"Your PC encountered a problem and needs to restart." - Round 2.

No problem, I have the time to wait :)

axe0 said:

No problem, I have the time to wait :)

I went through the process to use Driver Verifier described in the tutorial that you linked to (Part 1 - Option 1, then Part 2, including the restart), but I am not noticing any sluggishness on my computer. Might it be that Driver Verifier isn't working (possibly the reboot didn't cause it to kick on)?

Is there any way that I can tell for certain whether it's running (such as an item in my Task Manager)?

Some settings in driver verifier require the system to reboot for it to be enabled, if you don't reboot the system those settings won't be used whilst running driver verifier.

It happens from time to time that no sluggishness isn't noticed.

In an admin command prompt, run following command to see the status of driver verifier.

Code:

verifier /query

axe0 said:

Some settings in driver verifier require the system to reboot for it to be

axe0 said:

enabled, if you don't reboot the system those settings won't be used whilst running driver verifier.

But (as I mentioned in my last post), I did restart my computer after applying the settings.

axe0 said:

In an admin command prompt, run following command to see the status of driver verifier.

Code:

verifier /query

I've now done that. I have the result that the command prompt showed me attached as a text file below. Does this information confirm that Driver Verifier is indeed running?

Attachment 133590

It was only an explanation why driver verifier needs to be restarted, nothing else :)

Driver verifier is running on your system. If driver verifier wasn't running you wouldn't get this kind of information

Code:

    Raise IRQLs:                                861860
    Acquire Spin Locks:                        6822007
    Synchronize Executions:                          4
    Trims:                                           0

    Pool Allocations Attempted:               17556682
    Pool Allocations Succeeded:               17556682
    Pool Allocations Succeeded SpecialPool:        915
    Pool Allocations With No Tag:                   24
    Pool Allocations Not Tracked:                    0
    Pool Allocations Failed:                         0
    Pool Allocations Failed Deliberately:            0

axe0 said:

Please follow this tutorial to run driver verifier.

Well, I have now run Driver Verifier for over 48 hours. It ran without incident. There were no BSODs. Right before I turned Driver Verifier off, I saved the information from Command Prompt again. Here's a text file of it:

Attachment 133883

Partly good :)

Going back a bit to the hardware tests, did you run the hard disk tests on all your hard drives or partitions?
I just went through the event logs a bit, there is an unbelievable large amount of issues with multiple disks spread over months.

The day this thread was created, a large amount of event logs like these were created

Code:

Event[10497]:
  Log Name: System
  Source: disk
  Date: 2017-03-08T01:50:00.872
  Event ID: 153
  Task: N/A
  Level: Warning
  Opcode: N/A
  Keyword: Classic
  User: N/A
  User Name: N/A
  Computer: DESKTOP-AVBIS4C
  Description: 
The IO operation at logical block address 0x1ecc9fb0 for Disk 3 (PDO name: \Device\0000004f) was retried.

Event[10515]:
  Log Name: System
  Source: disk
  Date: 2017-03-08T01:50:36.038
  Event ID: 51
  Task: N/A
  Level: Warning
  Opcode: N/A
  Keyword: Classic
  User: N/A
  User Name: N/A
  Computer: DESKTOP-AVBIS4C
  Description: 
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\DR3 during a paging operation.

Almost 2 months earlier, the same

Code:

Event[8063]:
  Log Name: System
  Source: disk
  Date: 2017-01-31T01:12:13.851
  Event ID: 153
  Task: N/A
  Level: Warning
  Opcode: N/A
  Keyword: Classic
  User: N/A
  User Name: N/A
  Computer: DESKTOP-AVBIS4C
  Description: 
The IO operation at logical block address 0x137d5000 for Disk 3 (PDO name: \Device\0000004d) was retried.

Event[6421]:
  Log Name: System
  Source: disk
  Date: 2017-01-16T16:24:57.552
  Event ID: 51
  Task: N/A
  Level: Warning
  Opcode: N/A
  Keyword: Classic
  User: N/A
  User Name: N/A
  Computer: DESKTOP-AVBIS4C
  Description: 
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 during a paging operation.