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BSOD when running Firefox. SPECIAL_POOL_DETECTED_MEMORY_CORRUPTION
Hi
Current problem: the computer BSODs when I have Driver Verifier enabled and I open Firefox. 100% reproducible every time.
History of the problem:
- It started a few weeks ago with my computer freezing when I used Firefox.
- At this time I tried to diagnose the issue with Firefox by disabling extensions and running in "safe mode". No effect.
- I eventually switched over to Edge just to get by, however I eventually found that Skype would cause a freeze as well, although much more intermittently.
- I had a Xonar sound card which was getting quite old so I tried removing that and the problem went away until yesterday.
- Yesterday my computer froze again while using Firefox.
- I tried unplugging my graphics card and running onboard graphics. When I did this, the computer no longer froze, but gave a BSOD.
- I checked the memory dump with WinDbg and saw an old driver in the stack trace. I was unable to remove this driver so I decided to re-install Windows (using the Reset function - "keep files" option).
- After re-install, I started installing applications again. I foolishly did not install Firefox as the first thing to re-rest and right now I have a bunch of stuff installed.
- I started reading about diagnosing the issue and found out about Driver Verifier. I ran this and found that Firefox would BSOD within 10 seconds of restoring previous session and loading a few tabs. I checked these memory dumps with WinDbg but the stack traces look clean to me - I don't see any funky drivers.
- I've tried updating my motherboard network and sound drivers, no effect.
- I've tried unplugging the RAM chips (2 chips) and testing them individually, and in each slot (all permutations). No effect, still BSODS with verifier active.
- I've run a Memtest86+ v5.01 and Memtest86 (an older version) for 1 full pass on each and there were zero errors. I will run a longer test overnight.
I've pretty much exhausted my avenues for diagnosing the problem. I'll try and get hold of a PSU from a friend to test that avenue soon. And I'll try get some alternative RAM chips to test and see if the problem still occurs.
Any help would much appreciated!
[edit: attached debug zip]