Hello!
I had first Blue screen error about six months ago but at that time system ran fine after reboot albeit there have been progressive increase in boot time since the first error. I was asked to chek for the HDD error by HP support staff at that time and it came out clean. I was told not to worry about it much. Over next months this error and started occurring more frequently. Compelling me to monitor these episodes. There have been 8 BSoDs in last two months. These are all caused by ndis.sys, bcmwl664.sys or hal.dll. I'm not sure of other drivers identified at previous crashes since I didn't note them down. Crashes occur all of a sudden without any warning and occasionaly when trying to get back from sleep mode or idling dark screen. Besides these frequent crashes and random freezes I've following problems
1. Most windows update fail to configure after installing and are reverted
2. it takes excruciatingly long for system to boot with frequent mini freezes and frequent startup repairs.
3. At various points drivers for bluetooth, biometric device, consumer IR devices, wireless LAN adapters vanished just like that and hand to be downloaded again
4. I got shocked/zapped by my laptops on several occasions
5. I've noticed random overheating problems, sometimes fan make loud noises even as I'm booting
6. Not being able to connect with wifi while I can connect with ethernet. I've downloaded Broadcom drivers and installed them from HP website but once again they have vanished
7. Not being able to connect with bluetooth. HP connection manager says that it is tuned off by system.
I've restored my computer back to factory settings once. I use Avast! internet security and MBAM there are no major threat detected.
S.M.A.R.T. status as shown in HP support assistant is - Good while Speccy says - SMART status - warning
Memtest86+ passed twice with not errors detected
InsydeH2O BIOS scan for hard drive - Hard disk 1 full (305) error on 1 out 4 times I ran the test
Device manager doesn't enlist bluetooth and wireless LAN drivers. According to HP partsurfer this system has Broadcom 4313 802.11b/g/n 1x1 WiFi and 2070 Bluetooth 2.1+EDR combination adapter
dump files as seen in bluesscreenview (does not include two bsods due to bcmwl664.sys
Please help