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    BSOD referencing iastor.sys after installing Visual Studio 2005 SP1

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by mas1974, Oct 1, 2008.

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    I have an X61 Tablet running Vista Business SP1.

    I recently tried to install Visual Studio 2005 Pro. Before the installation, I checked that there existed several prior restore points using System Restore. This installation went fine. During the install Windows notified me that there were incompatibilities between VS2005 and Vista which are corrected by the latest SP and update to the SP.

    After installing the application, I downloaded and installed the service pack and rebooted. When the computer rebooted, I got the BSOD with the following error:

    *** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0x8284A251, 0x803994C8, 0x803991C4)

    *** iastor.sys - Address 8284A251 base at 82809000, DateStamp 46ff320c

    I tried booting into System Recovery and restoring to a previous restore point, but the only point that was visible was the one created immediately prior to this installation. I restored to that point but got the same error. No other restore points are visible.

    I tried booting into Safe Mode but get the same error.

    I downloaded the latest Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver from Intel (more recent than the one available from Lenovo) and installed that, but again I get the same error.

    I tried renaming iastor.sys to iastor.sys.bak -- I still get a BSOD but with a different error, STOP: 0x0000007B.

    I am about at the end of the solutions I can think of. Can you think of anything I haven't tried?
     
    mas1974, Oct 1, 2008
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