I saw a thread for this from December 2008 and thought I should open as a new topic.
I’ve been running avast! (current build 4.8.1335) on Windows XP with SP3 for some time now (months?) with no problems. I also run COMODO CIS with only firewall and proactive defense activated - no anti-virus.
One of my kids was doing some web surfing and all of a sudden the machine went to the BSOD. The offending driver was aswtdi.sys.
I’m going to reset the machine to perform a kernel dump so if such happens again I’ll be able to send to you folks.
Besides the disk being corrupt itself (you need to run chkdsk) a common cause can be a problematic antivirus installation. The errors probably occur during file system scanning.
You should also open the Event Viewer (run: eventvwr.msc) and look at the System Log for NTFS errors – if you see any, it is a sure sign that the problem is with the disk itself and needs to be fixed – run chkdsk.
This is often flagged as a “hardware” issue – this could be overheating or possibly the drive itself
Could not read faulting driver name - probably caused by : hardware …
Was your kid running a game, like “Xfire” at the time – I assume he was gaming and the system was heavily stressed – You should also check the ram by running mdsched.exe. On restart when you get to the user interface – press F1 for advanced options and run the extended tests,
I’ve run diagnostics and am not able to find any underlying hardware problems. That’s good! I also know that there could be intermittant issues and these may be indicators leading to a failure. I will monitor the system regularly.
Your help on this issue went far above what I expected. Thank you!
avast! is absolutely a joy to use. If only all software were made to the same standards!