Physical Memory Dump BSOD

Ezenia

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Nov 7, 2016
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This build is proving to be a nightmare in terms of amount of issues I'm experiencing so far.

I installed Windows 7 and did everything as normal while letting Windows update my OS (was 242 updates). After some time, it eventually completed. 55 updates failed but the rest installed fine. I rebooted and let it do its thing to complete the update process and that was that. After boot, I saw 2 more important updates were available. I attempted to download them and after that moment I was met with a BSOD (too fast to read).

After reboot, Windows 7 failed to load. All I kept seeing was a black screen with a blinking dash. I inserted my USB stick and did a system restore (before updates). On the screen, it said it did not complete successfully. I rebooted anyway and was able to boot into Windows again. It said restore was successful and now I've lost those 150+ updates I installed.

Despite the restore, the BSOD has not gone. I am getting constant physical memory dumps after about 2-5mins on boot. I could be just sitting idle and it'll freeze then blue screen.

Rebooting to Safe Mode with Networking stops the error from occurring.

I did a clean boot as well and it hasn't crashed since.

Bluescreenview has a bug check code of 0x0000001a for all 3 it can see (there were more but I hadn't set it right before). The 3rd one was apparently caused by a driver known as "ntoskrnl.exe".

Not sure what happened here. Did Windows update mess something up that not even the restore could fix? It was fine before that.
 
Solution
https://www.lifewire.com/disable-the-automatic-restart-on-system-failure-in-windows-7-2626275
do this to turn off auto reboot, this will give you time to read the error. I find this very helpful overall.

Safe Mode with networking works? well that means that the issue is probably a driver and the network driver is good.
in the 150 or so updates were any of them drivers, remember which? if you do uninstall those devices from the control panel in safe mode with networking. reboot and see if the crash recurs, do not let windows install the drivers after the reboot in case the issue is a driver conflict

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https://www.lifewire.com/disable-the-automatic-restart-on-system-failure-in-windows-7-2626275
do this to turn off auto reboot, this will give you time to read the error. I find this very helpful overall.

Safe Mode with networking works? well that means that the issue is probably a driver and the network driver is good.
in the 150 or so updates were any of them drivers, remember which? if you do uninstall those devices from the control panel in safe mode with networking. reboot and see if the crash recurs, do not let windows install the drivers after the reboot in case the issue is a driver conflict
 
Solution