Constant Freezing up

[wpmaura]

I have updated my drivers to the best I know how, run windows update, used CCleaner. But still have these frequent crashes.

Running Winows 7 32 bit
quad 3ghz
4 gigs of ram
Nvidia 260

found a program called who crahsed that gave me this info

On Thu 2/10/2011 6:16:05 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\021011-26114-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: rdyboost.sys (rdyboost+0xFCC0)
Bugcheck code: 0xC5 (0x2CA8, 0x2, 0x0, 0xFFFFFFFF82B24795)
Error: DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\rdyboost.sys
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: ReadyBoost Driver
Bug check description: This indicates that the system attempted to access invalid memory at a process IRQL that was too high.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. This might be a case of memory corruption. More often memory corruption happens because of software errors in buggy drivers, not because of faulty RAM modules.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.


On Thu 2/10/2011 6:16:05 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: rdyboost.sys (rdyboost+0xFCC0)
Bugcheck code: 0xC5 (0x2CA8, 0x2, 0x0, 0xFFFFFFFF82B24795)
Error: DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\rdyboost.sys
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: ReadyBoost Driver
Bug check description: This indicates that the system attempted to access invalid memory at a process IRQL that was too high.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. This might be a case of memory corruption. More often memory corruption happens because of software errors in buggy drivers, not because of faulty RAM modules.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.


[FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]On Mon 2/7/2011 12:38:16 PM GMT your computer crashed[/FONT]
[FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\020711-22339-01.dmp[/FONT]
[FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]This was probably caused by the following module: [FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]ntkrnlpa.exe[/FONT] (nt+0x4682B)
Bugcheck code: 0xC5 (0x93D8, 0x2, 0x0, 0xFFFFFFFF82B70795)
Error: [FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL[/FONT]
file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe
product: [FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]Microsoft® Windows® Operating System[/FONT]
company: [FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]Microsoft Corporation[/FONT]
description: NT Kernel & System
Bug check description: This indicates that the system attempted to access invalid memory at a process IRQL that was too high.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. This might be a case of memory corruption. More often memory corruption happens because of software errors in buggy drivers, not because of faulty RAM modules.
The crash took place in the Windows kernel. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver which cannot be identified at this time.
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[FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]On Fri 1/28/2011 8:40:26 PM GMT your computer crashed[/FONT]
[FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\012811-23275-01.dmp[/FONT]
[FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]This was probably caused by the following module: [FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]rdyboost.sys[/FONT] (rdyboost+0xFCC0)
Bugcheck code: 0xC5 (0xEBC8, 0x2, 0x0, 0xFFFFFFFF82B6E795)
Error: [FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL[/FONT]
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\rdyboost.sys
product: [FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]Microsoft® Windows® Operating System[/FONT]
company: [FONT=Segoe UI, Arial]Microsoft Corporation[/FONT]
description: ReadyBoost Driver
Bug check description: This indicates that the system attempted to access invalid memory at a process IRQL that was too high.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. This might be a case of memory corruption. More often memory corruption happens because of software errors in buggy drivers, not because of faulty RAM modules.
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.
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any help is apreciated.

 

[pxsalmers]

You have 4 GB of RAM and you're not running 64 bit?

Also, if you can, load Safe Mode and go to Start, Run, then type: "services.msc" without the quotes. Check to see if ReadyBoost is enabled and running and set to Automatic. If it is running, try disabling it then restarting.

 

[wpmaura]

there is nothing called readyboost running.

 

[wpmaura]

is it safe to delete that file?

 

[wpmaura]

in fact I just looked that up I dont have a flash drive connected

 

[pxsalmers]

Open an administrator-enabled command prompt window (Start, Run, type: cmd) and type: "sfc /scannow" at the prompt without the quotes. Do you have any system restore points? Is this a recently fresh install of Windows?

 

[GeneO]

I had this same problem with readyboost on my system. The problem is, there is no way to uninstall the feature once you have enabled it. And turning it off for a drive doesn't get rid of the filters and drivers it installs. I only recovered by doing a system restore back to before I had enabled it.

if you delete it, since it is a .sys driver, windows may fail to start.

 

[wpmaura]

the just ran went to 100% and that was it.

this problem has been persistant for awhile now, only now getting around to doing something.

 

[pxsalmers]

the just ran went to 100% and that was it.

this problem has been persistant for awhile now, only now getting around to doing something.

If you have a system restore point, I suggest trying a System Restore. If System Restore doesn't work, try doing a repair with the Windows 7 Installation disc. Nothing is guaranteed to work, but GeneO had success with a system restore so maybe you will also.