BSOD DPC_WATCHDOG after updating to Windows 8.1

gavrhen · Nov 30, 2013

I have been having seemingly random BSOD DPC_WATCHDOG ever since I updated to Windows 8.1. This can occur either when I'm playing games, using Visual Studio 2012, or browsing the web.

Any help would be great.

usasma · Dec 1, 2013

Only 19 Windows Updates installed. Most systems have about 26. Please visit Windows Update and get ALL available updates (it may take several trips to get them all).

F: drive only has about 2% free space (and other drives are lacking free space also). Windows likes 15% free space in order to perform stuff "behind the scenes" without adversely affecting the system's performance. Please free up 15% on ALL hard drives (you can get away with 10% on larger drives and won't notice a large performance penalty)

You have 5 hard drives. What is the make/model/wattage and age of your Power Supply?

SSD's were temperamental when they first came out, but their reliability has improved greatly over the last year or two. There are 2 things that MUST be checked on systems with BSOD's and SSD's:

1) That the SSD firmware is the latest available for the SSD. I usually can't see this info in the reports, so I rely on you to check it.
2) That the storage controller drivers on the motherboard are the most recent. They must date from late 2012 or later. This is ALL controllers, not just the one that the SSD is attached to. If involved these should be visible in the memory dump - but it doesn't hurt to check manually.

Many, many Live Kernel Events in the WER section of MSINFO32
Please do the following:
- open Event Viewer (run eventvwr.msc from the "Run" dialog))
- expand the Custom Views category (left click on the > next to the words "Custom Views")
- right click on Administrative Events
- select "Save all Events in Custom View as..."
- save the file as Admin.evtx
- zip up the file (right click on it, select "Send to", select "Compressed (zipped) folder")
- upload it with your next post (if it's too big, then upload it to a free file-hosting service and post a link here).

Daemon Tools (and Alcohol % software) are known to cause BSOD's on some Windows systems (mostly due to the sptd.sys driver, although I have seen dtsoftbus01.sys blamed on several occasions).

Please un-install the program, then use the following free tool to ensure that the troublesome sptd.sys driver is removed from your system (pick the 32 or 64 bit system depending on your system's configuration): ~~[DEL] DuplexSecure - FAQ [/DEL]~~ Link broken as of 21 Jul 2012
New link (15 Aug 2012): DuplexSecure - Downloads (pick the appropriate version for your system and select "Un-install" when you run it).
Alternate link: Disk-Tools.com
Manual procedure here: Registry and SPTD problems | DAEMON Pro Help

MSI Afterburner (along with Riva Tuner and EVGA Precision) are known to cause BSOD's in some Windows systems (it's driver is usually RTCore64.sys). Please un-install it immediately!

If you're overclocking, please stop the overclock while we're troubleshooting. Feel free to resume the overclock once the system has been stabilized.

Marvell storage controller driver dates from 2011 - these are known to cause issues w/SSD's. Please update to a later, Win8.1 compatible version immediately.

Please update these older drivers. Links are included to assist in looking up the source of the drivers. If unable to find an update, please remove (un-install) the program responsible for that driver. DO NOT manually delete/rename the driver as it may make the system unbootable! :

lirsgt.sys Sun May 17 09:06:57 2009 (4A100BF1)
part of a Copy Protection platform developed by Tages SA
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=lirsgt.sys

atksgt.sys Sun May 17 09:36:34 2009 (4A1012E2)
part of a Copy Protection platform developed by Tages SA
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=atksgt.sys

PxHlpa64.sys Tue Jun 23 19:16:35 2009 (4A416253)
Sonic CD/DVD driver (used by many different CD/DVD programs)
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=PxHlpa64.sys

cpuz133_x64.sys Tue Mar 30 17:34:16 2010 (4BB26E58)
CPU-Z CPU monitor
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=cpuz133_x64.sys

mvxxmm.sys Sun Mar 6 21:13:21 2011 (4D743F41)
Marvell Aux NV Bridge DLL - related to mv91xx SCSI HD Controller
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=mvxxmm.sys

mvs91xx.sys Sun Mar 6 21:13:40 2011 (4D743F54)
Marvell 91xx SATA Controller Driver
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=mvs91xx.sys

speedfan.sys Fri Mar 18 12:08:46 2011 (4D83838E)
SpeedFan
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=speedfan.sys

cpuz135_x64.sys Wed Sep 21 04:23:41 2011 (4E799F0D)
CPU-Z CPU monitor
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=cpuz135_x64.sys

vmm.sys Wed Dec 28 08:28:47 2011 (4EFB198F)
Virtual Machine Monitor driver - Microsoft Virtual PC 2004
http://www.carrona.org/drivers/driver.php?id=vmm.sys

Please note the drivers below that date from before the release of Windows 8.1 (17 Oct 2013) - check to see that each and every one is compatible w/Windows 8.1 (at the manufacturer's website). If not, you must either remove the device and it's software - or locate a Windows 8.1 compatible update on the web.

If all of this doesn't stop the BSOD's, please run Driver Verifier according to these instructions: Driver Verifier Settings

Analysis:
The following is for informational purposes only.

