Windows 7 Constant BSOD after Windows updates

Aitch

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Hi everyone, looking for some help with my BSOD problems. About a month ago I built a new PC and loaded it with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. The copy I had was about a year old so of course since then I've been installing Windows updates to get caught up. A couple of weeks ago one set of updates appeared to cause BSOD upon restarts. When I roll back a set of updates the problems go away. Now there are a pile of updates so I haven't gone through them one by one, but I think there is probably a conflict with drivers, or possibly a memory problem.

With the updates installed, I can get the computer to start fine with only one stick of 2GB RAM installed, but with 2x 2GB RAM installed it crashes. I've attached the dump files of the latest crash here, which was with both memory sticks installed and all updates performed. I've also run MemTest on the sticks which didn't seem to indicate any errors.

If someone could take a look at the dump files and help me out it would be greatly appreciated. I tried looking at them with BlueScreenView but that mainly pointed to ntoskrnl.exe which I understand is flagged when the other problems can't be pinpointed.

Thanks!

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If you have set the bios as I've shown and it is still like that, take all the memory out of the machine. Place it in the garbage. Buy new RAM. Install. Problems solved, enjoy, thank you and you're welcome.

Before doing so, delete C:\Windows\System32\drivers\adfs.sys and reboot.

If even one tiny crash happens after, it time for the landfill.
 
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Really? So the dump files are still pointing to memory corruption? The BIOS settings have not changed, at lest not when I checked yesterday. I've already run full memtests on both sticks of RAM and found no errors.
 
For a long time now, I don't even bother with Memtest or recommending it any longer. I straight away recommend the landfill as above.

Of course, this assumes your bios is set properly as advised.

Over 10k Windows machines fixed by me online.

Not a single instance of someone reporting back that issues continued after my disposal recommendation. 100% satisfaction guaranteed lol.

You're welcome to post a new CPU-Z memory tab so I can double check for ya, if you want.

Delete that adfs.sys file if you haven't yet. After, like I said, one crash at all and poof....RAM gone. New RAM in.
 
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Thanks, I really do appreciate the help. I realize how many requests you get and problems you've solved. I guess I was just hoping it was a driver/software problem and that I wouldn't have to replace hardware.

The RAM is only about 6 weeks old, I will try to get it replaced if the BSOD reappears before trashing it
 
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