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hardware... its all there in the nfo file.

Quad Core Q6600
4 GB Ram
Nvidia 630
Asus DG
Hard drives
Gigabyte ga-41m combo
 
Had exactly the same issue. Did a restore to a previous point (the only one I had) and touch wood the system has been stable since (going on a week now).

Too scared to do any windows updates. From what I can tell, it has to do with drivers writing to the wrong bits of RAM... then when windows finds out it blue screens to prevent data corruption.
 
thats pretty much what happened... computer was running great for weeks, went to restart it and i saw it was applying updates and when it booted up again, I had BSOD... Dont really want to reinstall windows again and then what is the point of having legit OS if you can't apply the updates without worrying that your computer is going to be exposed to BSOD!!
 
Sounds like your physycal memory might be suspect. Can you change or swap the dimms? Else check that your processor is firmly in place, and that your system fan is working, bsod can also be due to overheating.
 
randomwalsh said:
hardware... its all there in the nfo file.

Quad Core Q6600
4 GB Ram
Nvidia 630
Asus DG
Hard drives
Gigabyte ga-41m combo
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Sorry, don't follow links to skydrive.

Have you tried installing 8.1? I had issues with Games on 8 that worked on 7, went to 8.1 and it was sorted. Might be the same with drivers?
 
BonesZ said:
Sounds like your physycal memory might be suspect. Can you change or swap the dimms? Else check that your processor is firmly in place, and that your system fan is working, bsod can also be due to overheating.
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No, it behaves like the memory is faulty, but it isn't. I did full memory diagnostics and all was fine, but still had crashes. The fact that my machine came right after a restore shows that this isn't a physical RAM issue.

It is however a RAM issue... just a software one. As I mentioned earlier, the closest answers I got on the net was that a driver was writing to memory where it really shouldn't be.

I had a bit of luck running verifier, and scanning through the blue screen crash dumps to confirm this.
 
AlphaJohn said:
Sorry, don't follow links to skydrive.

Have you tried installing 8.1? I had issues with Games on 8 that worked on 7, went to 8.1 and it was sorted. Might be the same with drivers?
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Upgrading to 8.1 didn't resolve it for me. After installing 8.1 it was still crashing. What was interesting is that even though I had installed 8.1 (to try resolve this issue), I still had a restore point from earlier that worked.
 
so you couldnt confirm what exactly is causing these irritating bsod? I just put verifier on and now I am getting a new BSOD special_pool_detected_memory_corruption

edit: it looks like networx was the problem. I have uninstalled it and my computer to running perfectly once more
 
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randomwalsh said:
so you couldnt confirm what exactly is causing these irritating bsod? I just put verifier on and now I am getting a new BSOD special_pool_detected_memory_corruption

edit: it looks like networx was the problem. I have uninstalled it and my computer to running perfectly once more
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Interesting .. I used Networx when running Win 8, but also had bsod's. Before I installed the recent 8.1 I got rid of a lot of programs that I found I was not using, including uninstalling Networx. It may be coincidence but I have not had a bsod since dumping networx
 
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