Windows 7 home ultimate
Mobo - ASRock N68C-S UCC
Issue - random BSOD. Most frequently if I try to download anything from any browser but it also BSOD at other times.
I get multiple different stop codes but most often I see at the bottom a reference to nvstor.sys
I reinstalled windows a while back hoping that would help but it didn't.
I used to have an NVidia graphics card and thought it might be the problem so I replaced it with an AMD card. No difference. Still get BSOD. I did completely wipe the old NVidia drivers and software.
After doing a bit of research I found that this is likely caused by the NVidia SATA drivers.
So, off I go to the ASRock site (»
www.asrock.com/mb/NVIDIA ··· &os=Win7) and find what I think are the right drivers.
Download and run setup.exe and I get BSOD.
Tried setup again and it won't run. Gives me an error.
So I tried just updating the drivers manually. Pointed it to the folder with the new drivers in it. Windows tells me I already have the best drivers installed.
The driver package from ASRock is 3/5/2010 Windows® 7 NVIDIA SATA2 driver ver:11.1.0.30
The driver I have installed is 10.6.0.18
Am I missing something here? Doing something wrong?
Here are screenshots of the device manager and the driver details
Device Manager
Driver details