Wad Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 (edited) x Edited September 9, 2008 by Wad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysee Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Do you run anti-spyware/anti virus regularly? Have you updated a driver recently? Any new software installed? When does it happen? Is when you perform a certain task? Have you checked the event viewer to see if that provides some clues..? Some more specifics would aid the diagnosis... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipdesigner Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 *oooo...same thing happend to my PC, one week ago, it was a nick of time actually, i have to fin one 'big' project but luckily i did after the 'operation' . *this is what i did, i brought the PC in a shop and check for the problems, first i suggest to make a reformat of the drive C (all my data files are stored in drive D). it was ok then, but eventually after restarting same msg came out. , thats the time they dismantled every pieces of the CPU, hardrives, RAM(s), processor..and so on..they found out that the RAM slot are unstabled..it was one diagnosed, the solution is to change the Motherboard:( (i dnt have much info regarding hardwares but as i have said i have to bring back my PC as soon as possible)i took the nod to change it. so that was it, but until now, im not so sure if that was the 'CORRECT' solution to the 'Blue Screen Death'..if it is, my PC life's go on:D *as one help tips not to encounter it again, i installed an Anti Virus...before it doesnt have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caffeinevoices Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 I've been having this problem on my 2 week old AMD64x2 running windows media center... i haven't narrowed down the cause, but it seems happen when writing information to the hard disk (i.e. downloading) with certain programs. I'm not positive if there is a scratch disk error or not... like i said i'm still narrowing it down, because only one program is causing this so far. Try to see if you can narrow it down, like what programs you are running, etc., BSOD's can be caused by many things... Also are you running Win Media Center... i'm skeptical of this new OS, but i'm not out to label it as the cause yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Wow, once a week, I went for like 3 years without getting a BSOD, but then I was getting them very frequently, it was the motherboard, it was time for a major upgrade anyway, so I went 64bit all the way... If there is any way you can reformat your windows, I would do that first, if it continues to happen, then it a hardware issue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilio_KID Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Try to see if this is your problem: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318988 It could also be a RAM problem or even the CPU. Many resources on the net either refer that Windows 2000 problem or anything related to a software installation (some files that cause it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Nelson Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 I just got a new Boxx and immediately started getting bsod's. They had me replace all 3gb's of ram and that solved the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysee Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 The Event Viewer is found in Control Panel\Administrative Tools. Its a very useful tool once you get past all the "geek speak"! It may provide some answers - or raise more questions! Generally the BSOD will raise its head when there are memory addressing/allocation errors - if its happening randomly, it could be a service that is running in the background - press Ctrl-Alt-Del and click on the processes tab to see if anything spurious is there (it'll only list exe files...) hope this is a help... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexthg Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 a random BSOD, of which you can't really point what the trigger is, is usually caused by bad memory. It once happened to me, and I have to replace my RAM. for a quick diagnose, check the amount of memory during BIOS startup, and see if it's showing the correct number. Also if you don't mind, open the computer case and make sure all the RAM, cables, etc are installed firmly. Harry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfienoakes Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Every BSOD, has an error code with it. Yours looks like a STOP error followed by a hex address. If you take note of that error, the number immediately after the STOP message, then type into google (or whatever browser you use) it will throw up a load of web sites. You should be able to pick out what is causing it from these sites. Quite often, they are from rogue drivers that have been installed, and the system comes up against a conflict, so think back to anything that was installed. But BSOD right from the word go is strange... google it, and see what it comes up with.. Its not always RAM though.. so don't panic... Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHAB Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 I think you need to reinstall your operating system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IC Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Now this is spooky! I just got my first ever BSOD while wiewing this post! What have you done to me? Anyway, I did what I always do when faced with a technical problem...shut down, wait 10 seconds and switch on again. Fixes everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 That is really spooky !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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