Vista Driving Me Insane - BSOD's

Hi All,

I have just built myself a new computer and loaded windows vista business onto it.

I am getting more and more frustrated with it as every 8 or so hours it BSOD's and restarts.
First I started with the drivers. I am satisfied that all of the drivers are vista compatible. The only non standard piece of hardware that i have installed is a sound blaster audigy 2, which i have downloaded and successfully installed the vista drivers for.

I have been looking at the minidumps with Windbg trying to find a pattern. All of the BSOD's have been related to memory corruption - trying to access registers that dont exist (from what i understand anyway)

I Thought a good start would be to test my system memory, which i have run memtest gold (from hirens boot cd) and ran the memory tests passing as successful. I was unable to get PC Check memory test to work as it said Himem or something similar was loaded and it prevented the memory testing...

Since rebuilding my system a week ago, the offenders have been.

Crash 1:
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (a)
Debugging Details:
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READ_ADDRESS: GetPointerFromAddress: unable to read from 819275a0
Unable to read MiSystemVaType memory at 81908680
b23ffffc
CURRENT_IRQL: 2
FAULTING_IP:
nt!MiIdentifyPfn+900
8185d10f 8b7914 mov edi,dword ptr [ecx+14h]
CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR: 0xA
PROCESS_NAME: svchost.exe

Crash 2:
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT (1a)
Arg1: 00041284, A PTE or the working set list is corrupt.
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BUGCHECK_STR: 0x1a_41284
CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
PROCESS_NAME: GoogleDesktop.e
CURRENT_IRQL: 0
BAD_PAGES_DETECTED: 1
LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 81c6eb1e to 81cacfcb

Crash 3
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT (4e)
Debugging Details:
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BUGCHECK_STR: 0x4E_2
CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
PROCESS_NAME: svchost.exe
CURRENT_IRQL: 2
LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 81c5f09a to 81cacfcb

Crash 4:
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT (4e)
Debugging Details:
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BUGCHECK_STR: 0x4E_99
CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
PROCESS_NAME: GoogleDesktop.e
CURRENT_IRQL: 2
LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 81cbd5b3 to 81cacfcb

Crash 5:
NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM (24)
If you see NtfsExceptionFilter on the stack then the 2nd and 3rd
parameters are the exception record and context record. Do a .cxr
on the 3rd parameter and then kb to obtain a more informative stack
trace.
Arguments:
Arg1: 001904ab
Arg2: 878d1a60
Arg3: 878d175c
Arg4: 87bc0154

Debugging Details:
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EXCEPTION_RECORD: 878d1a60 -- (.exr 0xffffffff878d1a60)
ExceptionAddress: 87bc0154 (Ntfs+0x000c8154)
ExceptionCode: c0000005 (Access violation)
ExceptionFlags: 00000000
NumberParameters: 2
Parameter[0]: 00000000
Parameter[1]: 0000ff04
Attempt to read from address 0000ff04

CONTEXT: 878d175c -- (.cxr 0xffffffff878d175c)
eax=0000ff00 ebx=83cd05a8 ecx=b70d8d24 edx=00000000 esi=878d1bb4 edi=b70d8d24
eip=87bc0154 esp=878d1b28 ebp=878d1b5c iopl=0 nv up ei ng nz na pe nc
cs=0008 ss=0010 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000 efl=00010286
Ntfs+0xc8154:
87bc0154 8b4804 mov ecx,dword ptr [eax+4] ds:0023:0000ff04=????????
Resetting default scope
CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
PROCESS_NAME: System
CURRENT_IRQL: 0
ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at 0x%08lx referenced memory at 0x%08lx. The memory could not be %s.
READ_ADDRESS: GetPointerFromAddress: unable to read from 81d275a0
Unable to read MiSystemVaType memory at 81d08680
0000ff04
BUGCHECK_STR: 0x24
LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 87b7ca01 to 87bc0154

Crash 6:
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT (4e)
Debugging Details:
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BUGCHECK_STR: 0x4E_99
CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
PROCESS_NAME: PhotoScreensave
CURRENT_IRQL: 2
LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 81cbd5b3 to 81cacfcb


If anyone out there that is familiar with system debugging could offer some suggestions as to a way forward, i would truly appreaciate it.

The way I see it is Thus:
1. Memory bad - Alot of the crash dumps talk about memory corruption, so perhaps my memory is faulty. can anyone suggest a good memory test program that i can run to test this? The programs on the Hiren's cd are a little old and many of them didnt like the DDR2 memory that i have (they froze on startup)

2. Software or Driver bad - Althought i cant really see a solid pattern, perhaps there is a bad driver on my system that we can debug and catch in the act. I have read about kernel debugging, but dont know how to attach WinDBG to the kernel to log and catch it in the act so to speak.

Any other information, please let me know, im more than happy to provide it and learn how to solve problems like this in the future!

- Scott
Australia.

 

I have also had the same problem in dumps - memory corruption reported; however, doing a Tufftest, which has a memory test, says there's nothing wrong with the memory. Can anyone shed some light on whats wrong?