Recent content by Apples555

Dare I say it, its a wrap. Without an optical drive, the stuttering and BSODs are completely gone. I've tried everything I can to get it to crash but have not been successful. I'll keep running without an optical drive for some time to confirm then work on getting the optical drive back in...

Just for kicks, I tried removing the HDD cable as the machine was playing music. It didn't even BSOD. It just stopped playing music after a while. When I plugged the cable back in, everything went back to normal. Certainly different from the OD stuttering. I'll keep this thread updated! Now...

So the BSODs did not return, but the characteristic audio stuttering did, so I flipped over the machine with music playing, and started looking at things. I took the HDD, moved it around and didn't get much of a reaction. Then, on a whim, I disconnected the idling optical drive. This produced...

Of course. Thank you for your help!

Yes it is. The SSD is currently in an external enclosure. I'll keep using the HDD to make sure the BSOD doesn't show up again, then I'll reinstall clean onto the SSD and hope it works.

I can't reproduce the issue with a mechanical HDD.

Tossed in another old HDD and Windows is running. Had one BSOD from a bad IR receiver driver (from Apple) but so far so good. Developments to come...

Well, install crashed with disk read errors. At least, it wasn't a BSOD. I think the drive's age is a factor. I put the SSD back in. Let's see how the insulated cable does.

UPDATE: I swapped in an old Seagate mechanical drive for the SSD and got a bunch of strange hardware BSODs during Windows setup and 'disk missing' errors in OS X. Windows even refused to install and would sporadically even detect the HDD. Running OS X off the SSD in an enclosure, I checked the...

Nope, the wireless driver doesn't solve anything. Lol. That's the next step I guess.

Those directories are empty, they're probably left over from a past driver installation. DDU did not delete them for some reason. The control panel is a required install for the driver however.

What do you mean? I only install the graphics driver, I don't need PhysX and all that other stuff.

Fair enough, it's all the same error. We may have been chasing the wrong mouse. I came across this article about the 2009 MB (which has the same motherboard as my 2010 MBP), and realized that the crashes always occurred when downloading something. In fact, it usually happened on Youtube. That...

Dang it, it just happened again! 111815-6562-01.dmp 11/18/2015 8:54:05 PM 0x00000133 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000501 00000000`00000500 00000000`00000000 hal.dll hal.dll+539a x64 ntoskrnl.exe+14e8a0...

The more expensive MacBooks had those, but my 2010 13" only has the 320m. While cruising around the settings, I turned off Nvidia's power management. It's been 2 days and the system has been stable. I'll report back if it crashes or stutters again. On a side note, is my system overheating? At...