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
    2020-12-18T17:45:20+00:00

    I finally found that the Corsair utility was on StartUp, so once I removed it from there, I followed JasonR's steps pretty much and I managed to get my Dell back without reset!

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-18T16:42:50+00:00

    Thanks, that's what had happened yes.

    For anyone else, you can figure out which drive your installation is on with diskpart:

    C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart

    Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.610

    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.

    On computer: 7390RM

    DISKPART> list volume

    ...

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-12-18T16:36:02+00:00

    Thanks man, this saved my ****. Oddly pnputil -e *cors* wouldn't work, so I had to do pnputil -e | more and manually scan the list. Other than that I didn't have anything in FileRepository or drivers, but did have a .inf file in Install. Thanks again.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-12-18T16:23:20+00:00

    I tried again using chef1998's steps using the dism command, but when rebooted got bsod again and the drivers were back

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-12-18T16:19:21+00:00

    This worked for me PERFECTLY!!!! It also taught me a thing or two which is appreciated.

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