Multiple different BSOD. Cannot find reason.

[Kinru]

Attached is all of the information. This is a new build, completed on saturday with a fresh install of Windows 7. I have ran memtest86 for 4 hours, completing 4 passes with no problems. I have reinstalled all motherboard drivers. I tried using driver verifier a few days ago and was unable to boot into windows without a BSOD. Was able to boot into safe mode to disable it. Have either been browsing on firefox, idle, or in a random application during each BSOD.

I have not yet had a BSOD while in safe mode (with or without networking). The BSOD tend to happen fairly often, with the longest time in between one occurring almost 20 hours. That only happened once, however, as all the other ones occurred within 5-10 hours of the computer being turned on.

Any help would be very appreciated. The next step I was going to take if I can't get a good answer would be to either reformat or do a "repair install" which I'd have to read up on before trying it.

Thank you.

 

[richc46]

No BSOD in safe mode points to driver. Which is surprising since this is a new install.
Since the BSOD occur with driver verifier, at boot, points to a problem with basic drivers.
Lets try to diagnose with a clean boot.
Put driver verifier on, after you set up the clean boot and see what happens
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ation-conflicts-performing-clean-startup.html

 

[Kinru]

So after putting driver verifier on and performing a clean boot, I was successfully able to boot into windows 7 without safe boot.

 

[richc46]

Thats actually great news. Now, one by one put the disabled software back. Use the computer and when you are sure that you are not going to get a BSOD, put another back. This will tell us the cause of your BSODs.
When you get one you will know what the cause is, namely the last one that you enabled.

 

[Kinru]

So I went 1 by 1 and reenabled each different driver in MSCONFIG and restarted my computer. I was able to boot every time except that I was not able to reenable one of the drivers. Avast would not stay checked after rebooting or after clicking apply. Even after changing MSCONFIG to boot with normal settings, it reverted to selected processes with avast unchecked.

When trying to open internet explorer while the computer was like this, it would come up with a "experiencing a problem" with the options to check for a solution or to close the program. Clicking on close the program would not actually exit internet explorer.

I am very confused.

Update: Other internet processes work fine. Firefox, aim, steam, etc have no issues. Internet explorer seems to be the only one.

 

[richc46]

OK
I think that my be indicitive of something
Make a system restore point
Then uninstall your Anti Virus and replace with Microsoft Security Essentials and lets see if you work better.

 

[Kinru]

Have uninstalled avast and was able to boot with driver verifier on. I don't understand why avast would cause a problem as I have used it on several machines all running the same version of windows 7 without any problems. I will leave driver verifier on for now and if I get another BSOD I will post the minidump.

 

[richc46]

No
Turn off Verifier. Lets see if, under normal conditions, without Avast, if you get BSOD.

 

[Kinru]

Ok, I will run my computer with verifier off and see if a BSOD occurs. Will update the thread if I get a BSOD. If after a significant period of time I have no crashes. Would it be ok to attempt reinstalling avast? I like the program better than MSE and have never had a problem with it. Is it likely that for whatever reason my problems would come back?

 

[richc46]

I cant answer that question. The problem could have happened because there is a conflict between Avast and other software. Then it would happen again.
If just the driver is corrupted then you can just download again and it should be ok.

 

[Kinru]

Guess it doesn't matter. Just had a BSOD less than 1 hour into a fresh boot. Attached is all of the info again. Newest .dmp would be the latest one. Once again it is a completely different error. /sigh

 

[richc46]

Its the same as last time, looks like a driver, but no specific one is given, try this:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/101379-driver-verifier-enable-disable.html
for vista and seven

 

[Kinru]

Was able to boot into win7 with it enabled. Currently running with it enabled.

 

[Kinru]

Update:

So I'm approaching the 24 hour mark with driver verifier on and no BSOD. Seems so strange considering I had a BSOD the other day within an hour of boot without driver verifier. Not sure what to think at this point?

 

[richc46]

Verifier does not fix anything is just diagnoses. That being said, dont rock the boat. If things work the way they should now, dont change any settings.

 

[Kinru]

Should I continue to leave verifier on then?

 

[richc46]

Verifier does not hurt anything. If you are not having problems, leave it on. There is an added benefit that if you do BSOD, again, we may have additional information due to the fact that the verifier is enabled.

 

[Kinru]

/sigh. After pushing an NVIDIA update for my drivers I went to restart my computer. It hanged on closing firefox, when I clicked on force restart (after waiting a decent amount of time) it BSOD. It then would not boot into windows getting a BSOD the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL twice in a row. Attached are the dmp files although it appears that the first 2 did not get written correctly. On both boot BSODs it would not restart and required a manual restart.

I really just want this problem to go away.

 

[richc46]

Ok get rid of this and lets see this
We lucked out. The last dump was a result of verifier and gave this result. Uninstall the software or update the driver and hopefully you will be ok. Leave the verifer on to see if it creates additional BSODs, so we can get rid of all you weak drivers
Mbfilt64.sys file descriptionProductname:Unknown Description:Creative Audio Driver Company:Creative Technology Ltd.

 

[Kinru]

EDIT: Ok so that was my audio driver. I deleted that file in safe mode and was successfully able to reboot into win7 however I no longer have sound. When I tried to reinstall the driver through windows update, it BSOD. Attached is the dmp file if you're interested. Kinda confused how I'm supposed to get sound on my computer if the driver is failing on installation however.