flynn017

Overview: This bugcheck largely concerns the storage stack and the hard-drive or file system. I'm going to explain the aspects of the storage stack and the file system, and also a particular error message which a user has just had. I'm also currently downloading a 'real situation' Kernel Memory dump which is hopefully a Stop 0x7A, so this post may be edited later too. With these kind of bugchecks, you'll be lucky to have a dump file saved as a result of the nature of the problem. I'm just going to explain how it's caused and some of the methods we can be used to troubleshoot the problem. Generally, this bugcheck is caused by a serious virus infection or failing HDD/SSD and/or a corrupted filesystem. In a single sentence, the kernel wasn't able to page data from the page file stored on the hard-drive back into physical memory, as a result of a problem with the storage stack.  Storage Stack:   The above diagram illustrates how the storage stack looks and...