Hello,

I was hoping someone could help me out here. Let me describe the issue. For quite a while I was using Windows 8.1 fine and did not have any problems, however I recently burned my PSU somehow and then the problems started. Which I somewhy find odd, cause the BSoD's are related to a driver issue(?). The driver which seems to cause the problem, is Intel(R) Engine Management Interface.

"This device cannot start. (Code 10)

A device which does not exist was specified"

Event Viewer displays the following error:
"Intel(R) Engine Management Interface driver has failed to perform a handshake with the Firmware."

Since it says "A device which does not exist was specified.", I assume I don't need this driver at all, so I tried disabling it and uninstalling, but it keeps coming back every time I restart my PC. I even tried looking for a newer driver, but couldn't find anything. The newest driver is for Windows 7 x64/x86. I found out you could possibly disable it in bios, but I couldn't find the option to do so in my bios. I went thru every option 1 by 1, just to make sure, I wouldn't miss it.

Here's my PC:

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2 (F4 BIOS)
CPU: Intel i3 540 @ 3.07GHz (Overclocked to 4,03GHz)
Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (GV-N660OC-2GD)
RAM: 2 x Kingston 4GB 1333MHz DDR3
HDD: Western Digital 500GB

At the very moment, I have installed a fresh copy of Windows 8.1 Professional x64 and the problem still seems to exist. I have tried and googled for everything I can think off, now I'm just stuck at this problem.

I hope someone can help me out here, or at the very least, guide me in the right direction.

Link to minidump: http://1drv.ms/1H6E4uh

• Edited by HaiK1NG 12 hours 53 minutes ago Added download for minidump

  We do need the actual log files (called a DMP files) as they contain the only record of the sequence of events leading up to the crash, what drivers were loaded, and what was responsible.  

Please follow our instructions for finding and uploading the files we need to help you fix your computer. They can be found here If you have any questions about the procedure please ask

I'm sorry, it said I'm not allowed to post links and/or images until my account has been approved as I was posting this question. I've uploaded 3 BSoD mini dumps in a zip file to my OneDrive, however I believe the first one (oldest), might be related to something else (random).

I would also like to add, that I sometimes have trouble starting windows, as it freezes/hangs at loading screen, where the circle goes around. As well as sometimes the computer just randomly restarting w/o a blue screen or anything at all (instantly). Sometimes it freezes the screen, where it should show a blue screen, but it doesn't. After a short period of time, it restarts PC and a mini dump is created (despite the fact, I didn't see an actual blue screen, just a frozen image of what I was viewing at the moment of crash).

Here's a link to download: http://1drv.ms/1H6E4uh

• Edited by HaiK1NG 13 hours 37 minutes ago

HK1

If you cannot post a link

You can replace https: with hxxp:

I was able to post the link now, looking forward to any information regarding a possible fix to the issue, as the frequent restarts and blue screens are quite annoying. It also seems to crash and bring a BSoD every time I start Wampserver.

These crashes were related to memory corruption (probably caused by a driver). 

Please run these two tests to verify your memory and find which driver is causing the problem.  Please run verifier first.  You do not need to run memtest yet unless you want to.

If you are over-clocking anything reset to default before running these tests.
In other words STOP!!!  

If you do not know what this means you probably are not


1-Driver verifier (for complete directions see our wiki here)
2-Memtest. (You can read more about running memtest here)