BSOD Loop - CorsairVBusDriver.sys failure

Anonymous
2020-10-06T21:04:57+00:00

After running optional system update for Corsair devices, my ASUS RoG G771 laptop is completely unusable.  It's stuck in a BSOD reboot loop and not one recovery method is working.  I wasn't provided a recovery disk with the laptop and apparently it's unable to boot from USB.  I can't even reset the OS because it prompts for an outlook.com password and says the one I provide is incorrect (I've confirmed I am entering the latest password for the account and it's working on other devices).  Safe mode doesn't work, either.

Others have posted this on the Corsair forum and the company doesn't answer.  My laptop is now a boat anchor and I'm desperate for a solution...

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-12-10T01:23:20+00:00

    Any news on this? I have the exact same problem as you did, have tried everything, but the damn driver keeps coming back.

    I came home today to my computer at the bios screen. Every reboot failed citing CorsairVbusDriver.sys.  Did a system restore to 3 days ago.  Got to desktop, everything seemed fine. BSOD 5 mins later, system crashed again citing CorsairVbusDriver.sys.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-09T17:29:10+00:00

    Youre going to want to use this article and follow the steps under "

    How to do a System Restore without reaching the desktop in Windows 10 (from Advanced Boot Options)"

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.digitalcitizen.life/how-start-system-restore-when-you-can-no-longer-log-windows/

    Its not an exact science but if you monkey around enough Windows will eventually let you do a restore to a point before the drivers and the windows update messed things up.

    Then you need to stop it from happening again, disable windows and driver updates, remove Corsair Utility, remove the drivers like I have in my post above.

    Then ideally backup a system image and slowly renable auto updates and update windows and hope it doesnt happen again.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-15T01:17:01+00:00

    The driver problem started after a Windows update, not from a utility.  I cannot boot into Safe mode.  I've tried pnputil and DISM from command line using recovery DVD, but no matter what method I use to remove the driver(s) and associated INF(s), CorsairVBusDriver.sys pops right back in and causes BSOD.  I just flat cannot see how to prevent it from being restored.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-10-15T01:12:12+00:00

    Followed the instructions for DISM.  Received no errors, but once again after reboot, the bad Corsair drivers were restored, assuming from the Recovery partition... which I am THIS close to deleting...

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-10-08T15:40:06+00:00

    Thanks, I'll check it out.  I'm not sure if I can even access other drives from the recovery tool, which presents C: as X:.  I may have to use a partition manager...

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