I guess I'm going to mark this as solved, but it's messy, and that's my fault. I'd prefer to post a final "Here's what was happening and how it got fixed!" for posterity's sake, if not for poor...

Yeah...in the before times, before my post and before re-installing windows, one of my crawls through various forums had mentioned the hub driver as being a potential problem, so I uninstalled the...

Back with the crash.

This is with a totally "clean" boot, NO non-microsoft services, NO startup items.

(Proof: Screenshot of services in msconfig, and screenshot of startup items in...

Huh...confirmed and all. That is odd. The drive letter is reserved, too: if you try to create a new simple volume with Disk Manager, whatever drive letter the "cleaned" drive has been assigned is...

philc43 --

First, thank you very much for following up and digging through my mess of posted files, I really appreciate you taking the time.

Second, my problem dates back many months, to at...

Technically, I don't have an answer.

But *logically*...removable media has to be able to be interacted with by the user: mounted, formatted, etc. How are they going to do that if it isn't...

Hmmm. I did not overclock my RAM -- it was actually underclocked in the BIOS, and I don't know how that happened. It's 3000mhz DDR4 and was set to 2933 mhz.1 All the voltages and timings were...

I turned off Driver Verifier after the last BSOD as I couldn't see it was doing any good. It had been set to monitor all non-Microsoft drivers.



I am in the process of completing these tests...

If you are intending to use the cooler as pictured, you will need a backing plate to provide someplace for the cooler's mounting hardware to thread into. If you want to use the pushlock-style...

Is this a picture of the cooler/heatsink you are planning to use? What is the manufacturer/model? Does it not come with any instructions?

I am at my wits' end, and I need someone with more experience to please look at my info/dumps and hopefully at least nudge me in a direction to start looking at causes. Many and much thanks in...

Frequent IRQL_LESS_OR_NOT_EQUAL BSODs