Been trying to hunt down a memory leak for about a week now and I've finally narrowed it down to the storport.sys driver. Trouble is, this is a Microsoft driver for HDD storage ports. How do I go about redownloading this driver for replacement? I can't seem to find anything related on the Microsoft support page.
To back up my diagnosis, here's the long story of my troubleshooting:
Noticed computer would begin to lag severely after 3+ hours of if being turned on. Lag would progress till it froze, requiring hard reset. Activated MSI Afterburners RAM monitor to watch ram useage live while running other programs/games (Nothing is overclocked, using Afterburner solely for monitoring as it supports the LCD display on my Logitech G510). When RAM got to 10gb full, I'd kill all running/active programs to see if any of them were the culprit. Ram still wouldn't decrease in usage and Task Manager/Performance Monitor numbers didn't even add up to more that 1.5gb of ram in use.
Opened up poolmon to see what drivers are active and using the most ram which then pointed me to storport.sys using 8gb of unpaged memory.
So, once again, I need help in repairing/replacing the storport.sys driver. Any help on the matter would be very helpful.
To back up my diagnosis, here's the long story of my troubleshooting:
Noticed computer would begin to lag severely after 3+ hours of if being turned on. Lag would progress till it froze, requiring hard reset. Activated MSI Afterburners RAM monitor to watch ram useage live while running other programs/games (Nothing is overclocked, using Afterburner solely for monitoring as it supports the LCD display on my Logitech G510). When RAM got to 10gb full, I'd kill all running/active programs to see if any of them were the culprit. Ram still wouldn't decrease in usage and Task Manager/Performance Monitor numbers didn't even add up to more that 1.5gb of ram in use.
Opened up poolmon to see what drivers are active and using the most ram which then pointed me to storport.sys using 8gb of unpaged memory.
So, once again, I need help in repairing/replacing the storport.sys driver. Any help on the matter would be very helpful.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- AMD FX-8350
- Motherboard
- Asus Crosshair IV Extreme with Updated BIOS
- Memory
- 12 GB (3 X 4GB)
- Graphics Card(s)
- Radeon HD7950
- Hard Drives
- 2 X 1TB Seagate
- PSU
- Corsair 1000w
- Antivirus
- Malware Bytes and Windows Defender