Solved Boots ok but freezes and BSOD shortly after

[toastface]

Hello, I hope someone can help with a problem I'm having.

After updating Comodo Firewall and Adobe Flash Player, my PC started freezing about 1 min. or two after start-up. I'd open up Firefox and start browsing for a bit and then my computer would grind to a halt. I could still move the mouse around and icons would "highlight" but the PC otherwise didn't respond.

Things I've done:
- I've tried uninstalling and re-installing Comodo and Avast because I thought those two programs were most likely to be causing the problem but that didn't help.
- PC seems ok in Safe Mode
- Right now, I'm currently running the computer with only Avast and Windows Firewall (disabled all other non-Microsoft services and start-up items in msconfig) and my PC actually seems ok so far... but I'd still like to know if I can identify a specific cause so it doesn't happen again later.

Here's an example of the error message I get from a BSOD and I've also attached the files recommended on the BSOD posting page. Thanks so much!

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 50
BCP1: FFFFF800000000F0
BCP2: 0000000000000000
BCP3: FFFFF800032BDB9A
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\102611-45848-01.dmp
C:\Users\Ji\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-71448-0.sysdata.xml

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[yowanvista]

Use only one antivirus software, using more than one will cause conflicts.

Old drivers:

Update any Sony mouse driver if any.
Update the Marvel Yukon Network driver Marvell - Support

yk62x64.sys        fffff880`06396000    fffff880`063fb000    0x00065000    0x4ac07193    28/09/2009 12:19:31

Upgrade/Remove any ArcSoft Magic-i Visual Effect software
ArcSoft

Remove/Update any InterVideo/Corel software

Update the RICOH PCIe SD/MMC Driver
Downloads | Ricoh Global

The Nvidia driver is old, please download and install the latest version
http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win7-winvista-64bit-280.26-whql-driver.html

If none of the above work do a www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html

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PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (50)
Invalid system memory was referenced.  This cannot be protected by try-except,
it must be protected by a Probe.  Typically the address is just plain bad or it
is pointing at freed memory.
Arguments:
Arg1: fffff800000000f0, memory referenced.
Arg2: 0000000000000000, value 0 = read operation, 1 = write operation.
Arg3: fffff800032bdb9a, If non-zero, the instruction address which referenced the bad memory
    address.
Arg4: 0000000000000000, (reserved)

Debugging Details:
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Could not read faulting driver name

READ_ADDRESS: GetPointerFromAddress: unable to read from fffff800034f8100
 fffff800000000f0 

FAULTING_IP: 
nt!ExpInterlockedPopEntrySListFault+0
fffff800`032bdb9a 498b18          mov     rbx,qword ptr [r8]

MM_INTERNAL_CODE:  0

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT:  1

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT

BUGCHECK_STR:  0x50

PROCESS_NAME:  PowerManager.e

CURRENT_IRQL:  0

TRAP_FRAME:  fffff8800be46820 -- (.trap 0xfffff8800be46820)
NOTE: The trap frame does not contain all registers.
Some register values may be zeroed or incorrect.
rax=000000001e580002 rbx=0000000000000000 rcx=fffff8000343c940
rdx=ffffffffffffff00 rsi=0000000000000000 rdi=0000000000000000
rip=fffff800032bdb9a rsp=fffff8800be469b0 rbp=fffff8000343c940
 r8=fffff800000000f0  r9=fffff80003249000 r10=fffff8000343c940
r11=00000000001fffff r12=0000000000000000 r13=0000000000000000
r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000
iopl=0         nv up ei pl nz na po cy
nt!ExpInterlockedPopEntrySListFault:
fffff800`032bdb9a 498b18          mov     rbx,qword ptr [r8] ds:0001:fffff800`000000f0=????????????????
Resetting default scope

LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER:  from fffff800032719fc to fffff800032c5c40

STACK_TEXT:  
fffff880`0be466b8 fffff800`032719fc : 00000000`00000050 fffff800`000000f0 00000000`00000000 fffff880`0be46820 : nt!KeBugCheckEx
fffff880`0be466c0 fffff800`032c3d6e : 00000000`00000000 fffff800`000000f0 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000008 : nt! ?? ::FNODOBFM::`string'+0x4611f
fffff880`0be46820 fffff800`032bdb9a : 00000000`00000008 fffff800`033f41de 00000000`0048f56e fffffa80`03b96700 : nt!KiPageFault+0x16e
fffff880`0be469b0 fffff800`033f41de : 00000000`0048f56e fffffa80`03b96700 fffffa80`07dcfa60 00000000`00000000 : nt!ExpInterlockedPopEntrySListFault
fffff880`0be469c0 fffff800`032d9ab6 : fffffa80`07dcfb10 00000000`00000008 00000000`0064ea60 00000000`0064fd20 : nt!ExAllocatePoolWithTag+0xfe
fffff880`0be46ab0 fffff800`035aa942 : 00000000`0064e101 00000000`0064fd20 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000001 : nt!ExAllocatePoolWithQuotaTag+0x56
fffff880`0be46b00 fffff800`035aa9f0 : fffffa80`08aa0b60 fffff880`0be46ca0 00000000`0064e108 00000000`0000008c : nt!NtQueueApcThreadEx+0xb2
fffff880`0be46b70 fffff800`032c4ed3 : fffffa80`08aa0b60 00000000`0064ea08 fffff880`0be46bc8 fffff800`035bd4f4 : nt!NtQueueApcThread+0x20
fffff880`0be46bb0 00000000`776b176a : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiSystemServiceCopyEnd+0x13
00000000`0064e0e8 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : 0x776b176a


STACK_COMMAND:  kb

FOLLOWUP_IP: 
nt! ?? ::FNODOBFM::`string'+4611f
fffff800`032719fc cc              int     3

SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX:  1

SYMBOL_NAME:  nt! ?? ::FNODOBFM::`string'+4611f

FOLLOWUP_NAME:  MachineOwner

MODULE_NAME: nt

IMAGE_NAME:  ntkrnlmp.exe

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP:  4e02aaa3

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0x50_nt!_??_::FNODOBFM::_string_+4611f

BUCKET_ID:  X64_0x50_nt!_??_::FNODOBFM::_string_+4611f

Followup: MachineOwner
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[toastface]

Vaio Care seemed to be the real culprit

Thanks for the advice, yowanvista. Before you responded, I kept poking around and observed that my computer clearly seemed to be freezing up due to an event late in the start-up process. (Hence, PC seems ok at first and is responsive for the first min. or two.)

A few times (not always), the PC seemed to recover after 10-20 min. and I'd get a Sony Vaio Care error message. Once I figured out how to prevent Vaio Care from loading on start-up by editing Task Scheduler, the PC seems functional again... too bad, I kind of liked using Vaio Care.

I'll check out those driver updates. Doesn't hurt to get up-to-date (hopefully).