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Persistent BSODs without a clear root cause
I have an Acer v3-772g that I just bought last week and have spent nearly as long attempting to debug the BSODs present in my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 install.
ntoskrnl.exe seems to crop up most often as the likely source of the crashes.
Importantly, the computer came with windows 8, and the drivers on Acer's support page are for _only_ windows 8. After I installed windows 7, I matched the hardware IDs from the device manager to the drivers on each manufacturer's website.
I initially thought I pinned down the BSODs to my Razer Lachesis mouse, so I got rid of it. The BSODs persist.
Memtest passes, and no crashes are apparent in safe mode. This seems to be a driver issue, but damned if I can figure it out!
Observed pattern:
The computer most often crashes when I'm downloading things, or immediately after mouse/touchpad input, but it crashes while just sitting on the desktop too. Also, the computer doesn't crash if I'm in a fullscreen video game (torchlight 2, tf2, witcher). I can download in safe mode without crashing.
Would anyone take a look at my crash dumps? It's a bit of a mess, so I thank any brave soul willing to analyze this!