frequent BSOD appleaudio.sys new Macbook pro

I think I found another issue that can cause blue screens, but luckily I managed to circumvent this one as well ( I haven't checked if there is a discussion about issue number 2 here in the forum) . Either way, I haven't had a blue screen for several weeks now. This is what works for me:

1. Keep the "Apple Audio Device" deactivated, which unfortunately means no sound and is not really a long term solution.
2. Check the version of your "Broadcom 802.11ac network adapter". For me the version 100.10.330.6 works fine without blue screens. Some time in March or beginning of April there came an update via Win 10 though, that brought the version to 100.10.459.0. After this update I started having blue screens again (after I had just gotten rid of them for a while) though a different typ of blue screen. If you have version 100.10.459.0 I suggest you test rolling back on the previous version by doing the following as an admin: device manager>network adapter>Broadcom 802.11ac network adapter>properties>driver tab>roll back driver (third button from the bottom).

I hope this helps. Let me know if this leasds to any improvements.

You are right, now paying more attention to this, I also had at least 2 or 3 unexpected shut downs after waking the screen from sleep. The touchbar lights up, the screen stays black and after a bit of waiting the system automatically reboots.

I'm now in touch with apple support, let's see if they can help.

Many thanks for your feedback Loner T.!

While waiting for the Apple support to get back to me I have now started to do my own testing. I have started by deactivating the "Apple Audio Device" in the device manager to be able to isolate the issue. In a bit more than 24 hours, so far no more BSOD's - let's hope it stays like this.

If this holds true, the issue could truly be with the Apple Audio driver, just like Windows 10 suggests.

So far not a single BSOD after 6 days with the the "Apple Audio Device" deactivated. Interestingly no more occurrences of the Win 10 screen staying black and only the touch bar lighting up after wake up either. So maybe even this is connected?

I guess just rolling back the network adapter will only remove some blue screens. Generally I would say most of mine were caused by the "Apple Audio Device". You should definitely try both in combination. Depending on how many BSODs you have, you should know after 1 or 2 days if it works or not.

If you can isolate the problem the same way I could, and make it go away by disabling the "Apple Audio Device", it will be much easier to discuss this with Apple.

Did you recently do the Win 10 update? Which version number of win 10 are you running? Can you please check the version number of the Broadcom 802.11ac network adapter driver ? What are the specs of you computer, especially the the graphics card?

I suspect it might be above 100.10.330.6. If it is above and you have a system similar to MacBook Pro 2018 i9 32GB 2TB SSD Radeon Pro Vega 20 than in my experience it might be the wireless driver. In this case it can probably be fixed by either just a driver rollback of the Broadcom 802.11ac network adapter driver to version 100.10.330.6. or a windows version rollback (depending on the windows version).

Yes, if you updated windows, your wireless driver was automatically updated to the latest version. This is why I asked about the windows version and updating. I guess the your problem is solved, even if it was not the appleaudio.sys in this case.

Note: Simple rollback of the wireless driver is not possible. Either you manually install the original botcamp driver or you restore your previous windows version. I ran into some other unrelated issues as well, so I went back to Windows version 1809.

frmanager wrote: These are two different issues! The latest Broadcom driver gives a BSOD,

but the Apple audio dritter as well. The Broadcom Crash can be easily

fixed by rolling back to initial BootCamp driver set.

I'm aware that these are 2 different issues, but didn't mind helping someone to solve an issue.

I agree with the Apple audio driver situation, I haven't heard from them in month either. The support seems to be extremely poor. Are you running the latest windows build? It would be interesting to see if the new windows version improved anything with the appleaudio.sys crashes, although the chances are extremely slim.

I'm also running Win 10 Pro version 1809.

NIMRODofArnor wrote:

Yes I did do the Windows 10 update though the issues were occurring prior to that.

NIMRODofArnor, if you are on the new 1903 Windows version and have no need to go back to 1809, it would be cool if you could try to manually install the original Bootcamp Broadcom 802.11ac network adapter driver version 100.10.330.6. again (to fix the blue screen 0x00000082d) and then activate the apple audio device for a bit to see if the new 1903 windows version maybe makes a difference. I'm aware that the chances are very slim, but it might be worth testing.

If you do try it, please let us know if the appleaudio.sys BSODs continue on Windows 1903.