Solved Several sudden BSODs

[Xab]

Windows 7 Professional x64 OEM on a Dell Studio XPS 1645. The machine is under a year old, but I recently had to replace the hard drive due to the clicking of doom. It's been working fine for the past week, but all of a sudden, it's blue screened 4 times this morning.

If it makes a difference, all three times the screen sort of minimizes when the BSOD happens so that the image is 1:1 with the screen rather than blowing it up to take the whole screen. I've never seen a BSOD do that before, so I think it might be related.

I've not been doing anything too stressing, other than exporting photos in Adobe Lightroom, but it got through that just fine.

Thanks for the help!

 

[Jonathan_King]

Hello,

The crashes point to your Intel WiFi drivers as the probable cause; perhaps a Windows Update set this all off. I see the drivers are fairly old:

NETw5v64.sys     Thu May 14 11:51:34 2009 (4A0C3E06)

Install this updated one: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=19514&ProdId=3062&lang=eng

If the BSODs persist, run driver verifier: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/101379-driver-verifier-enable-disable.html

...Summary of the dumps:

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Built by: 7601.17514.amd64fre.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850
Debug session time: Fri Mar  4 12:56:34.587 2011 (UTC - 5:00)
System Uptime: 0 days 0:12:18.602
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for NETw5v64.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for NETw5v64.sys
Probably caused by : NETw5v64.sys ( NETw5v64+d5017 )
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR:  0xD1
PROCESS_NAME:  svchost.exe
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0xD1_NETw5v64+d5017
SystemProductName = Studio XPS 1645
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨``
Built by: 7601.17514.amd64fre.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850
Debug session time: Fri Mar  4 12:43:42.519 2011 (UTC - 5:00)
System Uptime: 0 days 0:38:00.534
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for NETw5v64.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for NETw5v64.sys
Probably caused by : NETw5v64.sys ( NETw5v64+d5017 )
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR:  0xD1
PROCESS_NAME:  System
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0xD1_NETw5v64+d5017
SystemProductName = Studio XPS 1645
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨``
Built by: 7601.17514.amd64fre.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850
Debug session time: Fri Mar  4 12:05:01.445 2011 (UTC - 5:00)
System Uptime: 0 days 0:44:00.459
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for NETw5v64.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for NETw5v64.sys
Probably caused by : NETw5v64.sys ( NETw5v64+d5017 )
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR:  0xD1
PROCESS_NAME:  System
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0xD1_NETw5v64+d5017
SystemProductName = Studio XPS 1645
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨``
Built by: 7601.17514.amd64fre.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850
Debug session time: Fri Mar  4 11:19:54.887 2011 (UTC - 5:00)
System Uptime: 0 days 2:38:36.902
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for NETw5v64.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for NETw5v64.sys
Probably caused by : NETw5v64.sys ( NETw5v64+d5017 )
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR:  0xD1
PROCESS_NAME:  System
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0xD1_NETw5v64+d5017
SystemProductName = Studio XPS 1645
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨``
Built by: 7601.17514.amd64fre.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850
Debug session time: Wed Mar  2 15:23:50.017 2011 (UTC - 5:00)
System Uptime: 0 days 21:40:43.313
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for NETw5v64.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for NETw5v64.sys
Probably caused by : NETw5v64.sys ( NETw5v64+d5017 )
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR:  0xD1
PROCESS_NAME:  System
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  X64_0xD1_NETw5v64+d5017
SystemProductName = Studio XPS 1645
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨``
  
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[Xab]

That driver seems to have fixed the issue. Thanks Johnathan_King!

 

[Jonathan_King]

Great, thanks for the report!