Occasional BSoD's on Windows 7 SP1 64 bit Music Studio Machine

[daveguitaruno]

I have a music studio machine, this is for a AMD phenom II CPU (six core) on a 970 Extreme 4 Mobo 16Gb RAM (2x8Gb sticks of HyperX memory) AMD RADEON HD5450 Graphics card
Currently running Windows 7 SP1 64-bit OS (OEM Version!!!).
I have an unbelievable amount of (All legal) audio plugins, software, PACE anti-piracy, an assortment of dongles and a number of DAW programs, loads of configuration changes.
This and it's predecessors is (and always has been) a precarious system(s). Early this year I've been having Windows update and SFC/DISM issues. (Which SleepyDude is helping me with)
In the process of trying to fix them I've had to restore an Acronis True image quite a few times (Acronis, now only produces corrupt image files)
so I have to go back everytime to a several months old image and have to do a plethora of fixes.
I've rebuilt my studio time and time again, as the audio plugins don't play nice with each other Waves, Gobbler, TC Electronic Antares (and many more).

I've had sporadic BSoD's this year maybe 5 or 6 mentioning memory problem and I have had a few BSoD's recently which did flag up "memory error".
I'd trawled forums about my other problems so I wondered if I had faulty RAM, but I did run 86+ for several of rounds of all the tests,
it took hours and didn't highlight any problems.
The Harddrive is Western Digitial 3TB, I didn't use their specific diagnostic tool, I just ran scandisk which didn't come up with any problems.
I have two 8Gb sticks of HyperX memory, which I thought was supposed to be very good.

I really don't want to do a complete OS re-install as it will take at least two months to get the system fully working again.
Also I have some legacy TCElectronics Powercore additional purchased plugins. Which I can't re-install as TC Electronic have disabled their activation server last year.

My day job is I'm a software developer/Programmer and I like to think I know my way fairly well around a computer, but I'm no Hardware/OS/Networking god.
That said, I have built many PC's from scratch and know my way a bit around PC hardware.

My passion (and sometimes night job) is a musician/guitarist/singer/songwriter.
I'd really like to go back to using my studio to record and master music again and not spend months fighting Microsoft's OS.
I have learnt quite a lot in the past few months about:
SFC /scannow,
the great SFCFix.exe tool (it's really great)
DISM (Windows 7 users DISM syntax is a little different from Windows 8 & 10 syntax that is plastered everywhere (try this dism /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth),
SURT,
Windows Update Fixing Tool: WindowsUpdate.diagcab
and sadly about OEM OS (Don't buy OEM, or PC's with OEM OS is my advice)
What I found out is OEM OS can only run on your hardware, so major hardware upgrade like a different Mobo invalidates it, but the most serious bit is you can't do an in place upgrade.
When you have corrruptions/problems etc You get the advice: "Well just do an in-place upgrade and voila!" It kindly goes through taking an age to about 99% and then it rolls it all back.
I also have a suspicion that certain Security updates are different from the Full retail version.

I've included the latest couple of minidump files here

 

[MrPepka]

Run regedit and set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\TrackPtes equal to DWORD 1, and reboot. Later send full memory dump (MEMORY.DMP in C:\Windows)

 

[daveguitaruno]

Hello MrPepka, thanks for your assistance. My systerm is attempting an Acronis Image creation right at the moment. As soon as it is complete, I will do as you ask

 

[daveguitaruno]

Hello MrPepka, here is my memory.dmp file
MEMORY.7z

 

[MrPepka]

Run msconfig, select "Boot" page, select option "Advanced options", and check option "Debug". Accept changes and reboot computer. The next run Driver Verifier, select "Create custom settings (for code developers)", check "Special Pool", select "Select driver names from a list", and check all drivers except Microsoft drivers. Accept changes and reboot computer. When a failure occurs, please send me a full memory dump

 

[daveguitaruno]

Debug mode caused the system to completely lock up, I booted up twice and everytime it locked up.
I had to go in to safe mode in order to get out of lockup after boot.
Then the system happily booted back to normal again after that, however after running the driver verifier.exe and selecting all but the Microsoft drivers, it is now sending me in to constant BSod's, now I can no longer do normal boot of the system, only safe mode now.
MEMORY.7z
Here's the memory dump and the minidump files as well

 

[MrPepka]

Update:
MOTU PCI Audio Driver (MOTU.com - Download or check in Snappy Driver https://sdi-tool.org/download/)

 

[daveguitaruno]

Thanks the BSoD had mentioned MOTU (which is my external A to D and D to A 24 channel input/output audio unit).
How do I correct the issue from Safe mode as it doesn't let me run the install?

 

[MrPepka]

When you are in this safe mode, turn off Driver Verifier completely (you run verifier.exe and there you choose the "Delete existing settings" option, you accept changes and restart your computer). You should then be able to get into normal mode. And there you update the driver

 

[daveguitaruno]

Thanks, I'll try that

 

[daveguitaruno]

Thanks that worked, shall I attempt to repeat step #5 again?

 

[MrPepka]

First, monitor if there are still some blue screens, then we'll think what's next

 

[daveguitaruno]

Okay thanks.

 

[x BlueRobot]

Have you experienced anymore crashes recently?

 

[daveguitaruno]

Not so far luckily

 

[daveguitaruno]

I spoke too soon I had a whole bunch of crashes that I traced down to a hardware problem which turned out to be my StarTech PCI 3 external Firewire card. It got so bad the machine wouldn't even go in to BIOS. I've removed it for now and I'm sourcing a new PCI-E equivalent card