up myself.
I'm crossing my fingers that someone can tell me it's an easy software fix rather than a hardware problem but I'll take what I can get. Any help would be really appreciated.
Anna