BSOD 0x000000d6 ntkrnlpa.exe

Hi everyone,

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I'm working on my mother in law's Dell Inspiron 1720, running Vista Home edition.

It was repeatedly BSOD'ing so after running some tests we agreed to factory restore. So I used the Dell utility and formatted the HDD and re-installed Vista.

Looking around the forums a Memtest86+ looked like a good idea + a cpu test. 7 passes were completed of the memtest - no errors. CPU load test (Prime95) ran successfully with no issues.

Driver verifier enabled to check all drivers except Microsoft. The following BSOD's have been recorded, generally triggered by the opening of SpeedFan. The last 4 (after verifier enabled) in BlueScreenView (sorry for the formatting) have been this:

Mini110113-06.dmp 01/11/2013 19:22:21

DRIVER_PAGE_FAULT_BEYOND_END_OF_ALLOCATION

0x000000d6 0xb4643000 0x00000001 0x8067b731 0x00000000 ntkrnlpa.exe ntkrnlpa.exe+a9ef2

NT Kernel & System Microsoft® Windows® Operating System Microsoft Corporation 6.0.6000.16551 (vista_gdr.070828-1515) 32-bit ntkrnlpa.exe+a9ef2 ntkrnlpa.exe+8fbb4 iastor.sys+38731 iastor.sys+38235 C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini110113-06.dmp 2 15 6000 139,176 01/11/2013 19:24:49

Two before that:

Mini110113-02.dmp 01/11/2013 13:39:01

SPECIAL_POOL_DETECTED_MEMORY_CORRUPTION

0x000000c1 0xcbaaaf68 0x00000000 0x00000098 0x00000022 ntkrnlpa.exe ntkrnlpa.exe+d8681

NT Kernel & System Microsoft® Windows® Operating System Microsoft Corporation 6.0.6000.16551 (vista_gdr.070828-1515) 32-bit ntkrnlpa.exe+d8681 ntkrnlpa.exe+e1ca5 ntkrnlpa.exe+e7c54 ntkrnlpa.exe+2d5995 C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini110113-02.dmp 2 15 6000 139,176 01/11/2013 13:40:58

First one recorded after O/S re-install

Mini103113-01.dmp 31/10/2013 21:24:36

0x000000c5 0xa4fc08d8 0x00000002 0x00000001 0x81ce88d9 fltmgr.sys fltmgr.sys+2685

Microsoft Filesystem Filter Manager Microsoft® Windows® Operating System Microsoft Corporation 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) 32-bit ntkrnlpa.exe+8fd84 ntkrnlpa.exe+e88d9 ntkrnlpa.exe+e8322 ntkrnlpa.exe+1f6059 C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini103113-01.dmp 2 15 6000 139,176 31/10/2013 21:25:55

Windows has been updated and I can't see any new drivers on the Dell site.

Would anyone out there be able to suggest the next diagnostic steps I could take?

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