2009 timestamp? egads!! Yes, I have two ethernet cards. I have not used the inserted card for two years since i reconfigured my LAN. I'm going to pull it, so that driver will be useless.
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Avast huh?
My event log has this entry before the crash:
Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 2/6/2019 8:13:39 AM
Event ID: 7009
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: pony
Description:
A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the 30000!s! Update Service (avast) service to connect.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">7009</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-02-06T16:13:39.463728800Z" />
<EventRecordID>18484</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="964" ThreadID="5792" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>pony</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="param1">30000</Data>
<Data Name="param2">%1!s! Update Service (avast)</Data>
<Binary>610076006100730074000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
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Will probably rely on Windows Defender as you suggest.
I do not have a RAID. According to what I've read in forums, the SATA RAID Controller is legit for non-RAID configurations. I will see what happens when I disable it.
I have put the kernel.etl up on dropbox:
Dropbox - kernel.zip
Thanks.