System rebooting / freezing @ (seemingly) random times

[knighterrant02]

Hi all,

Just though i'd post to see if anyone could offer up any help. My system seems to be crashing randomly. I have noticed it crashes more often when video is played (vlc if it helps). But not always, it has even crashed straight after it reboots, some times it can last an hour. I had downloaded the latest nVidia drivers in the hope that this would solve the problem but to no avail.

This is only a recent event, up untill 5/6 days ago the system was running smoothly. I tried to restore the system but apparently my last restore point in only 3 days ago(?).

I ran sfc /scannow but that didn't find any corrupt files, but i do have a few errors in sys events.

The most common ones are:
The adfs service failed to start due to the following error:
This driver has been blocked from loading

\SystemRoot\SysWow64\Drivers\adfs.SYS has been blocked from loading due to incompatibility with this system. Please contact your software vendor for a compatible version of the driver.

The driver \Driver\GEARAspiWDM failed to load for the device IDE\CdRomHL-DT-ST_DVD-RAM_GSA-H58N_______________1.01____\5&6cfdfc&0&0.0.0.

\SystemRoot\SysWow64\Drivers\GEARAspiWDM.sys has been blocked from loading due to incompatibility with this system. Please contact your software vendor for a compatible version of the driver.

These are rare, but seem to be common:
The platform firmware has corrupted memory across the previous system power transition. Please check for updated firmware for your system.

The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because the shadow copy storage could not grow due to a user imposed limit.

The most troubling one is this:
Custom dynamic link libraries are being loaded for every application. The system administrator should review the list of libraries to ensure they are related to trusted applications.

The first crash event report:
The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly. [01/03/10]

and i got this later on:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000d1 (0xffffef801ce72740, 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000, 0xfffff88004169718). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 030110-20514-01.

Does anyone have any idea what my next steps should be? Thanks in adv.

KE

 

[wallyinnc]

Hi knighterrant, I would suggest you take a look here first Crash and lockup debug 'How To' - Windows 7 Forums

There are several tools and instructions how to generate data that can be analyzed in more details. I myself can't do it but we have members very good at that.

 

[knighterrant02]

Thanks i'll give them a go! cheers

 

[knighterrant02]

ok here is the output from the SF Diag tool if anyone can decode it??

 

[knighterrant02]

suggestions?

Does anyone have any other suggestions while i hope some goes over the data? My usual default is to try a repair or a clean install when things get this bad. But considering the trouble i had getting win7 to work means i'll loose about two days production time.

So any suggestions at all would be great

 

[wallyinnc]

I called for help, the cavalry should be on its way

 

[knighterrant02]

You sir, are a legend. many thanks

 

[wallyinnc]

I hope the cavalry agrees...

 

[Jonathan_King]

Well I got Wally's call. Could you please upload your dmps for analysis? http://www.sevenforums.com/crash-lockup-debug-how/34900-1-novice-how-ask-help-bsod-problem.html

Just a quick thought, you may want to try uninstalling your Adobe updater. If you're not sure what to uninstall, uninstall anything Adobe related.

 

[knighterrant02]

Hi, sorry about the long time gap. My friends had a baby and was out celebrating @ the weekend. Anyway, i removed the flash player (apparently i had two versions, normal and debugger), and Adobe Air as well. I hasn't crashed since.

I couldn't fint a dump file in the sys/windows folder. It's currently set to %SystemRoot%\Minidump. So i'm going to reinstall flash. I'll need it anyway, i'm a web developer. When it crashes again i'll post the dump file.

So again appologies for the delay, and thanks for the advice.

 

[knighterrant02]

OK just got a freeze, but i haven't re-installed flash and adobe updater is off. Still haven't found any dump file in C:\Windows\Minidump (no minidump folder either). When it freezes it doesn't reboot, just locks up, and no "your computer did not shutdown propperly last time" message. If that counts for anything.

 

[knighterrant02]

Ok i got one freeze, one crash and reboot, (no BSOD). Still no sign of any dump file. Is there a way to force it to create a dump file to check to see if its set right?

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

ok here is the output from the SF Diag tool if anyone can decode it??

Hello,

Lot of old drivers that too from 2005 that could be the main cause. I will post the list download go to each vendors website and download the latest drivers.

