Windows 7 64 Ultimate hangs at aswrvt.sys

system · 2014-06-20T08:05:52.000Z

This seems to be a common error but the fix isn’t always the same. I’ve attached the FRST file in the hopes Essexboy or someone else can help. I have a solid state Samsung drive so I doubt physical drive failure is the issue.

essexboy · 2014-06-20T13:30:01.000Z

Initially we will reset the registry, if that fails I will then uninstall Avast

Download the attached Fixlist.txt to the same location as FRST
Run FRST and press Fix
On completion a log will be generated please post that
Then try a normal boot

system · 2014-06-20T20:45:04.000Z

That didn’t work. Log attached. I’ve already run the one you made in another post to remove AVAST. I’m afraid I just overwrote that log when I did this one…

essexboy · 2014-06-20T20:47:58.000Z

Could you run a fresh FRST scan for me please

system · 2014-06-20T21:14:28.000Z

Here you go…

essexboy · 2014-06-21T10:19:53.000Z

OK this will uninstall Avast. What happened prior to the boot failure

Download the attached Fixlist.txt to the same location as FRST
Run FRST and press Fix
On completion a log will be generated please post that

system · 2014-06-23T11:42:20.000Z

Ok, now it is hanging at classpnp.sys. Log attached.

essexboy · 2014-06-23T13:22:35.000Z

OK then we can’t blame Avast for this

From a command prompt run the following :

Chkdsk C: /r

Once completed try a normal boot

system · 2014-06-23T19:13:47.000Z

No errors found, and still hanging at classpnp.sys

essexboy · 2014-06-23T20:57:09.000Z

What happened prior to the stalled boot ?

system · 2014-06-23T22:33:36.000Z

Windows updates. I tried a system restore, but that didn’t work either…

system · 2014-06-24T22:53:08.000Z

Ok, I figured it out, and how I figured it out is pretty funny. I had basically resigned myself to having to reinstall Windows, so I went to make an Acronis backup of my OS drive because I do have some data on there I need.

My machine has a total of five hard drives in it, and only the OS drive is solid state. When I tried to back it up to one of my Seagate 1.5TB storage drives Acronis starting throwing write errors. As many of the posts here reference hard drive failure as a cause of the aswrvtsys hang, I went into the BIOS, disabled the controller the two big Seagate drives run on, and voila! - the system booted and completed the system restore I had attempted about a week ago, lol.

I just ran Windows Updates and rebooted, and everything appears to be working just fine. Now I just need to RMA this drive.

I really appreciate your help!

essexboy · 2014-06-25T13:00:42.000Z

That’s good as that was going to be the next avenue, disconnecting the other drives

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