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BSODs after the anniversary update
I don't know where to begin with this one.
I was on windows 7 in the past and my PC (custom built) constantly suffered from BSOD and random crashes (like browsers crashing randomly). I did my best to try and find out what is causing these issues and ended up narrowing it down to a bad driver which I couldn't locate. I gave up and just lived with it. This was till the windows 10 upgrade from 7 because somehow after upgrading, every single problem disappeared. No more BSODs for around a year and a half and neither chrome nor firefox ever crashed. I assumed windows upgrade must have fixed the faulty driver. Everything was fine till the anniversary update.
Windows updated and all the problems returned. I went back the build and problems disappeared. But I stupidly forgot to shut off the updates and one night my windows automatically got updated again and this time I couldn't go back the build.
So here we are. Most of my BSODS are either IRQL less or equal memory management. And browser constantly crashes (those aw snap errors on chrome) but I suppose this is not the right section for that.
Also a thing to note, 75% of my initial BSODS happened whenever my pc tried to install MS update KB3200970. That was a problem on its own but I managed to install it in the end (was hoping that might fix the problem)
What I have done so far
-Ran memtest86+ and it ran fine
-Freshly Installed windows THREE times. Tried to download the 1511 build but it didn't fix anything.
-Tried my best to update every driver
- Ran sfc/scannow with no faults (failed to run a lot of the times)
- Ran chkdsk
- Driver verifier running atm
- Tried DISM health restoration command
- Learned how to debug dump files and how to read them. Although I am still new to it but I did try my best to find if it would point to the driver that is causing this.
I 95% believe it's a driver which is causing all my issues. But I am not sure which one. My 2nd guess is that my motherboard is just too old (AS rock z68 Extreme 4) and perhaps just not good enough. Or maybe I need to tweak some UEFI settings?
At this point I just hope one of you guys can help me. Because I am moving to ubuntu till I can build a new PC otherwise.
Thanks for taking time to read this.