Windows 10 BSOD IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Question

Hi,

For the last few days, I've been getting Blue Screens crashing my system. I can't figure out what is causing the issue, but I think it's a driver. My hardware is an older laptop from 2013. The manufacturer does not specifically have Windows 10 drivers, so I use their Win 8.1 versions, all of which are up to date. I have not had any issues since upgrading to Windows 10 a year ago, until now.

Here are the things I've done so far:

• Ran Windows Memory Diagnostic and returned no errors or issues.
• Ran SFC /ScanNow and fixed corrupted areas.
• Ran DISM health check and returned no issues.
• Ran Driver Verifier and crashed with BSOD and Driver Verifier error. However Windows would no longer boot afterwards and was stuck in the BSOD loop on startup with the Driver Verifier error. I had to do a system restore to get it booting again. I was therefore unable to tell which driver was causing the error, yet believe it is driver-related.

My last three minidumps can be found at this link: [s!Ai_xILzTJGZdkE-QvOXMQ9qlkF0n][Link]

Answer 1

does this problem also occure when you completely uninstall ESET?
while no ESET driver is on the callstack, the crash is in afd.sys (Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock), hinting at problems with 3rd party security software.

Answer 2

Take a look at:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/sbs/windows/troubleshoot-blue-screen-errors-5c62726c-6489-52da-a372-3f73142c14ad
Open start and search for feedback and open Feedback Hub app and report this issue and you may attach dump files.