SF Diagonostic Report​

Old Drivers:

adpahci      01/05/2007 18:30:09   
adpu320      28/02/2007 00:04:19
arc          24/05/2007 22:27:55
BrFiltLo     07/08/2006 02:51:06   
BrFiltUp     07/08/2006 02:51:02   
Brserid      07/08/2006 02:51:11   
BrSerWdm     07/08/2006 02:51:05   
BrUsbMdm     07/08/2006 02:51:00
ebdrv        31/12/2008 16:29:28
iirsp        13/12/2005 21:47:54 
LSI_FC       09/12/2008 22:46:09 
[B][COLOR=red]MTsensor     28/03/2005 03:30:36[/COLOR][/B]
nfrd960      06/06/2006 22:11:48
NVENETFD     17/10/2008 22:01:06
SI3132       03/10/2007 19:39:29   
SiFilter     15/06/2007 01:02:02   
SiRemFil     20/06/2007 20:42:10
SiSRaid2     24/09/2008 19:28:20   
SiSRaid4     01/10/2008 22:56:04 
wacommousefi 16/02/2007 18:12:17
WMP300Nv2    31/07/2007 06:13:59

ATK0110 ACPI UTILITY is well known for problems please uninstall it.

Probelm Device:

ACPI\AWY0001\2&DABA3FF&1 - Drivers are missing it should be your Motherborad / Chip set make sure to reinstall your Mobo and Chip set drivers to fix it.

Event Viewer Errors:

Mainly your SpyBot and Adobe Air has crashed lot of times. Personally i won't recommend Spybot its better to use Malewarebytes.

Then important one is here

[FONT=Tahoma]vent[86]:[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma]Log Name: System[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma]Source: Application Popup[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma]Date: 2010-03-03T20:47:56.204[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma]Event ID: 1060[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma]Task: N/A[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma]Level: Error[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma]Opcode: N/A[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma]Keyword: Classic[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma]User: N/A[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma]User Name: N/A[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma]Computer: AidanSmyth-PC[/FONT]
[B][FONT=Tahoma]Description: [/FONT][/B]
[B][FONT=Tahoma]\SystemRoot\SysWow64\Drivers\[COLOR=red]adfs.SYS[/COLOR] has been blocked from loading due to incompatibility with this system. Please contact your software vendor for a compatible version of the driver.[/FONT][/B]

Hope this helps,
Captain

 

[knighterrant02]

Cheers mate, i'll dive into those now. Thanks

 

[knighterrant02]

Hi captian,

ok i removed everything Adobe from the system. Spybot too.

ATK0110: i uninstalled in the device manager.
AWY0001: is for the "AMD away Mode" i disabled in the device manager. link bellow if it helps. As i don't care if my computer doesn't go to sleep
http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/50071-amd-away-mode.html
AMD Processors Forums - AMDAway driver for windows 7 64 bits

adfs.SYS: not sure what to do here. Did a search and didn't find it. It's still crashing and rebooting, but still can't fin a dump file in c:windows or c:\memory dump [where i set it to go] I'll post an image incase if got it set up wrong. [last time i opened MS paint it crashed so i want to finish the post first ]
BS Crash and Driver Issue - adfs.sys

a search for adfs.sys did find these though:
$$_syswow64_migwiz_dlmanifests_microsoft-windows-adfs-dl_d8ac7a8744afc871.cdf-ms
$$_system32_migwiz_dlmanifests_microsoft-windows-adfs-dl_893986f097ae8ea9.cdf-ms

Should i remove these references too?

 

[knighterrant02]

here is the image of the memory dump settings and explorer view options, just in case.

 

[knighterrant02]

And i still get adfs.sys errors in the event log. ----------------------------------------------- Log Name: System Source: Service Control Manager Date: 09/03/2010 23:06:36 Event ID: 7000 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: Description: The adfs service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified. Event Xml: 7000 0 2 0 0 0x8080000000000000 260223 System adfs %%2

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

Hi captian,

adfs.SYS: not sure what to do here. Did a search and didn't find it. It's still crashing and rebooting, but still can't fin a dump file in c:windows or c:\memory dump [where i set it to go] I'll post an image incase if got it set up wrong. [last time i opened MS paint it crashed so i want to finish the post first ]
BS Crash and Driver Issue - adfs.sys

a search for adfs.sys did find these though:
$$_syswow64_migwiz_dlmanifests_microsoft-windows-adfs-dl_d8ac7a8744afc871.cdf-ms
$$_system32_migwiz_dlmanifests_microsoft-windows-adfs-dl_893986f097ae8ea9.cdf-ms

Should i remove these references too?

I would because it related to Adobe Drive File System Driver

- Captain

 

[knighterrant02]

HI all. I'm still getting random crashes and there still is not dump file being generated. Anyone have any more suggestions?

 

[knighterrant02]

Here is a screenshot of the last few critical errors. there have been another two reboots since and one freeze before i could post it. The whole thing has become untenable. I'm on my knees here, so please any other sugestions?