XPS 430x BSOD out of standby...

Onouris

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I have a client with a giant Dell XPS 430 tower (it has to weigh at least 70 pounds!) that randomly BSOD's when he takes it out of standby.

It has never BSOD for me, but it has for him, and it is supported with event log records...

It was having random "Display not active" errors as well, which were resolved with a driver update to the video card. This didn't resolve the issue however.

RAM & Hard drive passed hardware test.

BIOS was updated, and I verified S3 was set (powercfg verified correct).

He has AVG (paid) installed.

The BSOD reads:
Code:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000007a (0x0000000000000020, 0xffffffffc000009d, 0xfffffa8006e7e7c8, 0x0000000000000000).

A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 081310-45630-01.

 

+ System

- Provider

[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting

[ Guid] {ABCE23E7-DE45-4366-8631-84FA6C525952}

[ EventSourceName] BugCheck

- EventID 1001

[ Qualifiers] 16384

Version 0

Level 2

Task 0

Opcode 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2010-08-14T02:17:50.000000000Z

EventRecordID 127409

Correlation

- Execution

[ ProcessID] 0

[ ThreadID] 0

Channel System

Computer Richard-PC

Security

- EventData

param1 0x0000007a (0x0000000000000020, 0xffffffffc000009d, 0xfffffa8006e7e7c8, 0x0000000000000000)

param2 C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP

param3 081310-45630-01

Googling the error has a few people with the same problem, and many of them say that their issues are resolved with display driver updates... but obviously that didn't work here.

System info:

Code:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600

Other OS Description Not Available

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Name RICHARD-PC

System Manufacturer DELL Inc.

System Model XPS 730X

System Type x64-based PC

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz, 2668 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date DELL INC. 1.0.5, 7/16/2009

SMBIOS Version 2.5

Windows Directory C:\Windows

System Directory C:\Windows\system32

Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3

Locale United States

Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"

User Name Richard-PC\Richard

Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB

Total Physical Memory 5.99 GB

Available Physical Memory 4.68 GB

Total Virtual Memory 12.0 GB

Available Virtual Memory 10.5 GB

Page File Space 5.99 GB

Page File C:\pagefile.sys

---

\

Name ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9442&SUBSYS_05021028&REV_00\4&295F40C7&0&0018

Adapter Type ATI display adapter (0x9442), ATI Technologies Inc. compatible

Adapter Description ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

Adapter RAM 512.00 MB (536,870,912 bytes)

Installed Drivers aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll

Driver Version 8.753.0.0

INF File oem25.inf (ati2mtag_RV7X section)

Color Planes Not Available

Color Table Entries 4294967296

Resolution 1680 x 1050 x 59 hertz

Bits/Pixel 32

Memory Address 0xD0000000-0xDFFFFFFF

Memory Address 0xFBDE0000-0xFBDEFFFF

I/O Port 0x0000E000-0x0000E0FF

IRQ Channel IRQ 4294967288

I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB

I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF

Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF

Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\atikmpag.sys (8.14.1.6126, 259.50 KB (265,728 bytes), 7/6/2010 9:15 PM)
Any clues/leads?
 
Look at the mem dump files with bluescreen viewer and see which driver or service is causing the issue.Event viewer might not help you all that much.
 
Yikes, from what it look like BluescreenView is tellin me, ntfs.sys was the cause... that's no good... I don't know what to make of that.
 
For what it is worth, this seems relative to my interests: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977178

Client has gotten 2 of the 3 described in the KB. HDD tests passed the drive. Not ruling out rootkit, so I'm going to re-scan for rootkits (virus scan itself is clean), and going to go with the hotfix/raid controller driver update in the AM.
 
Did the hotfix today, and grabbed the actual minidump for future reference (see below).

If it BSODs again I will update... but it should be fixed...

Code:
Dump File : 081310-45630-01.dmp

Crash Time : 8/13/2010 10:17:50 PM

Bug Check String : KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR

Bug Check Code : 0x0000007a

Parameter 1 : 00000000`00000020

Parameter 2 : ffffffff`c000009d

Parameter 3 : fffffa80`06e7e7c8

Parameter 4 : 00000000`00000000

Caused By Driver : Ntfs.sys

Caused By Address : Ntfs.sys+e534

Processor : x64

Full Path : C:\Windows\Minidump\081310-45630-01.dmp

Processors Count : 8

Major Version : 15

Minor Version : 7600
 
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