Various BSODs every few days

Clevername02 · 02 Jan 2016

Hello I have been getting random BSODs for the past couple weeks, been trying to figure it out on my own but I feel like it is time to ask for some help.

Recently the BSOD had the error message KERNAL_SECURITY-CHECK-FAILURE. I rebooted with Driver Verifier and got the message DRIVER-VERIFIER-DETECTED-VIOLATION.

I've reinstalled various drivers and such with no luck so far. I only get a blue screen once every few days so it takes awhile to find out whether the problem is fixed.

Looking at BlueScreenView it looks like the problem files were different every time. afd.sys, rt640x64.sys, NTFS.sys, atikmdag.sys. Each one has ntoskrnl.exe though.

At this point I'm thinking some kind of hardware failure, years ago on a different computer when I had random BSODs it was caused by CPU failure but I'm not sure how to best narrow that down, or even if that is the right direction. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to when the BSODs take place, I am usually able to use my computer for several days before one occurs.

Any help is much appreciated, over time I may be able to solve this on my own but I'm pretty overwhelmed right now so I didn't want to try to fix this alone anymore. Let me know if you need anything else.

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Clevername02 · 02 Jan 2016

I went ahead and ran 4 passes with memtest without any issues.

axe0 · 02 Jan 2016

Please update your BIOS and let me know how it goes :)
ASRock > Z68 Extreme3 Gen3

Clevername02 · 02 Jan 2016

Thank you, i went ahead and updated to the latest bios on there 2.3. Now when i start my computer i get a blue screen with error message, inaccessible_boot_device.

axe0 · 02 Jan 2016

Troubleshooting stop 0x7B and stop 0xED. - Windows 7 Help Forums

Clevername02 · 02 Jan 2016

I was able to fix the boot device problem with "this one weird trick" where you boot up into safe mode and for some reason after you do that you can boot normally. I have no idea why.

I won't know for a few days if updating the bios fixed the bsod. I suppose I will check back in like a week or something depending on when/if another crash happens.

axe0 · 02 Jan 2016

With a 0x7B crash I normally would expect that someone isn't able to boot into safe mode, you've surprised my with that even though it sometimes happens to help :)

Clevername02 · 09 Jan 2016

Ok I said it might take awhile but I did get another BSOD. This time I was using google chrome in fullscreen and when I minimized it I noticed that my entire desktop was missing and had been replaced by just solid red. No taskbar, no icons, no start menu, just the color red. I hit ctrl alt delete and then it bluescreened with the message: page_fault_in_nonpage_area win32kfull.sys

I attached another one of the thingies cuz I assume maybe I needed to do that.

I'm gonna run the system file checker and see what happens cuz I haven't done that yet. I'll let you know how that goes.

Clevername02 · 09 Jan 2016

okay. I ran the system file checker and it found like a million files that were corrupted that it could not repair. The instructions here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929833 say that you can fix the corrupted files manually, but am I really supposed to do this for all like 100 corrupted files?

I went ahead an attached the results of the scan, but I will also be looking into how to fix this on my own. Maybe I'm supposed to use startup repair or something. I'm also wondering if this could be an indication of hard drive failure? I feel like it must be highly unusual to have this many corrupted files. Do I need to run chkdsk? I've been avoiding it since it can take days to run.

axe0 · 09 Jan 2016

The corruption is the shortcuts in the folders
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools\ &
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\

This is a part of the corruption

Code:

2016-01-09 14:29:47, Info                  CSI    000003da [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:77 ml:78]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools"\[l:16]"Event Viewer.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:30:55, Info                  CSI    00000b2e [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:68 ml:69]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories"\[l:18]"Steps Recorder.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:31:06, Info                  CSI    00000bd5 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:69 ml:70]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools"\[l:16]"Task Manager.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:32:17, Info                  CSI    00000fb7 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:77 ml:78]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools"\[l:22]"Component Services.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:32:19, Info                  CSI    00000ffb [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:77 ml:78]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools"\[l:23]"Computer Management.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:32:38, Info                  CSI    000010b2 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:81 ml:82]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\System Tools"\[l:17]"Character Map.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:32:39, Info                  CSI    000010ee [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:77 ml:78]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools"\[l:16]"Disk Cleanup.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:33:47, Info                  CSI    000014ea [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:77 ml:78]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools"\[l:10]"dfrgui.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:34:24, Info                  CSI    000016f1 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:68 ml:69]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories"\[l:24]"Windows Fax and Scan.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:36:19, Info                  CSI    00001ea2 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:77 ml:78]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools"\[l:19]"iSCSI Initiator.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:36:34, Info                  CSI    00001fb5 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:77 ml:78]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools"\[l:30]"ODBC Data Sources (64-bit).lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:36:46, Info                  CSI    00002005 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:77 ml:78]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools"\[l:27]"Memory Diagnostics Tool.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:37:24, Info                  CSI    000021e4 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:68 ml:69]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories"\[l:24]"Windows Media Player.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:37:47, Info                  CSI    000022c7 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:77 ml:78]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools"\[l:24]"System Configuration.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:37:47, Info                  CSI    000022e6 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:77 ml:78]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools"\[l:22]"System Information.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:37:48, Info                  CSI    000022f1 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:68 ml:69]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories"\[l:9]"Paint.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:38:39, Info                  CSI    00002679 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:77 ml:78]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools"\[l:20]"Print Management.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted
2016-01-09 14:39:07, Info                  CSI    00002824 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [l:77 ml:78]"\??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools"\[l:20]"Resource Monitor.lnk"; source file in store is also corrupted

Please try following command in admin command prompt

Code:

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

If there are problems with RestoreHealth, please follow step 6 or 7 (depending on the file you have from the download) from the tutorial DISM - Repair Windows 10 Image - Tutorial