Code:

[FONT=lucida console]**************************Sat Nov 30 13:47:54.183 2013 (UTC - 5:00)**************************
Loading Dump File [C:\Users\John\SysnativeBSODApps\113013-14265-01.dmp]
Windows 8 Kernel Version 9600 MP (4 procs) Free x64
Built by: [B]9600[/B].16422.amd64fre.winblue_gdr.131006-1505
System Uptime:[B]0 days 3:05:21.891[/B]
Probably caused by :[B]Unknown_Image ( ANALYSIS_INCONCLUSIVE )[/B]
BugCheck [B]133, {1, 1e00, 0, 0}[/B]
BugCheck Info: [URL="http://www.carrona.org/bsodindx.html#0x00000133"]DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION (133)[/URL]
Arguments: 
Arg1: 0000000000000001, The system cumulatively spent an extended period of time at
    DISPATCH_LEVEL or above. The offending component can usually be
    identified with a stack trace.
Arg2: 0000000000001e00, The watchdog period.
Arg3: 0000000000000000
Arg4: 0000000000000000
BUGCHECK_STR:  0x133
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID:  WIN8_DRIVER_FAULT
PROCESS_NAME:  Rayman Legends
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: [B]ZEROED_STACK[/B]
CPUID:        "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         930  @ 2.80GHz"
MaxSpeed:     2800
CurrentSpeed: [B]2806[/B]
  BIOS Version                  0803   
  BIOS Release Date             08/06/2012
  Manufacturer                  System manufacturer
  Product Name                  System Product Name
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3rd Party Drivers:
The following is for information purposes only.
Any drivers in red should be updated or removed from your system. And should have been discussed in the body of my post.

Code:

[FONT=lucida console]**************************Sat Nov 30 13:47:54.183 2013 (UTC - 5:00)**************************
[COLOR=RED][B]lirsgt.sys             Sun May 17 09:06:57 2009 (4A100BF1)[/B][/COLOR]
[COLOR=RED][B]atksgt.sys             Sun May 17 09:36:34 2009 (4A1012E2)[/B][/COLOR]
[COLOR=RED][B]PxHlpa64.sys           Tue Jun 23 19:16:35 2009 (4A416253)[/B][/COLOR]
[COLOR=RED][B]cpuz133_x64.sys        Tue Mar 30 17:34:16 2010 (4BB26E58)[/B][/COLOR]
[COLOR=RED][B]mvxxmm.sys             Sun Mar  6 21:13:21 2011 (4D743F41)[/B][/COLOR]
[COLOR=RED][B]mvs91xx.sys            Sun Mar  6 21:13:40 2011 (4D743F54)[/B][/COLOR]
[COLOR=RED][B]speedfan.sys           Fri Mar 18 12:08:46 2011 (4D83838E)[/B][/COLOR]
[COLOR=RED][B]cpuz135_x64.sys        Wed Sep 21 04:23:41 2011 (4E799F0D)[/B][/COLOR]
[COLOR=RED][B]vmm.sys                Wed Dec 28 08:28:47 2011 (4EFB198F)[/B][/COLOR]
[COLOR=RED][B]dtsoftbus01.sys        Fri Jan 13 08:45:46 2012 (4F10358A)[/B][/COLOR]
point64.sys            Tue Sep 18 06:18:08 2012 (50584A60)
bdfwfpf.sys            Wed Oct 17 08:12:10 2012 (507EA09A)
avchv.sys              Wed Oct 31 13:05:22 2012 (50915A52)
ASACPI.sys             Thu Nov  1 21:54:34 2012 (509327DA)
emupia2k.sys           Tue Dec 18 06:56:26 2012 (50D059EA)
ctsfm2k.sys            Tue Dec 18 06:56:34 2012 (50D059F2)
ctoss2k.sys            Tue Dec 18 06:56:56 2012 (50D05A08)
ha20x22k.sys           Tue Dec 18 07:00:49 2012 (50D05AF1)
ctaud2k.sys            Tue Dec 18 07:02:52 2012 (50D05B6C)
ctprxy2k.sys           Tue Dec 18 07:02:56 2012 (50D05B70)
CTEXFIFX.SYS           Tue Dec 18 07:04:49 2012 (50D05BE1)
CT20XUT.SYS            Tue Dec 18 07:04:57 2012 (50D05BE9)
nvhda64v.sys           Sun Jun 16 08:38:07 2013 (51BDB1AF)
bdfndisf6.sys          Mon Jul  8 11:07:32 2013 (51DAD5B4)
avc3.sys               Fri Jul 19 09:38:03 2013 (51E9413B)
avckf.sys              Fri Jul 19 09:41:15 2013 (51E941FB)
trufos.sys             Wed Aug  7 06:46:25 2013 (52022581)
intelppm.sys           Thu Aug 22 04:46:35 2013 (5215CFEB)
xusb22.sys             Thu Aug 22 07:38:23 2013 (5215F82F)
vmbkmclr.sys           Thu Aug 22 07:39:04 2013 (5215F858)
winhvr.sys             Thu Aug 22 07:39:52 2013 (5215F888)
gzflt.sys              Fri Aug 23 06:48:49 2013 (52173E11)
Wnv.sys                Tue Oct  8 03:36:59 2013 (5253B61B)
nvlddmkm.sys           Sat Nov 23 11:28:53 2013 (5290D7C5)
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BSOD DPC_WATCHDOG after updating to Windows 8.1

gavrhen

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usasma

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