Windows 10: Recurring BSOD Caused by onboard NIC spanning 2 PCs

Hello,

I was having a lot of blue screens about a year ago with a PC I had built related to the network adapters (wired, onboard adapters). Whenever I would launch a VPN or I would use VM software which would either use NAT or something similar to establish a network connection in my virtual machines, I would get a blue screen. At the same time on a separate PC I would get blue screens when doing the same thing. Without finding much help on the topic I resigned myself to a completely new build since it had been about 3-4 years since I had built the previous PC.

I built a new PC, and everything was fine for about 6 months. I upgraded my Windows 7 to Windows 10, and whether I used VPN or VMs, everything was fine. Now I am starting to see the same behavior on my Windows 10 machine (the network adapter I amusing is a wired, onboard Atheros NIC). The other machine in question currently has linux installed and runs my Plex server, so I don't really do anything else with it. The only piece of hardware that is the same from the 2 builds is my power supply.

I have attached the required files for posting BSODs, and previously I had tried attaching my NIC to my internal router and even the main router from FIOS itself without much difference. I can use a VPN now sometimes for a while, it seems very random and honestly very hard to diagnose (which is why I am asking for help from some of the experts here).

I am trying to figure out what could be causing this, and losing a lot of my hair because of it (well, I claim that's why I'm losing my hair anyway). I do not want to buy a new PC and since I upgraded from a MSDN copy of Windows 7 to 10, a clean install will not work for me as I already shelled out for 2 copies of Windows 10 Pro in my house, I am not keen on forking over money for another).

Could this be related to power somehow?
Should I ask Verizon for another router when no other network devices in my house (I have 2 other windows 10 PCs that don't run VPNs, but nonetheless have no problems)?

Any help is appreciated. I have searched high and low without finding a distinct cause as to why 2 completely separate machines would have the same problem. It's gotta be something that they had in common, right? (why I am asking about power and the router that sits between me and FIOS).

The problem started out like this on my prior machine, only happening infrequently and then became so bad I could not connect via a wired connection at all without a blue screen. The blue screens are 95% related to the network, but some other random ones have happened (which is to be expected I would imagine).

Thank you in advance for anyone able to shed some light on this.

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Random Mac for Onboard NIC

Hi

Does random mac feature applied to a laptop onboard NIC besides WiFi connection?

Reason I asked is that I already have this feature disabled for WiFi connection and I'm using onboard NIC, however I noticed from my DHCP leases, the mac shown from the connection is always different, it is not showing the physical mac for the onboard NIC.

-Thanks

 

Cannot access my internet

it is an onboard NIC

 

Please visit ASRock and make sure you update Intel Management Engine Interface drivers.

What VMware version are you using?
Some VMware drivers need updating for Windows 10 compatibility and 1 is flagged.
Code: ffffd000`222b0960 fffff801`7d316101Unable to load image vmnetuserif.sys, Win32 error 0n2 *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for vmnetuserif.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for vmnetuserif.sys vmnetuserif+0x6101[/quote] Please update your NIC drivers
Driver Reference Table - L1C62x64.sys
Code: *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for L1C62x64.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for L1C62x64.sys 10: kd> lmvm L1C62x64start end module name fffff800`66460000 fffff800`66482000 L1C62x64 T (no symbols) Loaded symbol image file: L1C62x64.sys Image path: L1C62x64.sys Image name: L1C62x64.sys Timestamp: Tue Jul 16 08:56:44 2013 (51E4EEAC) CheckSum: 0002912C ImageSize: 00022000 Translations: 0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4[/quote] Please update Wingate
Code: ffffd000`21e1bf20 fffff801`63ec2e01Unable to load image QbikHkVistaamd64.sys, Win32 error 0n2 *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for QbikHkVistaamd64.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for QbikHkVistaamd64.sys QbikHkVistaamd64+0x2e01 10: kd> lmvm QbikHkVistaamd64 start end module name fffff800`64ba0000 fffff800`64c11000 QbikHkVistaamd64 T (no symbols) Loaded symbol image file: QbikHkVistaamd64.sys Image path: QbikHkVistaamd64.sys Image name: QbikHkVistaamd64.sys Timestamp: Thu Jun 06 01:24:42 2013 (51AFC8BA) CheckSum: 0004A925 ImageSize: 00071000 Translations: 0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4[/quote]
All flagged drivers are persistent in the crashes of this year.