Probably a hardware failure - constant BSODs

Damn nice!

Yes, the complexity of this problem also confused me. The BSOD minidumps give various reasons which sometimes makes me think that the sky is falling down on my laptop^^

I uninstalled the update and Norton. Let's see what this gives. And you're right, I have hybrid graphics. It sucks like hell, especially because the system didn't recognize the ATI for a year since I reinstalled Windows last year until last month when I reinstalled it again. Or better: It was listed in the Device Manager, but games refused to recognize the ATI and ran on the Intel. It works fine again now. I also tried to update them once, but it resulted in the Device Manager saying that the updated one doesn't work properly. Only the delivery combination worked for me so far.

I can't find the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility on my laptop, so maybe it's not there.

I used SlimDrivers to update a SATA driver. I think the update came with a pack of different drivers.

As for the USB, the only programs I find under "Uninstall programs" are "Realtek USB 2.0 Card Reader" and "Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Host Controller Driver". Other Intel programs are the "Rapid Storage Technology", the "Management Engine Components", the "Display-Audio driver", and the "Turbo Boost 2.0". Maybe some more that I cannot see. Which shall I uninstall?
I also tried to induce a crash yesterday by finding the sensitive point. I was trying for five minutes, left and right, until it crashed when I squeezed the left side close to the USB sockets. And indeed, I got a USB bugcode. Can't tell if this was the case every time.

I didn't do the memtest so far. I've installed the USB version on the memory stick, but the computer booted normally. Gonna look into it later. The system then insisted on installing 30 Windows updates and I got a KMODE_EXCEPTION crash on the 30th. Brilliant.

But thanks for the awesome help, guys!

Oh and Hard Disk Sentinel says all's perfect.

Manual updates were a good idea, it installed the KB2670838 update again.

I've uninstalled Turbo Boost.

Let's see how often the 0x24 error occurs. Up until now, I rather had problems with 0x1e and 0xfe. I also had a BSOD without a minidump today.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/viseo94a6hvx9lp/20140928_140102.jpg?dl=0 say hello to me right there^^
It froze at 20% and I had to restart 5 times until it finally booted again. I've had a 0x7e SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION bugcode twice before.

In order to see the effects of the implemented changes I'll have to watch the computer work for the next week or so. It has good and bad days, so it's hard to tell now, especially since I've been at work on the evenings recently. I'll eventually buy a new HDD someday, but I want to be sure that the system won't destroy it. I'll check back to the forum every day, give my reports and install/uninstall/configure whatever needed.

I've been always kinda suspicious about this whole overclocking. I never used these features. Not surprised that it causes problems with peoples' systems. And I'll also be sure to extend the warranty to a minimum of 3 years next time I buy a machine. It seems that it's always in the 3rd year these issues come up...

How do I see directx is crashing?

Okay, the crashes have gotten much much rarer and there's only a few issues left. The only BSODs I've got for a week were two 0x3b "system service exceptions" and one "system thread exception not handled". No freezes so far.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rqfwz989sir8dgr/new%20dumps.7z?dl=0


The laptop is definitely not fixed completely and it probably never will be, but it will survive in an endurable state until I can get myself a new engine somewhere early next year. I want to thank you for that, Paul NZ! You're my hero ^^

The updates were already installed. This surprises me since I switched to manual updates.

Alright, this is getting on my nerves full time. Thanks to Paul NZ's superior advice, I've had 9 days of blissful peace, but then the BSODs slowly returned. I could solve them temporarily by repeating the steps Paul NZ recommended. I would get BSODs during gaming or watching videos - obvious cause is obvious -, but also during idles, sometimes, so it's not so obvious. And a Bluescreen never comes alone, so if I crashed once, I would crash 10 minutes after rebooting at best. Ingame or idle, doesn't matter anymore at this point. In fact, I would crash endlessly until I would proceed to go into Safe Mode to uninstall the Windows updates again or uninstall every program with the word USB in it, and I even managed to update my graphics cards without AMD stopping being recognized by games. But simply surfing the internet in Safe Mode, giving the system a break from all that crashing, would do the job too. After returning into normal mode, it would work properly, usually for the rest of the day. Annoying, but I'm a patient guy.

Unless it gets worse. It always gets worse. And it did. Tonight, the laptop stood idly on the table while I was doing some uni stuff. BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER kicks in. Had this one often in the last days, even removed all USB devices as an experiment, but it happens nevertheless. Also tried deactivating the AMD, remembering that the BSODs started after I reinstalled my Windows and the graphics card finally worked again, so maybe I'm better off without it. Nope.
Anyway: uni stuff, USB bugcode. Uff. Gotta restart. Crash on booting. Restart again. BSOD on loading screen. USB bugcode. Restart, hope to get into Safe Mode, but the choice is between starting as usual and starting the repair program now. Crash during repair program. Decide to start normally hoping to reach the welcome screen before it goes down again, then switching into Safe Mode. Plan worked, but only after 3 more BSODs on the starting windows screen, two of them I've never seen before: 0x24, advises me to uninstall antivirus or CHKDSK.

I'm sitting in Safe Mode now. Will upload minidumps and photos for general entertainment as soon as possible.

But meh, siriusly! If it's the HDD, I'm ready to replace it. If it's the AMD, I'll be glad to work with Intel, even if it means I can't play high end games. AoE II is still a fine game, after all. As long as I finally know where the crashes come from. Could it be a virus? Norton didn't report any of that as long as I had it.

Cheers
GeneralAlzheimer

EDIT:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/46einy5bh95v7sn/AAA6UoKCXEYUt5m0uNNJjKRSa?dl=0
Some of the minidumps are incomplete because those BSODs BSODd. Duh.

Yes, I suppose so. It really makes the most sense. I've been traveling with the laptop a lot and it even fell off my bed once. Not a deep fall, but still.

I'll struggle a bit more and look whether I can use my girlfriend's secondary HDD for the time being. Thanks galore, so far!

To give a final summary to those who experience the same problems: I followed Paul NZ's instructions, uninstalled everything USB 3.0 related, every default program that didn't seem necessary, and updated what I could with SlimDrivers, especially my graphics. I find it really amusing that I couldn't find the update to my switchable graphics double team, not even on HP's homepage, but SlimDrivers did.
I've been doing this for several weeks, after each uninstall and after each update the computer stopped crashing for a few days. Whenever it happened again, I did the next step. Then it stopped. It still crashes when I touch it at a certain spot, but the annoying arbitrary crashing is gone now.
I didn't change any hardware.

tl;dr: Get rid of expendable programs, update your hardware with SlimDrivers, and don't drop your computer. Works 9/10.