Our agent on occasion will bring bugs in drivers up to the surface because we’re polling the drivers for their information to add to your asset page and to use for RMM alerts. The problem was likely there all the time, but other services didn’t pull that flaw up to the surface yet. The quickest way to resolve this is to reinstall/update the drivers.
The first step is to isolate the cause of the BSoD
- Download the Windows Debugger (WinDbg) here: Debugging Tools for Windows - Windows drivers | Microsoft Learn
- Open the crash dump file with WinDbg. This will be found in C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP
- Click !analyze -v to generate the report. This will generate a report that will pinpoint the cause of the BSoD. Here is a quick video of the process:
- Look for any driver or process names. Something similar to this can be found in the output:
IMAGE_NAME: pci.sys
MODULE_NAME: pci
or
IMAGE_NAME: IntcDAud.sys
MODULE_NAME: IntcDAud
Fixing the BSoD
Armed with the source of the BSoD, we can start resolving the issue. It is typically as simple as reinstalling/upgrading a driver. You can also do an Internet search for the name of the file/driver causing the error along with “BSoD”. Blue screens from certain sources are common and there are a lot of resources online to resolve the issue.
Please reach out to our support team with the memory dump analysis if there are still BSoDs after following these steps.