thanks for the tip on saving and sending memory dumps in case of future crashes, but shouldnt I just zip and send the two I have already, above (or at least the one relating to avast)? That program seems to be only for forcing a crash (blue screen) if I have a program freeze, poor response or black screen, but Ive never had that. Everything had worked fine up until windows gave me 2 out of the blue ‘to prevent damage’ screens, seemingly for no good reason. Im sure its very likely, but I have found nothing to hint online that the 2 bsod Ive had are related to one another. I cant find much on ‘ataport.sys’ other than that its a microsoft driver used with ide controllers, commonly taken advantage of through malware/rootkits, often causing the bsod. Avast and mwb with the fixed registry entry state my system is clean, so I dont know. I have had no bsod since the 1st, but I will reinstall avast.
update-Im now on the third bsod (3rd feb), lol. It would seem the individual programs may not be the cause, even if related to the problem, as I just uninstalled ZA and replaced it with OA, but I received another ‘bad pool header’, this time OA related. I dont think I can upload the memory dump you mention in the previous post, as its too large a file (2 gigabytes!), and the wifi connection here is slow and unreliable when it comes to a constant connection (wireless home phone ringing or being picked up can cause a disconnection) Im not going to reinstall the system just yet, and i dont have the option to restore. Interestingly enough, its now the 7th of february and no more issues. Ive just realized that Ive forgotten to restart one commonly used program since the 3rd (Speedfan!). If I dont receive another BSOD within the next week im going to try Speedfan once more, and wait. I may have found the culprit, despite having used it for weeks on default settings with no problems at all. If it works, then I can only put it down to hardware or the last program installation.
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event viewer around the time of the last BSOD (3/2/2013 18:14) is below, could this really be speedfan related, or some sort of hardware issue between the two-eg cpu overheat or damage?
03/02/2013 18:15:11, Error: Service Control Manager [7026] - The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: aswSnx aswSP aswTdi ElbyCDIO EUDSKACS EUFDDISK OADevice oahlpXX spldr Wanarpv6
03/02/2013 18:15:11, Error: Service Control Manager [7001] - The Computer Browser service depends on the Server service which failed to start because of the following error: The dependency service or group failed to start.
03/02/2013 18:15:04, Error: Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM [10005] - DCOM got error “1084” attempting to start the service WSearch with arguments “” in order to run the server: {9E175B6D-F52A-11D8-B9A5-505054503030}
03/02/2013 18:15:01, Error: Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM [10005] - DCOM got error “1068” attempting to start the service fdPHost with arguments “” in order to run the server: {145B4335-FE2A-4927-A040-7C35AD3180EF}
03/02/2013 18:14:59, Error: Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM [10005] - DCOM got error “1084” attempting to start the service EventSystem with arguments “” in order to run the server: {1BE1F766-5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF}
03/02/2013 18:14:50, Error: Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM [10005] - DCOM got error “1084” attempting to start the service ShellHWDetection with arguments “” in order to run the server: {DD522ACC-F821-461A-A407-50B198B896DC}
03/02/2013 18:14:08, Error: EventLog [6008] - The previous system shutdown at 6:05:20 PM on 2/3/2013 was unexpected.
03/02/2013 18:13:29, Error: sptd [4] - Driver detected an internal error in its data structures for .