A third party driver is BSODing me and I'm not entirely sure how to fix it
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This is a problem that started cropping up in the past couple of days where, at seemingly random intervals my computer would suddenly BSOD and force a restart. Booting up again seems to be fine and the only real issue I found was some corruption in some FRAPS videos I was in the middle of recording and my game of Aurora's database being corrupted, but those appear to be more of an issue with being shut down unexpectedly than anything else. In order to resolve the issue I downloaded Whocrashed to try and find out what exactly is the problem, and every single BSOD dump file is supposedly caused by the same issue.
[quote]On Mon 03/12/2012 22:35:21 GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\120312-37424-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: etronxhci.sys (0xFFFFF88007209106)
Bugcheck code: 0xD1 (0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFD9, 0x2, 0x0, 0xFFFFF88007209106)
Error: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etronxhci.sys
product: Etron xHCI Driver.
company: Etron Technology Inc
description: Etron eXtensible Host Controller Driver.
Bug check description: This indicates that a kernel-mode driver attempted to access pageable memory at a process IRQL that was too high.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: etronxhci.sys (Etron eXtensible Host Controller Driver., Etron Technology Inc). [/quote]
Taking the program's advice I've started looking for a replacement driver or even an update. I tracked down Etron eXtensible Host Controller Driver in the Device manager however when I tried to update the driver it says it's the latest version. I've tried looking for somewhere where I can download the latest version so I can reinstall it but frankly I don't really know where would be a good place to download that particular driver, particularly as a lot of the sites that crop up on a google search look sketchy as fuck or ping up as an untrustworthy site.
Anyone know of any reputable sources for the driver? And if there are any, how exactly would I go about replacing it? Obviously I can have a go but I'm not too confident fucking around with Drivers and I don't want to break anything (even more).
Specs:
[quote]Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.30GHz 37 °C
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
RAM
4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 667MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z68AP-D3 (Socket 1155) 22 °C
Graphics
SyncMaster (1680x1050@59Hz)
1023MB GeForce GTX 560 (MSI) 27 °C
Hard Drives
466GB Seagate ST500DM002-1BD142 ATA Device (SATA) 22 °C
Optical Drives
MagicISO Virtual DVD-ROM0000
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-222AB ATA Device
DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio[/quote]
I can upload the minidump files if anyone wants to take a look at those.
[editline]3rd December 2012[/editline]
The site of Etron Technology is also hilariously tacky.
[url=http://www.etron.com/]dat spinning globe[/url]
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