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I am having frequent Blue Screens of Death on my new Windows 8 Dell XPS 13 UltraBook. The specifics:
Hardware (screenshot of device manager with what I think are the most relevant items expanded):
Software: OS: Windows 8 Applications: Web browsers, development tools (Prolog, Eclipse, etc..)
More specificically, BSOD occurs almost always on every third time I try to log in to my machine on startup. As I type my password in or just after I have finished typing my password, I get the BSOD always with "DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION". At times, it also happens every second time but has never happened on consecutive times that I log in. I have no idea if that has any relevance or is even a valid pattern.
To diagnose the issue, I downloaded WhoCrashed and it told me this:
On Sun 2013-03-24 2:52:26 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\032413-6218-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x7A040)
Bugcheck code: 0x133 (0x0, 0x281, 0x280, 0x0)
Error: DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION
file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT Kernel & System
Bug check description: The DPC watchdog detected a prolonged run time at an IRQL of DISPATCH_LEVEL or above.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. This problem might be caused by a thermal issue.
The crash took place in the Windows kernel. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver that cannot be identified at this time.
On Sun 2013-03-24 2:52:26 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: usbmac64.sys (USBMAC64+0x5B96)
Bugcheck code: 0x133 (0x0, 0x281, 0x280, 0x0)
Error: DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\usbmac64.sys
product: --
company: --
description: NDIS 5.0 driver
Bug check description: The DPC watchdog detected a prolonged run time at an IRQL of DISPATCH_LEVEL or above.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. This problem might be caused by a thermal issue.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: usbmac64.sys (NDIS 5.0 driver, --).
Google query: -- DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION
I am not quite sure how to proceed. I used Dell System Detect to check if I have all the updated drivers for my machine and I do.
Appreciate any input on this.
EDIT: Added a link to all the .dmp files relevant to this issue here
ignore those buggy tools. Open the dmp files with Windg. if you're unsure, upload all dmp files, so that I can look at them. – magicandre1981 – 2013-03-24T17:19:19.003
"Probably caused by ntoskrnl.exe" is what one of the .dmp files tells me. However, here is a link to all the .dmp files that are relevant to this issue
– karancan – 2013-03-24T17:50:01.583