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OK, I have 3 laptops. 2 Dell, 1 Sony. One is running Vista and
two are running XP SP2.
After the most recent Microsoft Updates on Tuesday they are
all displaying the Blue Screen of Death randomly. So far the
Dells 1x and the Sony 2x?
Has anyone else found this? No new hardware or anything and
the hardware is different in all of them. Also, it is a
different group of software running at the time.
I did my updates in 3 different groups because, as is my normal
mode of operation, I lurk first, saw some possible problems for
myself, they evaporated, so I updated. No problems whatsoever,
certainly no BSOD.
To help anyone help you, what do these BSOD notices tell you is
failing, i.e., what failed and what is the error code(s)? What
does Event Manager say was happening just prior to the crash?
And, what special HW or SW might you have on these 3 (?) PCs that
may make them especially vulnerable?
Please provide details, maybe somebody will brighten your day, I
know how frustrating and angry I get when I get BSOD problems and
cannot determine the cause.
One other question, did YOU set your own RP prior to updating? If
yes, or if you used the one that MS sets for you, did rolling
your system back completely work?
I'm speaking next broadly to people who find themselves
unexpectedly in a MAJOR crisis after a large - I think it was 9
or 10 - update install, not necessarily just you: use the rule of
binary divide to find out which one(s) caused it. What that means
uninstall them all and/or roll back to the RP, then take half of
them, the 1st 4 or 5 or the last 4 or 5, run the updates and see
if it crashes. If it does, you've narrowed the culprit down to 4
or 5. If not, install the other half. Whichever half has the
BSOD, uninstall all of that half, and install only 2 or may 3.
That will narrow it down almost surely to the main culprit in
only 3 tries. Trying to nail down the errant update with that
many in play is perhaps futile, but is certainly frustrating.
Hope you find a solution very soon.
