BSOD every few hours or few days - very random

stonerobertc · 10 Sep 2015

I think I found it in device manager but don't see it now.

axe0 · 10 Sep 2015

Please search for services.msc and see if you can find it in the services.
You should disable it there if you can find it.

stonerobertc · 10 Sep 2015

Thanks for your responses. The Defender and Malwarebytes were both clean. I had forgotten where I changed IRST since I have been poking around so many places. It turns out I had only set it to "manual" instead of "disabled". I have changed that. The Spyder3 does not appear to have a newer driver, at least not from Datacolor. Windows update shows it is the latest. The Spyder3 is older so there may not be newer software. I think the current one is Spyder5. It crashed once today, but that was before the IRST change. It continues to work great except when it crashes. The crashes mostly seem to occur overnight or during the day when I am not on the computer. We will see how it goes tonight. Attached is the latest dump info fro this afternoon's crash before the IRST change.
Attachment 36820

axe0 · 11 Sep 2015

That crash is memory_corruption caused by the Nvidia Video driver.
I won't give any recommendation, because I want to see what the behavior is when IRST is disabled.

stonerobertc · 11 Sep 2015

It crashed again about 9:22 pm last night AFTER I disabled IRST. Attached is the file. Attachment 36881

However, I disabled a few things in startup after the last crash and it did not crash overnight. I disabled Spyder, 4 items related to an Epson network printer, MS OneDrive, one related to Roxio CD creator and a couple of Western Digital programs related to external drives.

Not sure what this means. It has gone for some extended periods before without crashing and it has only been about 10 hours at this point.

axe0 · 11 Sep 2015

The partitions J, C and B need more free space.
Move files to other partitions to increase the free space to at least 10-15%.

Warning

Less free space on a partition could cause BSOD's

Please remove the Nvidia utilities if you're not using them.
The cause is the Nvidia Video driver again.

Code:

0: kd> lmvm nvlddmkmstart             end                 module name
fffff801`c1f10000 fffff801`c2a03000   nvlddmkm T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: nvlddmkm.sys
    Image path: nvlddmkm.sys
    Image name: nvlddmkm.sys
    Timestamp:        Fri Aug 28 18:35:35 2015 (55E08DD7)
    CheckSum:         00AAF97A
    ImageSize:        00AF3000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

stonerobertc · 11 Sep 2015

My optimism was premature. I changed back to the latest nvidia ODE driver instead of the latest QNF driver, and I shifted a few things around to change the disk space issues. I also disabled the nvidia nView Wizard in startup. However, it crashed this afternoon while I had my iPad connected and was deleting photos. Here is the dump info.
Attachment 36936

axe0 · 11 Sep 2015

Please do the following:

Open an admin command prompt
Copy/paster "chkdsk C: /f" (without quotes) and press enter
Reboot if asked

A system service exception error possibly caused by memory, but the RAM is ruled out.

stonerobertc · 11 Sep 2015

I ran it and something about checking the disk flashed across the screen quickly at startup, but I could read it. Is there somewhere I can check to see if it found or did anything?

stonerobertc · 11 Sep 2015

I found the event log for chkdsk and it found no errors.