Win7 Ultimate BSOD - possibly nForce driver issue?

[Devilkin]

Hi. I'm trying to figure out what is causing my Windows 7 partition to crash to BSOD every few hours. I'm thinking it has nForce driver issues with my Asus P5N-e SLI.

I've included my dxdiag and a zipped folder of my minidumps.

I've noticed that several times it has crashed and given a reference to a networking driver or application.


Any help, greatly appreciated! If it is an nForce driver issue, anyone know of a driver set that works? Or even a bios update? I am reluctant to update the bios, since it was working perfectly well with my XP partition.

I've also noticed that in Windows 7 my video card is somewhat unstable. It doesn't cause BSOD but the driver does fail and the screen freezes for a moment and then comes back. It's only when I'm playing a game with a high resolution (ie Dragon Age: Origins). I'm guessing that this is a separate issue with my Geforce 8800GT - I figure it's not working well with the Win7 drivers and directx 11.

I just tried running my geforce with new drivers in Dragon Age. I was running my Geforce with the latest drivers (195.39) and tried several others. I heard that 182.50 was the most stable for now, so I just tried that and it seems to be running the game ok, but performance isn't as good as with newer drivers...but at least that problem is marginally solved for now.

 

[Devilkin]

Oh, it's 64bit 7 BTW.

 

[Devilkin]

I see that 1 person is viewing my minidump. I really hope someone is looking at them and will post because I'm at a loss as to what to do now.

I haven't BSOD'd since earlier today, but it's just a matter of time.

 

[pablogener]

Hi Devilkin,
do not desperate completely. I have a ASUS A7N8X-X which comes with nForce2 and everything EXECPT the built-in sound card works ok WITH THE VISTA NFORCE PACKAGE!!
try that first.
hope it helps. cheers

 

[torrentg]

Hey.

Update (or uninstall) these drivers - research on Google to see what they are first:

nvm62x64 nvm62x64.sys Fri Oct 17 17:01:06 2008
adfs adfs.SYS Thu Jun 26 16:52:37 2008
ASACPI ASACPI.sys Sun Mar 27 22:30:36 2005
pcouffin pcouffin.sys Tue Dec 05 09:39:30 2006

One or more may be causing issues.

And also update to the latest NVIDIA driver from their website.

Post a new bsod if one happens after doing that.

 

[Devilkin]

thanks for the responses. pcouffin.sys belongs to convertxtodvd which I've uninstalled. Maybe it was conflicting since there were 2 versions of the software installed, but I've removed both.

Nvm62x64.sys belongs to the nvidia hardware firewall on my mobo. I'm going to try disabling it in the BIOS and uninstall all of my nvidia software, then reinstall just the ethernet driver and videocard driver.

adfs.sys belongs to adobe drive. I have to figure out what to do with this, but for now I'm going to take care of the other issues and hope this one doesn't act up. If it does BSOD again, I'll uninstall all adobe products minus photoshop.

ASACPI.sys is a driver for asus. Hoping uninstalling everything for my mobo and video card will remove that too.

Thanks guys, I'll let you know how the above all goes. I may feel adventurous and update the bios of my mobo if all this goes well.

 

[Devilkin]

Another BSOD. This time 0x3B system_service_exception.

I've uploaded the latest minidump. Any help again would be so greatly appreciated.

 

[torrentg]

Hopefully for the pc's sake, this will be as easy as my guess.

If you either uninstall or update ESET Smart Security (rather uninstall for now, to test and be sure), it will stop the bsod.

 

[Devilkin]

I'll uninstall it now. I loaded the minidump in the debugger and saw something called eamon.sys. I don't know if that's what caused the crash and I'm no debugging whizz at all... but it does have to do with eset NOD32 AV.

I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[Devilkin]

NOD32 AV uninstalled and all of those drivers uninstalled. I ran a chkdsk as well on all partitions. So far everything running well. Played some Dragon Age: Origins and the video didn't crash. So far, so good.

 

[torrentg]

That's what I like to hear. Very cool.

 

[Devilkin]

Okay, so I had gone for almost 2 days without a crash. I was having that same issue with my video card though. I've read several reports of people with Nvidia cards having issues with Windows 7 and I figure I'll just keep trying different drivers until it works.

Anyway, as I said, it was almost 2 days. I had the video issue so I decided to try a different videocard driver. I installed Nvidia's geforce 181.72 which I'd read is good for the issue I'm having. Although I didn't use driver sweeper to remove my old drivers, so that's one place to start.

But maybe someone could take a look anyway. My minidump is attached. I really don't want to give up on Win7, since I'm liking the features and I will be adding a bunch of memory soon and my only other OS I have here right now is 32bit XP.

Thanks for your help, again!

 

[torrentg]

You want to be using the latest driver of everything you can find and that includes video. So start with that.

These are also older, so have them updated as well, if possible. If unimportant, the uninstall from the system:

amdxata amdxata.sys Tue May 19 13:56:59 2009
spldr spldr.sys Mon May 11 12:56:27 2009
GEARAspiWDM GEARAspiWDM.sys Mon May 18 08:17:04 2009
ASACPI ASACPI.sys Sun Mar 27 22:30:36 2005 << high chance of being cause
mbam mbam.sys Wed May 13 11:21:23 2009

 

[Devilkin]

thanks torrentg, for your advice. I'll try update the video card drivers again. -fingers crossed- I hope it doesn't affect my gameplaying.

If that fails and I still BSOD, I'll look into updating the other drivers and applications that use them.

 

[acadianfragz]

darn its not any antivirus its rly driver related i even tryed on xp pro and ubuntu and the newer release of the driver FAIL and make the computer crash or your graphic card hit the 90 degree for absolutly nothing and its not hardware releated cuz it does it on my other laptop also so WTH XD

 

[Devilkin]

Well, I uninstalled my AV. I updated my nForce drivers and my vid card drivers.

The video is still crashing even though the temp on my card is steady around 80ºC. The driver just quits for some reason. I guess maybe it's trying to access memory at a location used so it's probably a conflict with other drivers.

At this point I'm thinking maybe MBAM may be one culprit. I just updated it and hopefully it'll remain steady without a BSOD, but I'm still getting video driver crashes.

I know it's not hardware related since I have an XP dual boot and I have none of these problems in XP.

I also updated ZoneAlarm Pro to the latest version. If anyone's curious, here's my latest minidump.

 

[Devilkin]

Other software I have that I'm hoping don't have driver conflicts with my hardware are:

PowerISO
MacDrive
MemTurbo (I really just use it to see how much free memory is available. I don't really run it ever.)

 

[Devilkin]

I uninstalled Memturbo and MacDrive just to err on the side of caution and got a windows gadget to monitor memory use.

But anyone got any recommendations as to why the nvidia video driver is crashing?

 

[Devilkin]

So, with macdrive uninstalled and memturbo uninstalled things have been stable. I left my computer on all night and no BSOD.

I also used rivatuner to increase the fan speed slightly on my geforce 8800GT and it brought the peak temperature from 83 to about 75 and it seems stable. I don't know why it would be quitting at 83, but I guess that's what it was.