BSOD - at random...

[Patrick Keenan]

Over the past few weeks my computer has been crashing to BSOD almost at
random. It forces me to do a hard shut-down of the computer and manually
rebooting.

The only thing I've installed or updated lately is the latest Windows
update.

There is no image to revert ot in the recovery.

It MAY either be the update, or something to do with graphics ??? Not
sure.

Any ideas or good diagnostic tools (deep level - such as hardware,
drivers, or registry conflicts) that I can try to fix this?

The machine is only a year old.

Alienware 3.2GHz 4G RAM
WinXP Pro SP2+ (all the latest updates)

Greg

You need to start with specifiying the STOP error.

HTH
-pk

 

[siriusbliss]

Over the past few weeks my computer has been crashing to BSOD almost at
random. It forces me to do a hard shut-down of the computer and
manually rebooting.

The only thing I've installed or updated lately is the latest Windows
update.

There is no image to revert ot in the recovery.

It MAY either be the update, or something to do with graphics ??? Not sure.

Any ideas or good diagnostic tools (deep level - such as hardware,
drivers, or registry conflicts) that I can try to fix this?

The machine is only a year old.

Alienware 3.2GHz 4G RAM
WinXP Pro SP2+ (all the latest updates)

Greg

 

[Patrick Keenan]

0x0000001A (0x00041785, 0xc0E00000, 0x0009E78A, 0x00000000)

Other than this I get no stop error.

Greg

Have a look here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929338

HTH
-pk

 

[siriusbliss]

You need to start with specifiying the STOP error.

HTH
-pk

0x0000001A (0x00041785, 0xc0E00000, 0x0009E78A, 0x00000000)

Other than this I get no stop error.

Greg

 

[siriusbliss]

Have a look here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929338

HTH
-pk

excellent, thanks!

Greg

 

[siriusbliss]

Have a look here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929338

HTH
-pk

It appears that the validation tool is down, so I guess I'll have to try
later.

 

[siriusbliss]

Have a look here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929338

HTH
-pk

I loaded this update and, although the crashes are less frequent, they
are still happening.

I can't determine if it might be audio or video driver related???

Any other recommendations?

Thanks,

Greg