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BSOD on most "cold" boots (or first boot after several hours)
Hi,
Here a summary of my problem... I used to run Windows 7 64-bit and decided it was time to upgrade in August 2015. I bought an SSD and an extra 8GB stick of identical RAM at the same time, and then proceeded to do a full clean (from scratch) install of Windows 10 Home 64-bit.
Everything was actually going fine until a few weeks later, on the 6th of September 2015. That was the date of my first "cold" boot BSOD. I had always been running a 4.7GHz overclock (for flight simulation) so I started by disabling that, just in case, but it didn't fix it... Anyway, I basically get a BSOD on most "cold" boots, but if I let it restart, or just restart myself when the BSOD appears, I'm fine. I have never ever gotten a BSOD while using the PC, only on boots. So it isn't actually a major major problem, but I hate knowing that "something is wrong" with my machine.
As you'll see in the zip file, almost all the BSOD's point to ntoskrnl+142760. Only recently I started getting BSOD's pointing to ntoskrnl+142770. They are mostly MEMORY_MANAGEMENT.
I recently started going crazy and decided I really wanted to fix it. Here's all I remember I did. Maybe your suggestions will remind me of something I have already tried:
-Disabled all overclocks;
-Reset BIOS completely;
-Tried booting with startup items disabled;
-Tried booting with nothing USB plugged in;
-Ran Memtest86 on both sticks of RAM, individually and together, and never got any errors, after 8+passes each time;
-Tried adding a bit of voltage to the 1.5v RAM in BIOS because it was only getting 1.45v at some point... didn't change anything so I reverted back to default;
-Tried uninstalling software that was installed on or near the 6th of September, where it all started;
None of this worked. Here's the interesting part: I gave "Driver Verifier" a spin, using your guide, and it found that my driver used for connecting my DS4 (PS4 controller) to my PC was causing a BSOD instantly at boot. I uninstalled it, then ran verifier again, and all was good. I still get the BSODs... I decided to run verifier again but this time follow another guide, that stated to check almost all the options. Now I noticed that every single driver is getting blamed on boot, so maybe I'm not supposed to run it with all the options ticked after all.
Anyway, all the online guides for my BSOD state I should use Memtest, or run Verifier. I have done both and I have completely baffled. The computer ran fine with Windows 7, and also ran fine for about one month with Windows 10.
PS: I am aware that my sound card driver is outdated, but I have no choice to use it. It was blamed once by verifier, as was every other driver on my machine, when I used the incorrect settings. I tried to uninstall the M-Audio driver and I still got the BSODs, and in any case, I don't know why the PC would have run fine with the M-Audio driver for a month before I started getting the daily BSOD.
Thank you very much for your time!!