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Daily BSOD while doing anything or at Shutdown/Restart
I upgraded my computer back in July and have had a fairly daily BSOD. Many of the earlier BSOD pertained to my ATI Graphics Card when I was playing games. I would last about 20-30 minutes before it would crash. I of course replaced the card and got an NVIDIA GTX 760 and that has resolved my issues when playing games (so anything related to ATI in the minidump is solved). I have gotten a couple NVIDIA crashes when I installed the new card, but I downgraded to the most stable 314.22 drivers and those have now become few and far between.
However, at the same time I was also getting BSOD for my onboard network card. I went and googled around and found that the card is pretty unreliable with driver support being non-existent and all recommendations were to buy a separate NIC, which I did (Intel Gigabit CT PCI-E Network Adapter). However, even with the new NIC I still get many afd.sys, tcpip.sys, ndis.sys, and e1q62x64 crashes. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers multiple times and have used the installer from Intel to get the latest drivers, to no avail. If I do not get a BSOD all day (usually about 9-10 hours) there is a 100% chance that a crash occurs the second I press shut down and it almost always relates to the NIC and if not, it will be memory_corruption. I googled around and found out it mainly has to do with memory leak in drivers, which the dump file also suggest in the Windows Debugging Tool.
If I don't get an error related to my NIC, it is always more general like ntkrnlmp.exe, ntoskrnl.exe, memory_corruption, or BAD_POOL_HEADER (19). Since I was getting these errors and they were not hinting to the problem, I used Driver Verifier following the guide on this site. I originally could not even get to the log in screen and had to launch in safe mode. Those dump files had to do with Daemon Tools, which I uninstalled. This let me get to the log in screen and I was able to use my computer for an about 5-6 hours. While Driver Verifier was on, I had one instance where the NVIDIA drivers failed and recovered, but other than that two other BSOD pointed to my sound card, so I uninstalled and reinstalled and updated to the latest drivers (ASUS Xonar DGX). I will note here that I have third party drivers (UNi Xonar 1.71) instead of the default ones. I have tried both kinds and still gotten a BSOD, so I am currently still on the third party drivers. I have not attempted Driver Verifier again, but if it still required after this post, I will attempt at it again.
I have also ran Memtest86 and had 17 passes with no errors (G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB)). With that I also reseated both of my RAM sticks and reseated my graphics card (changed power cables as well) and moved the sound card and NIC to different slots as well. It did not fix the issue, but I am much more confident that all of the hardware is installed properly.
I followed the guide for BSOD posting instructions and have added a zip file from the SevenForums Diagnostic Tool. Hopefully, this information can help.
Edit: Added most recent BSOD. This time it is something to do with ataport.sys. Something about it misaligned.
Last edited by johnprestongc; 08 Sep 2013 at 20:57.