BSOD - Severe boot up issues

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I’m having many issues with my computer. I have owned it three years and when originally purchased from dinopc it had a few blue screen errors to start with which went after a week of using. No problem since until recently I started developing blue screen errors again.
I’ve opened my case and gave it a massive clearout of dust which made the problem even worse. I have checked all connections in there and any fried capacitors or anything abnormal and everything seems to be in order.
I downloaded driver detective to find any outdated drivers and found many, realised I couldn’t update without paying so then acquired driver genius to do it all so they now seem to be up to date.
. I activated driver verifier and it crashed a GREAT deal more and was almost impossible to boot up. I have now deactivated it in safe mode but still having more issues than before. I have launched my computer in safe mode and it did not crash once.
I’m starting to run out of ideas now and changing my AV from avast to MSE to try and solve it did not work either and now have no AV as my computer seems to dislike it -.-
Below is any information i’ve managed to write down or notes to do with all these blue screen stop errors.
Athrxusb.sys
IRQL not less or equal
System service exception – constantly
Dxgmms1.sys – a few times
Using Ccleaner there is multiple active/com issues for multiple system 32 files.
Struggles to boot up, can take 20/30 attempts at times.
i/o manager driver verifier is mentioned when booting up at times during a blue screen.
When booting up if I run start up repair it keeps removing my antivirus and the solution states a lot of 0x0 error codes to do with hdd related issues
Ntfs.sys
Memory management
When connecting my belkin usb adaptor it constantly seems to be downloading the drivers for it and it has now gone up to #13 which seems to be a tad odd.



Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
athrxusb.sys This files belongs to product Driver for Atheros Wireless USB Network Adapter, try booting into safe mode and remove the driver.

Dxgmms1.sys This is part of the GPU drivers, if you are OC set GPU back to stock.

Ntfs.sys & Memory management Can be RAM and also HDD I would run a MEMtest over night to test Ram and also run a HDD test.
 
When connecting my belkin usb adaptor it constantly seems to be downloading the drivers for it and it has now gone up to #13 which seems to be a tad odd.

Is this a USB wireless adapter? If so might be conflicting drivers. Post a image of device manager and under network if you can.

You could also try a system restore and go back to when PC was working ok?
 
Sorry I knew I forgot a few things here and there xD

System is completely standard, No overclocking, my motherboard hated it when I even attempted it.

dxgmms1.sys only popped up twice both times when my girlfriend walked past my computer but has never done so before.

I haven't had a blue screen for about an hour or two now so when computer is "warmed up" it seems to be far more stable.

I originally paid extra to have an internal pci wireless adaptor which constantly crashed so reverted back to my old use Wireless adaptor to connect to my sky router which seems to have next to no issues (may disconnect from wireless network or need resetting once a week max)

Here's device manager print screen

DeviceManager.jpg


Clicked view hidden aswell (haven't posted that one) and that device is not listed and will do memtest soon as I can find a disk
 
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Sorry I knew I forgot a few things here and there xD

System is completely standard, No overclocking, my motherboard hated it when I even attempted it.

dxgmms1.sys only popped up twice both times when my girlfriend walked past my computer but has never done so before.

I haven't had a blue screen for about an hour or two now so when computer is "warmed up" it seems to be far more stable.

I originally paid extra to have an internal pci wireless adaptor which constantly crashed so reverted back to my old use Wireless adaptor to connect to my sky router which seems to have next to no issues (may disconnect from wireless network or need resetting once a week max)

Here's device manager print screen

DeviceManager.jpg


Clicked view hidden aswell (haven't posted that one) and that device is not listed and will do memtest soon as I can find a disk

About this other wireless adapter was it Atheros model? And did you remove the drivers? sounds like a conflict hopefully.
 
I believe it was then uninstalled from control panel and can't seem to find any remains of it under program files, control panel or device manager
 
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It was something along the lines of this that was installed previously which I physically removed:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/150Mbps-Wireless-Adapter-detachable-TL-WN751ND/dp/B005EKJ5UM

I believe it was then uninstalled from control panel and can't seem to find any remains of it under program files, control panel or device manager

Remove link mate, its not allowed on here.

Lets just see how you get on now then, you could also download Blue Screen View it will list the drivers that give the BSOD in red its a great program.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
 
Sorry, presumed linking would be okay in this situation.

Ran it and the main culprit is the second red highlighted option in red. Looks like it's going to be a pain to fix according to microsoft's site if method 1 doesn't work -.-

Bluescreenoverview.jpg
 
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Sorry, presumed linking would be okay in this situation.

Ran it and the main culprit is the second red highlighted option in red. Looks like it's going to be a pain to fix according to microsoft's site if method 1 doesn't work -.-

Bluescreenoverview.jpg

The first one is windows memory management, you got your RAM timings and voltage setup correct?
Run memtest tonight post back.
 
Ran for 7 passes, no errors.

Restarted several times whilst trying to boot the same two files popped up under blue screen errors. Then whilst using chrome and clicking with mouse a ntfs.sys error popped up
 
Ran for 7 passes, no errors.

Restarted several times whilst trying to boot the same two files popped up under blue screen errors. Then whilst using chrome and clicking with mouse a ntfs.sys error popped up

Run a checkdisk and see if that finds any errors. If that dont find any is it possible to back up your data and do a fresh windows install?
Or try a system restore take it back couple months if you can.
 
Ran Checkdisk, nothing, noticed d link usb dock has power unplugged so plugged that back in and still lots of errors, looks like its the boot.ini fix/fresh instal *sigh* I've got a spare 250gb HDD in computer which is unplugged so I'll try a fresh install on that soon as I can find a DVD RW for the OS
 
Just an update for you Shankly or anyone else who stumbles across this.

I did a full reinstall which gave me less BSOD's and slightly different ones so then knew it was a hardware issue.

With the side of the tower off I could hear there was an issue with power drainage and it kept restarting, I unplugged and reconnected many leads, unplugged cd tray etc to find the cause and then remove a stick of ram, It was the ram that did it!
The thing is it's not a stick of ram or the port that is the problem however when using both together my computer HATES it.

Now I just need to find a solution to this problem xD
 
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