Vista x64 random boot up BSOD

[cool1007]

Hello, I have Vista 64, 4gig of ram, a Phenom 9550 Quadcore and a nvidia 8800gt video card. Recently I have started having random Windows boot up BSOD (windows loads my desktop, works fine for 5-10 min. until the BSOD shows), which after the reboot, boots normally.

Problem Reports and Solutions has this information about the crash:

BCCode: 1000007e
BCP1: FFFFFFFFC000001D
BCP2: FFFFFA6000000000
BCP3: FFFFFA6001BCD358
BCP4: FFFFFA6001BCCD30
OS Version: 6_0_6001
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 256_1

Hope you can help me figure it out.

 

[nobardin]

Minidump 010809-01
BUGCHECK_STR: 0x7E
Probably caused by : epfwtdi.sys

epfwtdi.sys is a driver file belonging to ESS Personal firewall

Possible Solutions:

1: Uninstall ESS firewall, restart your computer and reinstall it. A driver file may have gotten corrupted.

2: Uninstall ESS firewall and get Comodo or ZoneAlarm (one or the other..not both) They are both free firewalls that are recommended by users of techspot.

3: Uninstall ESS firewall and use the windows firewall.

The choice is yours.

After doing one of the above stated please post back and let us know if the issue was resolved or not

 

[cool1007]

So sorry for not posting back as soon as this was solved. I did an uninstal of ESET and installed the latest version 3.0.684.0. That fixed the problem. Thanks a lot.

 

[Route44]

cool1007, I don't mean to hijack your thread but I noticed you run ESET. I have the BOD32 antivirus version 2.7. Was this your problem or was it an earlier 3.0 version?

I'm waiting for 4.0 to get out of Beta.

 

[cool1007]

No need to apologize. I had installed an earlier 3.0 version (original, by the way, not hacked or torrented )