DPC_Watchdog_Violation

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Hey Guys

Just got to your forum, because there were some similiar cases with DPC_Watchdog_Violation just that my BSOD comes up in a completely diffrent situation. I try to explain, so you get an idea about the problem:

There is my Laptop, a HP 8640p Elitebook (8GB RAM, I7 2640M, 750GB HDD), which just wouldnt wake from Sleep Mode (Win 7 64bit installed). so i shut him down violently with pressing the On/Off Button for a while. After that, the Laptop wouldnt start and i couldn't do a System Recovery with the normal windows tools, nor start in safe mode. Systemrecovery gave an error, that there is no location found or sth. and safemode just went in system recovery settings after 5 minutes blackscreen...

After trying that several times, i thought the windows on the HDD is completely wrecked so i took out the HDD and went to my desktop and put it in there. First i did it while PC is off, but when starting there comes the nice BSOD with the DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION error. I tried to connect the HDD while my Desktop was up and running smoothly and look there, under Computer 3 new drives appear. the next strange thing is, that it loats the first partition of the HDD the 100MB System reserved one and after that the PC freezes and goes to the same BSOD like before. I tried it out once more in Safe Mode, but there is excactly the same problem.

I have the DMP Files for you intelligent guys there, so i hope you can help me out! in the meantime i came to the conclusion, that the HDD is crushed and not only the OS, but perhaps you can tell me something more helpful...

Thank you a lot for your help in Advance!

So Long
 

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Sounds like major corruption occurred on the drive or the drive itself failed. I would recommend checking for corruption first.

Due to the problems running Windows and checking the drive, I would suggest that you access a command prompt outside Windows to check the hard disk for file system errors and/or bad sectors. There are a few methods that may be used to access a command prompt outside Windows:

Access a Command Prompt using the Windows 7 Install Disc:
Press Shift + F10 when the installer loads.​


Access a Command Prompt from the Windows System Recovery Options:
You can access a command prompt through the Windows 7 System Recovery Options. To do so,
  1. Press F8 every second or every half second when your system first turns on or restarts. Some BIOS systems may not recognize the F8 being pressed unless it is pressed very rapidly. Others require the F8 key to be pressed with a longer interval in between. You may have to try different methods of pressing F8 after the Power On Self Test (POST) screen in order to reach the Advanced Boot Options screen. For reference: the POST screen generally has the name of your motherboard (ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, etc.) or the name of your system's manufacturer (HP, DELL, Toshiba, etc.) as an image/logo or in text as it proceeds through the test, and it appears just prior to seeing the Windows logo for the Windows loading process.

    NOTE: If you are unable to reach the Advanced Boot Options screen, proceed to the Windows 7 System Repair Disc section.

  2. Once you have the Advanced Boot Options available, choose Repair Your Computer.

  3. Select your language and login to your administrative user.

  4. Choose the Command Prompt.

Access a Command Prompt from a Windows 7 System Repair Disc:
You may also create a Windows 7 Repair Disc to reach the Windows 7 System Recovery Options. If you are unable to create a System Repair Disc on your own system, you may use another system to do so. Make sure you find someone with 32-bit Windows 7 if you have 32-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 7 if you have 64-bit Windows 7.

In the Windows 7 System Recovery Options, there is an option to start the command prompt.​


Once you have a command prompt available, do the following:
chkdsk /r c:
chkdsk /r d:
chkdsk /r e:
chkdsk /r f:​
.etc until you get the message that the volume could not be opened for direct access. For any drives that do not give the message:
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems​
run disk check again as above. In other words, if it says:
Windows has made corrections to the file system​
after running the disk check, run the disk check again.

I realize you may only have one disk show up in Windows explorer, but you may have more than one disk through recovery options. This is because the system creates a hidden boot partition (which will be C: in recovery), you may have a recovery partition for your PC that is hidden (which will be D: in recovery), and you will have your primary Windows partition (which may be E: in recovery). A custom PC will likely have at least C: and D: to scan.

Also, if asked whether you would like to force a dismoount on any volumes, choose Y for yes. That message just means the volume is currently being accessed, but dismounting it will not cause any harm.
 
View attachment 2439View attachment 2436View attachment 2437View attachment 2438Dear writhziden!

Thank you very much for your fast reply! I could follow it very well, i got easily to the systemrepair but without logging in. (I chose method 2.) When i entered the command prompt and tried your chkdsk command i get always the error of:

Volume could not be opend for direct access (it isnt exactly this message as i use windows in german, here is the german msg if this helps more: "volume kann für direkten zugriff nich geöffnet werden")

I dont have a win7 installation disk here and i got to the system repair on a little diffrent way as you described, perhaps that is the problem. I pressed F8 fast for a while in the POST and the a "System Diagnostics" screen opened. It tried to initialize but failed and i ended up on the screen with the following message:

Windows couldnt start properly last time, this could be caused by changes in the hardware, what would you like to do?

Start windows starthelp
Start windows normally

There i chose starthelp as a normal start just leads to the same screen.

After that i can chose for the windows recovery and after that get five options where also the command prompt is listed:

System repair
System recovery
Systemimage recovery
Windows ram diagnostics
Command prompt

System repair doesnt work, i get an error there.
Systemrecovery also gets an error
For image recovery i would need an image which i dont have
Ram diagnostics doesnt work either
And command prompt i described earlier.

Do you have any other tips?

