Corrupted Drivers/Ram?

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Corrupted Drivers/Ram?

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I had a power outage a little over a week ago and since then, my computer has been crashing with “Memory_Management” “irql_not_less_or_equal” “System_Service_Exception” and “PFN_List_Corrupt” I have probably read over 100 articles and tried SFC scan and DISM scan. (Both in normal and safe mode) I just reinstalled windows 10 a couple hours ago and I was still getting the same BSODs while setting up windows somehow… A lot of the BSODs had to do with my drivers or ram. I ran the Windows Memory Diagnostic and came back OK. Same with MemTest86. All my drivers were updated unless there was a hidden driver that was old. I couldn’t download anything cause it would say the “download was corrupted” Even when I was playing games, my games would crash. I couldn’t do Windows updates either cause they came back with an error. The troubleshooters were useless and didn’t detect anything.

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Answer 1

Anonymous

I did run a full scan for my memory and there was no errors. I tried Driver Verifier but crashed on startup and I could not do anything unless I used system restore, which I did.

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Answer 2

This assumes you're using an SSD drive:

Didn't look at the dump (Dave can do that) but just to note that SSD controllers do not like sudden power loss. If you're using an SSD, its possible that there's now has corruption on the SSD side of things and sfc & dism will do nothing. That can seriously complicate finding a solution unless you tried another drive.

I have an SSD that recently didn't work on boot as the controller protection was locking it. Kept throwing problems even trying to install Windows on it when I unlocked it by power cycling. Put it into this computer here and formatted it and as a secondary drive its now all fine. Have it nearly half used without a single blip. Though, I'm still watching it.

The point is that SSD controllers can act really weird at times and in ways that people do not expect. Since they do not like sudden power loss, it might be a reason here depending what Dave sees in the dump.

Example: https://www.crucial.com/support/articles-faq-ssd/optimizing-your-ssd

"SSDs can react poorly to an abrupt loss of power, which can lead to data corruption or your Crucial SSD's controller locking itself"

But, its not the only thing power loss / outage can do.

Answer 3

Hi littlexcatxman

Your minidump files just indicate memory (RAM) corruption no specific driver is listed

I cannot make out the exact Model No. of your PC, but it seems to be an old Dell, your BIOS date is 2013, so I doubt there is any new drivers or BIOS available for that model

You indicate you have already tested with MemTest86, did you run a full 4 pass scan with that and the test passed with no errors?

If the crashes are caused by a driver, to try to force Windows 10 show any faulting drivers, the best option would be to turn on Driver Verifier, let your PC crash 3 times, then you must turn off Driver Verifier, and finally, upload any newly created minidump files

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

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Anonymous

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GvIpXXx6QX2NGLGtP7iL8Q1K-QILL_I8/view?usp=sharing

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Answer 5

Hi littlexcatxman

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

Please check to see if your PC is producing any minidump files, I will check those to see if they provide any insight into a potential cause of the system crashes.

Open Windows File Explorer.

Navigate to C:\Windows\Minidump

Copy any minidump files onto your Desktop, then zip those up.

Upload the zip file to the Cloud (OneDrive, DropBox... etc.), then choose to share those and get a share link.

Then post the link here to the zip file, so we can take a look for you.

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Corrupted Drivers/Ram?

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