Re: Blue Screen of Death after closing BF2042 *FIX HAS BEEN FOUND*

Honestly, I am not playing until this gets resolved. Stopping the drivers and putting them on manual is causing constant 

Error code 2: File Not Found - AsIO3.sys!! error and when you close it, it appears after a while again. This one is on EA to fix, not ASUS.

@TIDDLES1  You're welcome, glad I could be of assistance. It's such a ridiculous bug to begin with.

@Cypress_CH  You must be kind of young.

These drivers you speak of, have been around the block for quite some time.

It's not recent.

Yes, the drivers can control other things... however, it's only for interaction - IE the user adjusting something through the bios right from windows desktop.

Many ppl like the integration. Some don't. They don't really give power-users much functionality, so they may be included within setup.exe's but are never used.

And I don't understand why you are suggesting other people to DOWNLOAD 3rd-party software to disable something that can very easily be done by hand, with just a simple rename. But it does tell me a lot about your level of 'systems understanding'.

I can appreciate your thoroughness in wanting to help fix things, for sure. But there are much better approaches to this issue.

And nothing needs to be 'downloaded' to temporarily rectify this problem.

As always in the tech world...

Mitigate and reduce the problem/s to its simplest form.

Always carry out the easiest solution, with the least amount of changes to the system.... (and, Document your changes)

"Because if it's not broke, there's no reason to fix it."

A final note,

In my 40+ hours of solving this I have not come across a single comment from anyone using ASROCK mb's.

However, ASROCK(a low quality OEM board manufacturer. Fry's used to give them away with CPU purchases. Half the time, they never worked.) is a sister company of ASUS, in a way.
Research it.

@Rand0m_Digits Thanks for your post and also for calling me kinda young.

I don't know your age, but if you call me young in my forties, I guess I have to appreciate that.

I know that these drivers have been around for several years, where did I mention those are recent?!

What I mentioned was that the problem with the BSOD and stop code: KERNEL APC PENDING DURING EXIT when exiting BF2042 started recently when Season 06 was released, more specifically when EA switched from Easy Anti-Cheat to the EA Kernel Anti-Cheat.

I don't like the integration either (and the additional bloatware it installs), which is also why I no longer have it installed (I had it installed when I first set up the computer, but I uninstalled it immediately).

The reason I suggested third-party software, which by the way are all legitimate tech tools, is because sometimes it is easier for a non-technical person to use the third-party software instead of the on-board Windows tools like msconfig, PowerShell, driverquery or devcon cmd etc.

I'm not here to argue with you about my level of "systems understandig" as you called it, but just as you can't understand me suggesting third-party software, I can't understand why you're recommending renaming drivers when there could be still software installed which relies on those drivers which could then lead to additional errors. Have you thought about that?

Now I could also say that your way of solving the problem is a lazy way, but that's not what I want at all and it's not my intention at all (don't get me wrong, I'm really not here to argue, I'm too old for that). I just want to show that you have to think outside the box and there can still be dependencies.

Ultimately, I think everyone here is old enough to decide for themselves how they want to solve the problem.

Regarding ASROCK:

I experienced such a case, but it turned out that the user switched from an Asus motherboard to an ASROCK motherboard due to a defect without reinstalling Windows and guess what: the drivers and software were still loaded, although these were obsolete. In this case, a special scenario, but not out of the question.

i did all the things regarding the asus drivers disabling but i get a popup every 5 minutes when playing saying there's an error from asus_framework.exe do you know how i could prevent the popups?