Windows 10: Installing Wrong Driver Caused WDF_VIOLATION

I was having trouble with my Lenovo Legion Y520 laptop Elan touchpad. It would activate anything the cursor traveled over. Long story short: Tried various drivers from the Lenovo website but to no avail. I googled the problem and came across some Elan drivers on Softpedia site (I think). Install the latest driver, ignored the warning about it may not work (something like that) and restarted. I know I was foolish. I am even more foolish in that I had installed Macrium Reflect 2 days ago but had not yet made an image.

I am stuck in a boot loop with the WDF_VIOLATION message. This is what I have done, to no avail:

Can't boot into safe mode, the BSOD happens before getting to it.

System Restore won't work as it gives me an error (0x80070003).

Booted with the Macrium Rescue USB stick and tried to repair the boot menu. It says it has deleted the old and made the new but still get the BSOD

Downloaded Kyhi Boot DVD/USB from this forum and formatted the USB stick as FAT32 and copied the .iso on to it.
Tried booting with it but no go. I get a message that there is no USB boot on the laptop.
I go into the BIOS only to find that the USB boot option has gone. It was there before as changing the boot order to the USB, was one of the first things I did with this laptop when I bought it. There in no optical drive.

With no USB stick connected, I can get to the Recovery options where I can choose to Refresh windows without touching files, etc and I can also get to choose to install from the Lenovo Recovery partition. I assume they would work or maybe not and get back to the BSOD loop.

Is there any way I can get to uninstall that driver without going down the Refresh/ Restore option?

Anyway to bring back the USB boot option?

I came across another Y520 owner having a missing USB option and he was able to get it back by doing some BIOS changes, which I will do at a last resort. See here, 3rd post down: Solved: Lenovo Legion Y520 Missing USB in Boot Menu - Lenovo Community

Even if I am able to get the USB boot option back and can boot into the Kyhi software, will that enable me to uninstall the driver? The only way I know how to uninstall it is through the Device Manager. Will I be able to access that option using the Kyhi software?

Any suggestion folks or am I in a corner?
Off to bed as it is 1.55 am and I have a headache.... wonder what caused that... lol

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WDF_violation

Hi Rick,

I will be glad to help you with the issue you have with the computer. I understand the inconvenience caused.

The WDF_VIOLATION bug check has a value of 0x0000010D. This indicates that Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF) detected that Windows found an error in a framework-based driver.

I suggest you to follow the below link to troubleshoot with BSOD:

windows 10 installation fails "pagefault_in_non-paged_area" pssnap.sys

Please reply with the results, we will be glad to help you further.

Thank you.

 

Windows 7 wont install drivers

+1

If you having an issue installing a driver that worked before you formatted or wont install on a fresh build, sometimes this means hardware damage