Random BSOD's New Laptop

[Drag SGT]

Hi all

Just purchased a new Toshiba X505-Q870 about a week ago and I've started getting Blue Screens at a slowly increasing rate after the first few days which due to my sub-superior computer skills, I don't think I'll be able to pinpoint without help. All of them are from the same string (BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER) and with just a couple exceptions, involve only ntoskrnl.exe and usbhub.sys.

Since it's a new laptop, I haven't installed much, just a couple games, SuperAntiSpyware, MS Security Essentials, iTunes, and BlueScreenView so I could at least see what was happening. At first I thought that since it appeared USB related, my optical mouse, iPhone, or Western Digital external HD could be causing the problem so I unplugged each on separate occasions to no avail. I also tried to manually check for driver updates but the solution is never that easy so I'm stuck. I'm not an online gamer so it's not a huge grievance at this point but I would like to work without having to worry about a random BSOD.

Attached is my minidump log in which there should be 9 events. Thanks in advance and I look forward to browsing through the site and picking up on some 7 tips and tricks.

 

[zigzag3143]

Hi all

Just purchased a new Toshiba X505-Q870 about a week ago and I've started getting Blue Screens at a slowly increasing rate after the first few days which due to my sub-superior computer skills, I don't think I'll be able to pinpoint without help. All of them are from the same string (BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER) and with just a couple exceptions, involve only ntoskrnl.exe and usbhub.sys.

Since it's a new laptop, I haven't installed much, just a couple games, SuperAntiSpyware, MS Security Essentials, iTunes, and BlueScreenView so I could at least see what was happening. At first I thought that since it appeared USB related, my optical mouse, iPhone, or Western Digital external HD could be causing the problem so I unplugged each on separate occasions to no avail. I also tried to manually check for driver updates but the solution is never that easy so I'm stuck. I'm not an online gamer so it's not a huge grievance at this point but I would like to work without having to worry about a random BSOD.

Attached is my minidump log in which there should be 9 events. Thanks in advance and I look forward to browsing through the site and picking up on some 7 tips and tricks.

They are still USB related. the driver is USBhub.sys and it has caused all of the below. I am not sure how many external un powered USB devices you have but when the number exceeds 3-4 the voltage drops below 5 volts and random BSOD's will happen.

If the voltage is the problem you can add an external powered hub (one wih AC) and that should eliminate it.

If there arent that many devices you may have to re-install the drivers for the hub, etc.

Let us know if you need help with any of this

Ken

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Debug session time: Sat May 22 02:21:01.181 2010 (GMT-4)
System Uptime: 0 days 7:25:17.319
BugCheck FE, {8, 6, 5, fffffa8007f11000}
Probably caused by : usbhub.sys ( usbhub!UsbhHubProcessChangeWorker+ec )
BUGCHECK_STR:  0xFE
PROCESS_NAME:  System
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Built by: 7600.16539.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100226-1909
Debug session time: Fri May 21 18:55:05.517 2010 (GMT-4)
System Uptime: 0 days 2:02:25.655
BugCheck FE, {8, 6, 5, fffffa80084a0000}
Probably caused by : usbhub.sys ( usbhub!UsbhHubProcessChangeWorker+ec )
BUGCHECK_STR:  0xFE
PROCESS_NAME:  System
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Built by: 7600.16539.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100226-1909
Debug session time: Fri May 21 16:52:01.538 2010 (GMT-4)
System Uptime: 0 days 1:16:52.787
BugCheck FE, {8, 6, 5, fffffa8008492000}
Probably caused by : usbhub.sys ( usbhub!UsbhHubProcessChangeWorker+ec )
BUGCHECK_STR:  0xFE
PROCESS_NAME:  System
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Built by: 7600.16539.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100226-1909
Debug session time: Fri May 21 14:19:55.510 2010 (GMT-4)
System Uptime: 0 days 18:44:57.759
BugCheck FE, {8, 6, 5, fffffa80083d4000}
Probably caused by : usbhub.sys ( usbhub!UsbhHubProcessChangeWorker+ec )
BUGCHECK_STR:  0xFE
PROCESS_NAME:  System
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Built by: 7600.16539.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100226-1909
Debug session time: Thu May 20 16:33:45.202 2010 (GMT-4)
System Uptime: 0 days 1:43:48.451
BugCheck FE, {8, 6, 5, fffffa80080fe000}
Probably caused by : usbhub.sys ( usbhub!UsbhHubProcessChangeWorker+ec )
BUGCHECK_STR:  0xFE
PROCESS_NAME:  System
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Built by: 7600.16539.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100226-1909
Debug session time: Thu May 20 14:49:17.053 2010 (GMT-4)
System Uptime: 0 days 18:54:14.317
BugCheck FE, {8, 6, 5, fffffa80081f3000}
Probably caused by : usbhub.sys ( usbhub!UsbhHubProcessChangeWorker+ec )
BUGCHECK_STR:  0xFE
PROCESS_NAME:  System
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Built by: 7600.16539.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100226-1909
Debug session time: Wed May 19 19:54:18.447 2010 (GMT-4)
System Uptime: 1 days 23:26:57.696
BugCheck FE, {8, 6, 5, fffffa800838a000}
Probably caused by : usbhub.sys ( usbhub!UsbhHubProcessChangeWorker+ec )
BUGCHECK_STR:  0xFE
PROCESS_NAME:  System
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Built by: 7600.16539.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100226-1909
Debug session time: Mon May 17 13:12:57.773 2010 (GMT-4)
System Uptime: 1 days 14:30:59.682
BugCheck FE, {8, 6, 5, fffffa80083a4000}
Probably caused by : usbhub.sys ( usbhub!UsbhHubProcessChangeWorker+ec )
BUGCHECK_STR:  0xFE
PROCESS_NAME:  System
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨
Built by: 7600.16539.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100226-1909
Debug session time: Sat May 15 22:40:42.933 2010 (GMT-4)
System Uptime: 1 days 10:35:40.181
BugCheck FE, {8, 6, 5, fffffa80085be000}
Probably caused by : usbhub.sys ( usbhub!UsbhHubProcessChangeWorker+ec )
BUGCHECK_STR:  0xFE
PROCESS_NAME:  System

 

[Drag SGT]

Hey ZigZag, thanks for the quick reply. I haven't actually had all three plugged in at once, but I may actually try to do that to see if it will replicate the problem. I also double checked the drivers for the specific devices again and they are indeed up to date. My last theory is to plug my phone into the eSata and put the computer to sleep then awaken it up a few minutes later to see if there's something buggy going on there.

Before I went to bed last night I ran chkdsk /f because the ntoskrnl.exe was the only other constant in the dump files. We'll see if any BSODs pop up today or not. Thanks again.