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    Turbo Cache BSOD issues

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Method, Feb 23, 2009.

  1. Method

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    Hi There,

    I recently had a failing hard disk, AW sent me a new one and I set about rebuilding it the other day. I followed the order listed on here and have encountereed two problems.

    1.) When installing the onboard graphics drivers, the screen goes blank after about 5 minutes and you have to power it off. The driver seems to insall ok though.

    2.) This is the main one, I'm getting blue screens on start up and at various times when up. Below is an example from the mini dump:

    Opened log file 'c:\debug.log.txt'
    0: kd> .sympath srv*c:\symbols* http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
    Symbol search path is: srv*c:\symbols* http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
    Expanded Symbol search path is: srv*c:\symbols* http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
    0: kd> .reload;!analyze -v;r;kv;lmnt;.logclose;q
    Loading Kernel Symbols
    ..............................................
    Loading User Symbols
    Unable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\iaNvStor.sys, Win32 error 0n2
    *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for iaNvStor.sys
    *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for iaNvStor.sys
    *******************************************************************************
    * *
    * Bugcheck Analysis *
    * *
    *******************************************************************************

    Unknown bugcheck code (8086)
    Unknown bugcheck description
    Arguments:
    Arg1: 00000301
    Arg2: 000001ce
    Arg3: 00000003
    Arg4: 00000000

    Debugging Details:
    ------------------


    CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1

    DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT

    BUGCHECK_STR: 0x8086

    PROCESS_NAME: System

    CURRENT_IRQL: 2

    LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 81f7aed4 to 818e5163

    STACK_TEXT:
    8190dc7c 81f7aed4 00008086 00000301 000001ce nt!KeBugCheckEx+0x1e
    WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.
    8190dce8 818ce510 86f50d18 86f50ab8 00000002 iaNvStor+0x10ed4
    8190dd40 81bd85b0 81910800 00000002 8574b790 nt!KiRetireDpcList+0x147
    8190dd50 818ccf9d 00000000 0000000e 00000000 hal!KfLowerIrql+0x64
    8190dd54 00000000 0000000e 00000000 00000000 nt!KiIdleLoop+0x49


    STACK_COMMAND: kb

    FOLLOWUP_IP:
    iaNvStor+10ed4
    81f7aed4 ?? ???

    SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 1

    SYMBOL_NAME: iaNvStor+10ed4

    FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner

    MODULE_NAME: iaNvStor

    IMAGE_NAME: iaNvStor.sys

    DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 45f3b995

    FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x8086_iaNvStor+10ed4

    BUCKET_ID: 0x8086_iaNvStor+10ed4

    Followup: MachineOwner
    ---------

    eax=81910920 ebx=000001ce ecx=819181f8 edx=00000000 esi=8191093c edi=8190d8f0
    eip=818e5163 esp=8190dc60 ebp=8190dc7c iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz na po nc
    cs=0008 ss=0010 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000 efl=00200202
    nt!KeBugCheckEx+0x1e:
    818e5163 8be5 mov esp,ebp
    ChildEBP RetAddr Args to Child
    8190dc7c 81f7aed4 00008086 00000301 000001ce nt!KeBugCheckEx+0x1e
    WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.
    8190dce8 818ce510 86f50d18 86f50ab8 00000002 iaNvStor+0x10ed4
    8190dd40 81bd85b0 81910800 00000002 8574b790 nt!KiRetireDpcList+0x147
    8190dd50 818ccf9d 00000000 0000000e 00000000 hal!KfLowerIrql+0x64 (FPO: [0,1,4])
    8190dd54 00000000 0000000e 00000000 00000000 nt!KiIdleLoop+0x49 (FPO: [0,0,0])

    I've googled around a bit and iaNvStor.sys is one of the drivers for Turbo memory/cache. But no one seems to have a solution, If I disable it in the bios or don't install the drivers everything seems fine, but it defeats the point really. I've tried the drivers from My Hive, the newer ones from Intel and the ones on the CD that came with it. Same result, any ideas? AW managed to get it installed.