Thank you in advance, i do really appreciate that you help me out here!

So long

EDIT: I added some Photos, perhaps they help you, unfortunately most of them are in German because the windows is in german...
 
Make sure the hard drive is properly re-connected to the system prior to using the system recovery options. You may also want to go through the following guide:



I also have not yet addressed the blue screen crashes which appear to be unrelated. The system the blue screens occur on is running Windows 8. Was it an upgrade install? If so, what did you upgrade from, i.e. XP, Vista, 7?

I noticed a lot of out of date drivers on that system:

iirsp.sys Tue Dec 13 14:47:54 2005 (439F418A)
Intel Raid StorPort Driver
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=iirsp.sys

copperhd.sys Tue May 23 21:51:13 2006 (4473D831)
Razer Diamondback
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=copperhd.sys

nfrd960.sys Tue Jun 6 15:11:48 2006 (4485EF94)
IBM ServeRAID Controller Driver
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=nfrd960.sys

adpu320.sys Tue Feb 27 17:04:15 2007 (45E4C6FF)
Adaptec .NET Ultra320 Driver
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=adpu320.sys

adpahci.sys Tue May 1 11:30:09 2007 (46377921)
Adaptec Windows SATA Storport Driver
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=adpahci.sys

SiSRaid2.sys Wed Sep 24 12:28:20 2008 (48DA86C4)
SiS RAID Stor Miniport Driver
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=SiSRaid2.sys

sisraid4.sys Wed Oct 1 15:56:04 2008 (48E3F1F4)
SiS AHCI Stor-Miniport Driver
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=sisraid4.sys

adp94xx.sys Fri Dec 5 16:54:42 2008 (4939BF42)
Adaptec HostRAID SAS Driver
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=adp94xx.sys

MBfilt64.sys Thu Jul 30 21:40:32 2009 (4A7267B0)
Realtek HiDefinition Audio driver (file labelled as Creative Audio Driver)
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=MBfilt64.sys

VX3000.sys Tue Oct 6 19:49:00 2009 (4ACBF38C)
Microsoft LifeCam
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=VX3000.sys

iaStorV.sys Mon Apr 11 12:48:16 2011 (4DA34CF0)
Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver (base) (now is the Rapid Storage Technology (RST) driver)
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=iaStorV.sys

Rt64win7.sys Tue Aug 23 07:55:41 2011 (4E53B15D)
Realtek RTL8168D/8111D Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=Rt64win7.sys

ISCTD64.sys Tue Aug 23 11:32:39 2011 (4E53E437)
Intel Smart Connect Technology Driver
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=ISCTD64.sys

RTCore64.sys Tue Sep 6 06:24:50 2011 (4E661112)
RivaTuner/EVGA Precision/MSI Afterburner (known BSOD issues w/Win7)
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=RTCore64.sys

nvstor.sys Mon Sep 12 17:53:04 2011 (4E6E9B60)
nVidia Storage Drivers
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=nvstor.sys

nvraid.sys Mon Sep 12 18:01:54 2011 (4E6E9D72)
nVidia nForce RAID Driver
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=nvraid.sys

RTKVHD64.sys Tue Oct 18 05:48:20 2011 (4E9D6784)
Realtek High Definition Audio Function Driver
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=RTKVHD64.sys

WPRO_41_2001.sys Mon Nov 7 14:04:48 2011 (4EB847F0)
CACE Technologies WinPcap Packet Driver
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=WPRO_41_2001.sys

HECIx64.sys Wed Nov 9 17:52:25 2011 (4EBB2049)
Intel Management Engine Interface
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=HECIx64.sys

stexstor.sys Fri Nov 18 17:27:32 2011 (4EC6F7F4)
Promise SuperTrak EX Series Driver
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=stexstor.sys

avgidsdrivera.sys Fri Dec 23 05:05:21 2011 (4EF46E81)
AVG IDS Application Activity Monitor Driver
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=avgidsdrivera.sys

avgidsfiltera.sys Fri Dec 23 05:05:40 2011 (4EF46E94)
AVG IDS Application Activity Monitor Filter Driver
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=avgidsfiltera.sys

avgmfx64.sys Fri Dec 23 05:08:12 2011 (4EF46F2C)
AVG Mini-Filter Resident Anti-Virus Shield
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=avgmfx64.sys


To update drivers, make sure to download the drivers from the manufacturer and not using 3rd party programs. Your drivers should be found from your motherboard support site (ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, etc.) or your vendor support site (Dell, HP, Toshiba, Sony, etc.) first. If you have devices you bought yourself, the drivers for those devices need to be downloaded from the manufacturer support site for those devices. If you need help, let us know.

To remove drivers, do so by uninstalling the device or software associated with the driver. Devices can be uninstalled through device manager, and then the device itself should be physically removed from the system if possible.


The Intel storage controller drivers are blamed in the crashes.
 
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Thank you for your help!

The thing ist, i took the HDD out from the laptop to access the Data on it, so i put it in my desktop which is running windows 8 clean version (No Upgrade or anything). For this i am really surprised what drivers are too old ;) and the BSODs occured on the Desktop PC, on the Laptop i never got any BSOD...

I will try your tips later, and post my results!

Thanks a lot!!!
 
At the very least, your Windows 8 system should be running AVG 2013 and not AVG 2012. I still suggest looking into updating all other drivers, but the outdated antivirus and Intel storage drivers are the biggest concerns.
 
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