Hi guys. I thought I'd make a post to see if someone would come up with a good idea to point me in the right direction because right now I'm not sure what to do.
So these are the symptoms:
- Been having RANDOM BSOD's (they don't happen with any specific program or behaviour, they vary from 5 minutes to days)
- I had a windows install and used to have bsod then after a while decided to reinstall and all was fine till the crashes started to happen again. Completely new install would point to hardware but it didn't crash right away only after days and by then I had all my hardware and drivers and usual software all up and running.
- I first tried to see if it was related to something specific so browsed, opened office software, listened to music, played games. There was no pattern.
- System crashed just from staying alive during the night with downloads and it crashed after a reboot and opening a few pages.
- I did several virus checks to no avail.
- I have hardware temperature software which i monitored several times and there was never anything out of the ordinary.
- I then ran a memtest for 5 hours with 0 errors.
After all of that i went ahead and read my last minidump and it was giving me a tcpip.sys error and it mentioned the file avg... can't remember correctly but it was a .sys related to the antivirus software avg. So I went ahead and uninstalled avg.
After that waited for my next crash and voila it came, this time the minidump says
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: WRONG_SYMBOLS
IMAGE_NAME: aswTdi.SYS
Now this new file is related to avast and this is where I'm at.
I'm thinking, it's pointless to uninstall avast because before it was avg now avast, next time it will be something else and I can't not have an antivirus.
Also I was running my system from drive A and after I reinstalled I put the new windows on a recently bought disk B so I'm not keen to thinking it's a hard drive problem.
So what's left? Cpu problem? Graphics problem? Power supply? It always affects the tcpip.sys. I don't know if the minidumps are any help to telling if it is a hardware problem because they keep mentioning software.
I am baffled. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Cheers
Mori
So these are the symptoms:
- Been having RANDOM BSOD's (they don't happen with any specific program or behaviour, they vary from 5 minutes to days)
- I had a windows install and used to have bsod then after a while decided to reinstall and all was fine till the crashes started to happen again. Completely new install would point to hardware but it didn't crash right away only after days and by then I had all my hardware and drivers and usual software all up and running.
- I first tried to see if it was related to something specific so browsed, opened office software, listened to music, played games. There was no pattern.
- System crashed just from staying alive during the night with downloads and it crashed after a reboot and opening a few pages.
- I did several virus checks to no avail.
- I have hardware temperature software which i monitored several times and there was never anything out of the ordinary.
- I then ran a memtest for 5 hours with 0 errors.
After all of that i went ahead and read my last minidump and it was giving me a tcpip.sys error and it mentioned the file avg... can't remember correctly but it was a .sys related to the antivirus software avg. So I went ahead and uninstalled avg.
After that waited for my next crash and voila it came, this time the minidump says
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: WRONG_SYMBOLS
IMAGE_NAME: aswTdi.SYS
Now this new file is related to avast and this is where I'm at.
I'm thinking, it's pointless to uninstall avast because before it was avg now avast, next time it will be something else and I can't not have an antivirus.
Also I was running my system from drive A and after I reinstalled I put the new windows on a recently bought disk B so I'm not keen to thinking it's a hard drive problem.
So what's left? Cpu problem? Graphics problem? Power supply? It always affects the tcpip.sys. I don't know if the minidumps are any help to telling if it is a hardware problem because they keep mentioning software.
I am baffled. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Cheers
Mori