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BSOD 0x0000000a on laptop when using wireless networking
Hi,
I am rewriting this post... I made a few mistakes in the previous version, which are now corrected. I've learned more about the issue at hand, and I will try to make it more concise.
I am getting persistent 0x0000000a bugchecks on my laptop (Win 7 x64 on F8Sp) when I try to write large amounts of data to a network share using the wireless card. It can happen any time from the first minute to a half hour or more in (with shorter times being far more common). It has never made it past an hour.
I tried several different drivers, including the one supplied with Windows and the one from Asus (among others), but that did not help. Neither did booting into safe mode with networking. However, when I booted into Linux (x64) from a Live DVD, it copied to the network share for three hours without issue before the laptop battery ran out as I slept, as I had somehow partly unplugged the power cord. I consider that a success, given that it usually crashed within a few minutes, and never went longer than an hour before.
I put Windows 7 x86 on a spare laptop HDD and tried that. It's straight Win 7 SP1, with no updates yet... I have installed the necessary drivers and nothing else. The wireless driver is the one included with Windows. As with Linux, It copied to the network share flawlessly; I let it chug along for three hours before I decided that was a success.
After that, it occurred to me... what if it is the 4GB limit that made it work in x86? I removed one SoDIMM, bringing the memory total to 4gb, and put the regular hard drive with Windows 7 x64 on it back in.
Again, it passed. But why would x64 Windows have problems with memory above 4GB? Linux x64 had no problem with it. It should not be a RAM issue; the system passed 7 hours of Memtest86+, and I have not had a single BSOD on this laptop with 7 x64 that was not related to this. Swapping the memory modules has had no effect.
I've checked for malware with my usual (Outpost Security Suite Pro), Kaspersky TDSS killer (I don't suspect anything, but it was handy), and Malwarebytes free. All report no malware (and removing one memory stick should not help if it was malware).
System specs:
Asus F8Sp-X1
Windows 7 x64
8gb DDR2-667
Core 2 Duo T7800 2.6 ghz
Intel PM965 chipset
WD Black 750GB HDD
HD 3650 GPU
I have attached the crash dumps as specified in the sticky. Any help is welcome!
Last edited by Ascaris; 10 Nov 2015 at 01:08. Reason: More info