Aug 19, 2015

BSOD Wake from Sleep Windows 8.1 SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION :: FIXED

My laptop BSOD'd a few weeks ago, and I've been limping by in Safe Mode until today. I put my laptop to sleep, and upon wake, the laptop BSOD, and continued to do so every time I booted up. The only message displayed with SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION, and viewing the crash dump with BlueScreenView netted no results.

Another symptom: BSOD displayed CRITICAL_SERVICE_FAILED when trying to run a Chkdsk.

Laptop:
i7
8GB RAM
2 128GB RAID 0

Problem & Solution
Turns out the problem was a corrupted pagefile.sys file. When the laptop went to sleep, the pagefile.sys became corrupted, and every bootup after that, Windows would try to access the corrupted pagefile.sys and BSOD with SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION.

I disabled the pagefile, and the computer now boots up normally. I used the following tutorial on technet:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/danstolts/archive/2013/01/07/how_2d00_to_2d00_change_2d00_the_2d00_size_2d00_of_2d00_virtual_2d00_memory_2d00_pagefile_2d00_sys_2d00_on_2d00_windows_2d00_8_2d00_or_2d00_windows_2d00_server_2d00_2012.aspx