Windows 7 First Blue Screen Of Death

[floppybootstomp]

Within Win 7. Auto main-updates only turned on, UAC turned off.

I was playing Halo 2 (11th level of 13 - Uprising) when it crashed and rebooted.

I barely had a chance to read the screen details but I did retrieve this message when it rebooted:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 3b
BCP1: 00000000C0000005
BCP2: FFFFF8800F619261
BCP3: FFFFF88004AC1180
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_1_7600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\012310-14461-01.dmp
C:\Users\Tony Sullivan\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-25646-0.sysdata.xml

Read our privacy statement online:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409

If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:
C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt

I ran Vista around 22 months and never had to do a fresh install or ever had one BSOD so for all it's faults at least Vista seemed stable.

But Vista was 32 bit and this is 64 Bit, both Home Premium.

Anybody any ideas whether that message gives any clues?

 

[V_R]

Anymore info in the event viewer?

 

[floppybootstomp]

Anymore info in the event viewer?

That was the screen that came up when the machine rebooted.

Do you mean the path the above text gives? To Application Data etc? I can post that.

The BSOD lost me all the checkpoints in Halo 2 from the start of that major evel, it's just taken me over an hour to get back to where I was. I quit at the checkpoint just before where it crashed and I'll go back now and see if it happens again.

 

[Abarbarian]

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-bug-check-or-stop-error-codes

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms793251.aspx

This looks to have some information for you.

 

[V_R]

I mean in Control panel > Admin tools. Is there anything more in there?

 

[floppybootstomp]

I mean in Control panel > Admin tools. Is there anything more in there?

I haven't got a clue, lol, oi's not that clever Master Vanilla Sir

I took a brief look at a few things in Event Viewer but nothing struck me as relevant.

Sorry, don't know where to look, really.

 

[floppybootstomp]

On another note, started playing Halo 2 again, no probs, I think I'm getting near the end cos it's just got very very hard.

There was an auto update within 64 Bit Win 7 today I note and it was a security fix within IE8.

I'm wondering if that took place whilst I was playing Halo 2 it may have caused the BSOD?

 

[V_R]

Ah no worries, just a thought.

But if you do find anything under there it may help. chances are its a driver or something maybe. Or what you stated above maybe?

Tell you what you can do though.

My computer, right click > Properties. Go to advanced system settings. Advanced tab. Startup and recovery settings. Untick the Automatically restart checkbox. Hit Ok, Ok

At least if it does it again you get chance to read the bluescreen error.

 

[Ian]

There are mini dump analysis tools that you can run on "C:\Windows\Minidump\012310-14461-01.dmp", which will tell you what went pairshaped and why

There's a bit on how to do it here : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263

 

[captain zed]

Hi Flopp's....i know very little about pc's as you well know but my question is "why did they spit the line about their privacy statement at ya ??
Also, i never knew you were a Halo player....have you played halo 1 ??
Good luck with your bsod issue

 

[floppybootstomp]

Played Halo 1 yonks ago - good game

Why Microsoft do what they do (privacy statement) is beyond me but I'm sure it makes sense to a highly overpaid lawyer in the MS employ

No further issues today and I finished Halo 2.

I'm suspecting the IE8 update taking place during gameplay tbh.

 

[floppybootstomp]

It happened again just now playing Batman.

I hadn't made the setting V_R suggested (I will now) but managed to read from the BSOD: 'At attempt was made to write to read only memory' before the screen closed.

I'll also check out Ian's link.

 

[floppybootstomp]

Just happened again, I took a pic this time, appears to be a hardware or software conflict.

Well, that narrows it down a lot doesn't it Mr Microsoft?

I've also had IE8 crash on me a couple of times.

This never happened with Vista and I wonder whether Microsoft sacrificed stability for speed when they morphed Vista into 7.

 

[floppybootstomp]

BSOD happened again on Friday

On a positive note, I just acquired an HP Photosmart 7350 printer which I put onto my XP machine cos it fitted available physical space better than the HP Photosmart 7960 that was there.

I put the 7960 onto the Win 7 machine and as expected, Win 7 was asking for a driver. None at the HP website.

Went to 'Windows Update/Optional Updates' and there it was, listed 'HP 7960 Driver' Selected that one and it was automatically downloaded and installed and now my printer works fine in Win 7.

Blimey, Win 7 getting almost as good as Linux Mint

 

[floppybootstomp]

And yet another one boys and girls, this is really starting to pox me off

Specs:

All Win 7 updates applied.
Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard. latest BIOS
4Gb Corsair C5 DDR2 6400 memory
Nvidia GTX9800 512Mb video card
2 x Western Digital velicoraptor 150Gb Hard Drives in RAID 0
Samsung 500Gb SATA 2 HDD for storage
Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 Sound Card
Two optical drives on PATA port
A floppy drive
Latest Video and Sound card drivers

That's mostly the hardware side, software is usual suspects, Office, Photoshop, Nero, lots of Games, Antivir, Superantispyware and other stuff (haven't put Malwarebytes on this one yet).

Anybody any ideas?

 

[V_R]

^^ That one i know for sure is Nvidia Driver related. 100% (nvlddmkm.sys)

Its a different one to the others you've had though.

Out of interest, have you tried running memtest for a few runs?

 

[floppybootstomp]

Out of interest, have you tried running memtest for a few runs?

Nope, but I will tomorrow - thanks. Worth a shot I guess.

 

[muckshifter]

there was/is a nVidia optional driver update available yesterday ... 197.45 ... may work even

 

[floppybootstomp]

Ta Mucks. I've installed Nvidia drivers but have yet to try memtest.

As the BSOD happens so rarely it may be some time until I can assess whether the new drivers have solved the problem or not.

 

[kristain]

Follow these steps to fix a Blue Screen in Safe Mode

* Once booting start, select "Safe Mode" from the boot menu.

* Scan your hard drive by running your antivirus software. If the program locates an infection, move it to your vault or follow the on-screen instructions. After program completation, if a virus was removed, attempt to reboot your computer and see if this clears up the problem. If not, restart your computer in safe mode.

* Restore your computer to a previous point. Click on the "Start" button. Select "All Programs", "Accessories", "System Tools" and finally "System Restore". Choose a restore point on or before the last day your computer worked without error. Finally Reboot your computer to see if it loads correctly.