Windows 10: BSOD (DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL) randomly Windows 10

My computer experienced randomly BSOD with DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. It started from last month. No hardware changed from January.

I remembered the first two crash occured while downloading a big file and I guess may related to the my usb wireless driver? But I have install all newest driver for the usb wireless adaptor. I also updated to all the newest driver for motherboard, video card, etc. Please help to identify the real problem is.

Thanks!

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Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)

I have lenovo Z51-70. On 3rd - Oct -2016 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems (KB3194496) was installed successfully. Since then i have been facing BSOD. Total 2 BSOD i have seen.

1) DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL ndis.sys

2) DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL tcpip.sys

Windows 10 update traps some systems in a boot loop, Microsoft promises fix [Updated] - ExtremeTech

Please refer this article they say that it's windows update problem ?

 

Storport.sys Problem When Installing Windows 10

So I'm getting a BSOD when trying to update to Windows 10 from 7. The error message says DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (Storport.sys) Any help would be much appreciated!

 

Hi @cxterm .

First of all, make it sure that you are applying that ZyXEL Wireless AC USB Adapter to a USB2 port and not to a USB3 port.
The driver (rtwlanu.sys) gives a hint that it is a USB2 device.

Let us know about it before any further troubleshooting.
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Code: BugCheck D1, {28, 2, 0, fffff800e632d661} Probably caused by : USBXHCI.SYS ( USBXHCI!Bulk_ProcessTransferEventWithED1+c1 ) Followup: MachineOwner ---------[/quote] Code: fffff803`91086108 fffff801`91e8117fUnable to load image \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\rtwlanu.sys, Win32 error 0n2 *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for rtwlanu.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for rtwlanu.sys rtwlanu+0xc117f[/quote]

 

Yes. I plug the ZyXEL wireless adaptor in usb3 port because it sold as AC1200 usb 3.0 adaptor: http://www.amazon.com/ZyXEL-Dual-Ban.../dp/B00D7FSRGE

I will plug it to a usb 2.0 port to see if any different. Thanks for your help!

 

The driver is marked as USB2 adapter.

• What is rtwlanu.sys ? | System Explorer
• Rtwlanu.sys driver | What is Rtwlanu.sys file?
  
• Driver Reference Table

That is why I am suggesting it.

If it does not change the situation, let us see the further dumps.

 

Thanks. I plug the adaptor to a usb 2.0 port, so far the system works well. But I may need several days to make sure the BSOD gone because it may happened after 2 or 3 days or even a week. By the way, I saw the most recently crash caused by the USBXHCI.SYS, and the other crash caused by Wdf01000.sys. Did you think that casued by the wireless adaptor also?

 

That's right .... you need to give it a time to decide about the result.

The Wdf01000.sys is not a right reason of the BSOD. Perhaps that crash failed to find the crasher and blamed the Kernel Mode Driver Framework Runtime wrongly.

USBXHCI is definitely related to this issue. It is the USB3 host controller driver, where the network adapter was plugged in.

 

So far no problem about 1 day. I noticed there is a warining related to usb:

The driver \Driver\WudfRd failed to load for the device SWD\WPDBUSENUM\_??_USBSTOR#Disk&Ven_Generic&Prod_STORAGE_DEVICE&Rev_0903#000000000903&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}.

Not sure if I can ignore this, it looks the system runing fine. every device in computer works well.

 

You may ignore this event log.

 

So far a month no problem at all. Thanks!

 

Welcome. *Smile Let us know for any further issue.