HELP! Constant BSOD on startup...Atheros related. (pics)

Ok long story short, going to be as brief as I possibly can about this.

I ran a program, which produced a log file which says
"Successfully reseted Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (was 001D3B144420)
Successfully reseted Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) (was 0090D5241022)
Successfully reseted Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) (was 0017FF187686) "

I proceed to restart the PC, then bam..BSOD after BSOD (loop) right after 'Starting windows' screen. Tried Startup repair, it didnt find anything. I was able to get into the desktop via Safe Mode and immediately checked out the BSOD dmp files. Heres some pics (attached)

According to that it was caused by athrx.sys so immediately i think okay i jacked up the drivers. SO while still in safe mode i then proceed to go to device manager and uninstall 2 drivers with 'Atheros' on the name and restart laptop.

I was able to bypass the starting windows screen and immediately windows says "installing drivers" so i think everything is fine as its just reinstalling the atheros drivers. I was wrong. I got an error saying driver installation failed then BSOD. The dmp file for the most recent BSOD is basically the same as the first except only ndis.sys and ntoskernel.exe are highlight red.

At this point im at a complete loss. Im certain its not a hardware issue, but can anybody please help me resolve this ASAP.

 

Safe Mode, uninstall Atheros. CCleaner.

Reboot, reinstall Atheros.

 

You could remove the panel off the bottom of the machine and pull the wireless card out to see if that helps.

 

let me see if i understood corectly
you've opened a program which comes in Interference with your wireless card (atheros driver) and you get BSOD ?

 

Chastity pretty much nailed it though I didnt use those methods exactly...didn't think to use CCleaner the first time around, i couldve avoided that most recent BSOD *facepalm*

Anyway, I used safe mode with networking (surprisingly the wireless internet still worked...) and then i went to the asus g73 driver download page and downloaded the latest atheros driver. Just one quick download.

Installed, rebooted, everything works again. Thanks once again

@mite_jan: yea it was unexpected. The program changed something hence the log text file, but i honestly dont understand what was changed. Whatever it was, it messed up the driver. And i got a hardware/software failure BSOD before i hit the desktop. If can elaborate on what the hell happened exactly that would be great.

 

i've got similar problems with the atheros driver when i installed COMVIEW for WIFI (network monitoring program)
i've started to get lots of lockups after booting some time

btw i think on asus site atheros driver is outdated
check here
Drivers for Atheros AR9285 and Windows 7

 

Thanks for the heads up! Will update it now

 

Sorry but I have to bump this thread since I didnt want to make another one for basically the same issue.

Right now, everything is fine. But just 30 mins ago, i hit another startup BSOD loop. All i did was uninstall the 'Atheros AR9285 wireless Network adapter' in Device Manager.

Restart. BSOD loop. All BSODs associated with ndis.sys and ntoskernel.exe. This time took forever to get back online for some reason. But i did eventually. So my real question is, how do I properly uninstall the Atheros driver and restarting without loop BSODing?

edit:and now whenever I change the network address on Device Manager > Atheros AR9285 wireless Network adapter > Properties > Advanced (setting it from 'Not Present' to a random value), i get BSOD. oh man.

 

uninstall the driver in Safe Mode if the system is being tempermental, and CCleaner the registry

 

Googling "Atheros athryx.sys BSOD" gets you a whole bunch of results with a ton of people suffering from the same issue.

I've got it a few times myself.

Uninstall the driver via Device manager, all the way back to windows default, and install this one. Found on Chastity's driver reference thread.
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/Drivers/WLAN/WLAN_Azurewave_Win7_32_Win7_64_Z90022272042.zip

Its for the Atheros AR5B95 cards heh, but it seemed to have worked for me.

No BSOD's so far.

 

uninstall your atheros 9285 card and install an intell 6200

 

I have no issues with the Wirless network adapter anymore thanks to the driver from chastity's reference page.

now i have an issue with the AR8131 LAN controller. It wont completely uninstall. Every time I uninstall and reinstall it, it is differently numbered. Now on my device manager under Network adapters, it is listed as
'Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet controller (NDIS 6.20) #5'

#5? How do I completely uninstall it to revert back to the original? Ive uninstalled it in safe mode, and used CCleaner, but CCleaner didnt pick up anything in the registry related to atheros, then i reinstall the LAN driver and everytime its always a different number.

edit: sorry if i made that sound confusing. All i want to do is uninstall all the old atheros LAN drivers. I know they're still there because when I try to manually update it from files in my computer and select "Let me pick from a list of devices drivers already on my computer" I see all the old drivers which do not get deleted during the uninstall, hence the added #'s.

 

In Device Manager, go to View... Show Hidden Devices

You can then uninstall all the legacy hardware, and don't forget to uninstall the old drivers when the option pops up.

 

Alright I have it set to show hidden devices.

Under network adapters, its showing the AR8131 LAN #5, the AR9285 wireless, and like 8 different WAN Miniports labeled IKEv2, IP, IPv6, L2TP, PPPOE,etc...Also the microsoft virtual miniport adapter doesn't show because I've disabled that.

not sure which to uninstall...

edit: Sorry if i confused anyone. I managed to figure everything out. Thanks for all the help!

 

I had a similar issue, VirtualBox installed a special driver that created an interface from my PC to the OS withing VirtulBox, I uninstalled VirtualBox, removed that interface and boom BSOD, went into safmode, removed drivers, BOOM windows installs default ones.

just a tip, when you figure out how it works, explain it in your main post, so when people with similar problems use search they find the solution as well, there is nothing more annoying than finding a post that asks a question then has an edit with something among the lines of thanks, I've figured it out without telling how.