multiple BSOD in a day

[micrometers]

Hi,

I recently assembled a new system. Gigabyte h77 mb, i5 3450 cpu, ssd, hard drive, 8gb ram.

Getting multiple BSOD. 4 so far today.

It's something driver sqrl less than equal.

I ran memtest 86 on the ram and it came out okay. Any ideas?

 

[D.SKiLL]

If you can get the exact error I can help you out, but its generally a driver issue

 

[Raincity]

I had the same problem last week with my new build. The guys over at MS Technet had me post my minidump and memorydump files and looked at them with the Win 7 debuger and found it was a corrupted driver from Intel RST.

 

[corkyg]

Finding the guilty driver is a process of elimination, and some luck. Boot into SAFE MODE and run MSCONFIG, STARTUP, and you can edit which drivers start on boot. It is a slow process of trial and error, but it woors. You7 can truen all the the most essential ones off and then add them back 1 at a time to find which one is the guilty party.

 

[micrometers]

Yes, I have isolated the problem to a realtek wifi driver. Weird.

 

[Cerb]

Yes, I have isolated the problem to a realtek wifi driver. Weird.

Sadly not :'(. Realtek drivers have gone to pot recently, despite well over a decade of stellar driver support. They've put out buggy ethernet and wifi drivers, which have required many updates on Windows, and have gotten unworking crap into release Linux kernels. Something has definitely changed inside the company. A year ago I would have praised them left and right, figuring the GbE driver problems in Linux were an occasional fluke. But, it's been happening more often on both Windows and Linux, IME.

I haven't gotten BSODs or kernel panics, luckily, but not connecting to a/the network (sometimes not seeing wireless ones), screwing with other devices on the network (needing reboots of other devices/PCs after doing file transfers, FI), disabling the ability to connect or disconnect w/o a reboot...the little USB ones seem to be the worst, but some GbE NICs have problems, too. Sometimes getting the very latest from Realtek's site fixes things, but only sometimes. Maybe it's hardware bugs, I'm not sure--problems seem to follow the device, not the OS--but it's not what I expect from Realtek.

 

[micrometers]

Wow. It just happened again. This is the 6th crash in a day.

and yes, it's a usb wifi adapter.

 

[DSF]

When you ran memtest, did you do it on one stick at a time? In other words, remove all but one stick of memory and test each on its own?

If not, it might be worth trying that unless you're sure you have the culprit nailed down with the wifi adapter/driver. Having more than one stick of RAM installed when you run memtest can mask errors that would otherwise show up.

 

[JoHo22]

Sounds like we may have a similar issue Karmy-
I decided to go through my build and find drivers that are new and a few versions back to see whats most stable.

I fear we have the same issue and its the wifi adapter on my end too.

 

[slayernine]

Multiple BSOD, time to nuke it.

My solution to all of life's problems: Ion cannons and nuclear devastation.