Windows 10: I've been getting BSOD for a week now, I think a "corrupt PTE" is the cause.

1. Almost everything in my PC is less than 2 years old. The exceptions being the old hard drive, power supply, and Graphics Card. 2. I ran Windows Memory Diagnostic and it reported a hardware error. Would this mean my RAM is bad or could it be another issue?3. The crashes where almost daily when I used Chrome and I had tabs crash constantly as well. When I moved to Firefox everything seem to have stopped, till this morning when it crashed after about 4 days of working fine. MEMORY_MANAGEMENT 1a # Any other values for parameter 1&nbs

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BSOD errors SYSTEM PTE MISUSE and many other crashes with different names.

Hello. For the past week ive been getting random crashes. I think its because of updating my Nvidia drivers but im not 100% sure. here are the notable crash logs ive gathered from Windows/Minidump:

Microsoft OneDrive

I've also made a report yesterday about this. The link can be found here:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/random-bsod-error-called-system-pte-misuse/f808d4e5-1b22-4c94-b67a-3c054d8ae969



Thank you.

 

Random BSOD while browsing internet


BitDefender is nothing special. mwac.sys causes BSODs anywhere.
A tiny documentation can be found here: Solved Random BSODs - Windows 10 Forums
In that very thread, the suggested action apparently worked.

The storage and network filters of any third party antivirus can cause BSODs. Neither MBAM nor BitDefender is any special. For a regular antivirus, it may be shifted to an alternative; but MBAM has no alternative. So a clean install of the said program is the most feasible first step.
As far as the first step is not failing, it is better to not think for the second step. Because the BSODs are not universal, failure at the first step is not universal; and success at the second step is also not universal.
That is why I posted that my suggestion may work, or may not. Let us see where it goes.

 

BSODs with corrupt pagefile - Is That Possible?

Past couple of days I have been having random BSODS. A few examples of the messages was - Memory management / IRQL less than or equal to/ Thread could not be activated/ Page Pool something or other.

First BSODS I have had on this relatively new system so decided to take everything back to stock and test each part. I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit BTW.

HDtune error check - fine
Memtest86 - 10 passes fine
Prime 95 - 7hrs overnight fine
Graphics card - furmark/3DMark fine

Go to play a bit of WOW last night and it locks up straight away with memory management issue. So I looked into it a bit and read that it could possibly be a virtual memory/pagefile issue and that if it is corrupted it may cause these issues.

I then set the pagefile to zero and enabled clear pagefile on shutdown in the registry. When it rebooted I let the amount be set by Windows and disabled the registry entry for clearing it on shutdown and will see how it goes.

I had never heard of this issue before causing BSODS, is it common and what should be the next step if I get another one today with the new pagefile in place?