Solved BSOD at seemingly random times.

[EffinCraig]

Hi all, I've been getting BSOD crashes at apparently random times with no apparent cause. Sometimes it occurs while gaming, sometimes while browsing the web, and sometimes when the PC is sitting idle. DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE is the usual error code, but I've also had KERNAL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR a couple of times.

I think it's an HDD issue of some kind but I'm mostly just guessing.

 

[Golden]

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Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information.

BugCheck 9F, {3, fffffa800a355060, fffff80000b9a3d8, fffffa800a90f010}
 [  0, 0]   0  0 00000000 00000000 00000000-00000000    

			Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Unable to load image \SystemRoot\SysWow64\drivers\AiCharger.sys, Win32 error 0n2
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for AiCharger.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for AiCharger.sys
 [ 16, 0]   0  0 fffffa800a355060 00000000 fffff8800f27b890-fffffa800a17fe20    
	       \Driver\usbhub	AiCharger
			Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000002
>[ 16, 2]   0 e1 fffffa800a17fcd0 00000000 00000000-00000000    pending
	       [B][COLOR="Red"]\Driver\AiCharger[/COLOR][/B]
			Args: 00041100 00000001 00000001 00000002
 [  0, 0]   0  0 00000000 00000000 00000000-fffffa8014e7c8c0

The BSOD is caused by the ASUS USB charging application driver - its a well known cause of BSOD's. The only fix is to uninstall the application, if there isn't an update here:

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download

 

[EffinCraig]

Awesome, thanks! I'm relieved it isn't a hardware issue. I'll try this as soon as I get home from work.