I doubt a hardware problem would be the cause of a failure of this driver. It's interesting that there appears to be a problem with the afd.sys (Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock) as I have posted on the forum regarding this driver before. ![]() Given that DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION errors are, I believe, primarily triggered by system calls not responding or taking an unexpectedly long time to respond, it is possible that your initial thoughts regarding an HDD fault could be valid. ![]() It's not inconceivable that a hardware failure could manifest itself as a hal.dll fault. ![]() In simple speak, it allows a common set of kernel routines to interface with many differing hardware components rather than needing to be individually tailored for each manufacturers hardware. Hal.dll is the Hardware Abstraction Layer dll that deals with interfacing between the kernel and the hardware.
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