Solved BSOD athwbx.sys bad pool header

Kyouma

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hi guyz!
i never had such an issue before but from last night my pc gives BSOD right after some time of start. it was giving it like after every 5 mins of boot.I have been digging the issue all night and here is what i have done so far
  • booted on safe mode with networking
  • used nirsoft bluescreenview, turned out that culprit was athwbx.sys (Qualcomm Atheros USB Wireless LAN device driver)
  • updated driver(nothing happened) so rolled back
  • ran sfc and found some files were corrupt
  • refreshed windows (nothing achieved)
  • reset windows and it worked fine for a while but than again i encountered BSOD (same cause)
for now BSOD still appears with same cause but now my computer keeps running for some time though. so here i am , thanks in advance for assistance .
I will report back once BSOD appears again.
 

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  • OS
    windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
You have 2 BSOD's in the ZIP file and both were caused by athuwb.sys (dated 11/20/2013) driver from Qualcomm Atheros AR9271 Wireless Network Adapter
Please update the driver !!!
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1x64PWMC Ubuntu14.04x64 MintMate17x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Brewed
    CPU
    I7 4970K OC'ed @4.7 GHz
    Motherboard
    MSI-Z97
    Memory
    16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual HP-W2408
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200
    Hard Drives
    256 GB M2 sm951, (2) 500GB 850EVO, 5TB, 2 TB Seagate
    PSU
    Antec 850W
    Case
    Antec 1200
    Cooling
    Danger Den H20
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitech Performance Mouse MX
    Internet Speed
    35/12mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
drivers are up to date :(

i will post back after running those scans. thanks^^
 

My Computer

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  • OS
    windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
saw that you've already updated the driver. You might want to run from Admin Command:
  1. dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
  2. sfc /scannow

You might have to run sfc a few times until you get a message: no integrity violation .... as shown below:

View attachment 60930
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1x64PWMC Ubuntu14.04x64 MintMate17x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Brewed
    CPU
    I7 4970K OC'ed @4.7 GHz
    Motherboard
    MSI-Z97
    Memory
    16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual HP-W2408
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200
    Hard Drives
    256 GB M2 sm951, (2) 500GB 850EVO, 5TB, 2 TB Seagate
    PSU
    Antec 850W
    Case
    Antec 1200
    Cooling
    Danger Den H20
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitech Performance Mouse MX
    Internet Speed
    35/12mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
In addtion, download: CrystalDiskInfo6_3_2.zip - CrystalDiskInfo. Unzip and run to see if your HD's are in good health and also from Admin Command, run: chkdsk /r C:. This will take a while to complete so you might want to let it run over night since it does the surface scan and marks all the bad spots on your HD so Windows will not use them.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1x64PWMC Ubuntu14.04x64 MintMate17x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Brewed
    CPU
    I7 4970K OC'ed @4.7 GHz
    Motherboard
    MSI-Z97
    Memory
    16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual HP-W2408
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200
    Hard Drives
    256 GB M2 sm951, (2) 500GB 850EVO, 5TB, 2 TB Seagate
    PSU
    Antec 850W
    Case
    Antec 1200
    Cooling
    Danger Den H20
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitech Performance Mouse MX
    Internet Speed
    35/12mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
aye aye! i will do that :) THAAAANKS^^

RESULTS: HD status came up good :)
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
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