Running latest version of the Intel drivers for Windows 10 64bit, 18.40.0.9. (as of Mar 29, 2016). My computer keeps BSOD every few hours, making the system almost unusable and getting very frustrating. I've opened a service support case already #00345567. Even with the older version of the driver, same issue persists. Perhaps anyone here has seen this as well and as a solution?
Each program that I find to analyze the minidump files (5 in the past 2 days), identifies the culprit in each minidump as the following:
On Tue 2016-03-29 2:26:56 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\032916-5859-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: netwtw04.sys (Netwtw04+0x32DC2)
Bugcheck code: 0xD1 (0x8, 0x2, 0x0, 0xFFFFF80194C10E28)
Error: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\netwtw04.sys
product: Intel® Wireless WiFi Link Adapter
company: Intel Corporation
description: Intel® Wireless WiFi Link Driver
Bug check description: This indicates that a kernel-mode driver attempted to access pageable memory at a process IRQL that was too high.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: netwtw04.sys (Intel® Wireless WiFi Link Driver, Intel Corporation).
Google query: Intel Corporation DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Computer specs:
Windows version: Windows 10 , 10.0, build: 10586
Windows dir: C:\Windows
Hardware: Z170N-Gaming 5, Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
CPU: GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600 CPU @ 3.30GHz Intel586, level: 6
4 logical processors, active mask: 15
RAM: 17127149568 bytes total