cdruce said:
does having two copies of drivers for the cpu cause problems they look
identical can either one be removed, also have two identical copies for
the
keyboard.
i installed my os hdd on a new machine and now need to work out the bsod
bugs four crashes in three days, nothing is the same "kernal stack in page
error" "win32k.sys' Is there any place to help decipher the problem
reports?
When you say "i installed my os hdd on a new machine and now need to work
out the bsod", does that mean you took a hard disk, with an existing
installation of Vista, and moved it to a new machine? If so, this is an
*extremely* unreliable way of installing Vista. Yes, it seems easier than
doing a full clean install ... but it is also much less reliable. Even when
devices have "identical" standard interfaces (such as SATA drives, or Video
cards) they usually have different PnP IDs - so the existing driver which
was configured on the old machine may not be appropriate for the new
machine. Hence blue screens, weird errors etc.
The most reliable way to get the correct set of device drivers is to do a
clean install of Vista.
Analyzing STOP error dumps and error messages is quite straightforward, if
you have a good knowledge of assembly language. Just install the Windows
debugging tools from:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevTools/Debugging/default.mspx
But if you are a end-user, your best bet is to upload the dump to Microsoft,
and let them do the analysis for you. Online Crash Analysis ("OCA") is free
and immediate:
https://oca.microsoft.com/en/Welcome.aspx
Hope it helps,
Andrew