Hello Jesse13927,
as we have already discussed, this situation is related with something after "avgidseh.sys" has been started. From provided information (and logs in some cases with cooperative users) we have not found any possible culprit caused by AVG process(es). I tried several times to induce this situation on my computers, but I was not "successful". Could you please share with me websites, where this issue is well documented? (not just reported, but described what exactly happens on that computer, how to induce it, etc.).
If your statement were true, then tens millions of active AVG 2011 users would have already destroyed hard drive and cannot be active.
My personal suspicions are:
- conflict application
- corrupted system by other application
- (rootkit) infection, which is (was) blocked
- some unique environment for us, but common on affected computers
From test on my laptop started in Windows Safe Mode was noticed that "avgidseh.sys" was the last driver on the list. Then some time without any visible action. Then screen got blank and Windows graphic interface was started successfully with fully working operating system.
We need as much information as possible from these computers to understand and analyse, what is happening on them. Please provide us with mentioned well documented cases...
Thank you
This is a well documented error that has affected thousands of computer users. The fact that you call my attack on AVG unfounded is simply ridiculous. Try doing a Google search if you don't know that such a bug exists.
Now, maybe you are right about the SMART system failure. Maybe what caused that was the two failed Windows re-installs that I tried after AVGs recovery utility failed to do anything. Maybe what caused the SMART system failure was that I tried formatting the hard drive through the BIOS command line and then through Knoppix and that didn't work either. Maybe what caused the SMART system failure was that I then used Knoppix to delete the partition, create a new partition and then reinstall Windows on that. This time it worked and I was able to install Windows, which lasted for a few hours before the hard drive died. Any of those things could have caused the hard drive to die.
But the fact of the matter is that AVGIDSEH.sys stopped my computer from booting, even in safe mode and AVG's supposed fix did not do anything to alleviate this problem.
Thus, even if AVG did not cause my hard drive to die, it created an irreparable problem with my system that, under the best possible circumstances, still would have required me to format the hard drive and re-install Windows (I probably could have done that if I had wiped the hard drive clean from the beginning and not worried about my data). Having to format the hard drive is still absolutely unacceptable from a company like AVG and I still assert that AVG should be removed until they can get their act together.

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