Instant Blue Screen of Death

[Pete]

My machine works great all day except once or so it will restart, and I get
in an Instant the Blue Screen of Death. There's no time to read the screen.
This was a VERY expensive "game" machine.
It seems to happen with the most recent version of Firefox -3.08
But I'm not sure.
Is this likely software, hardware, power variance, what?

 

[DaveD]

Are you overclocking?
Is the CPU overheating?

 

[pupick]

Causes: Over heating, power supply, failing hard disc.

 

[Ray Luca]

most probally it is a software issue ..
do u get any error msg on blue screen

What part of "There's no time to read the screen" did you find
difficult to understand?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

My machine works great all day except once or so it will restart, and I get
in an Instant the Blue Screen of Death. There's no time to read the screen.

If your computer is restarting spontaneously, you are presumably
blue-screening, and you are set to the default of rebooting whenever
that happens. It's a poor default setting and you should change it.
Right-click My Computer, and choose Properties. On the Advanced tab,
click Settings under Startup and Recovery. Under System failure,
uncheck the box "Automatically restart.

Now when the problem occurs again, instead of restarting, you will get
the blue screen with diagnostic information. Post back with those
details for more help.

This was a VERY expensive "game" machine.
It seems to happen with the most recent version of Firefox -3.08
But I'm not sure.
Is this likely software, hardware, power variance, what?

It's hard to be sure without more information, but most problems like
this are hardware ones, not software.

 

[Chad Harris]

My machine works great all day except once or so it will restart, and I
get in an Instant the Blue Screen of Death. There's no time to read the
screen.
This was a VERY expensive "game" machine.
It seems to happen with the most recent version of Firefox -3.08
But I'm not sure.
Is this likely software, hardware, power variance, what?

Hi there Pete--

If you want the BSODs to stop why haven't your taken instructions of how to
read the BSOD error, which will give a little bit of indication of the
probably multiple causes for it, and *could tell us it's software (the
highest probability here of transient BSODs), also if you've recently added
any hdw devices, and we'll show you how to get 'er fixed goshdarnit, you
betcha, "gimme the launch codes." Ah kin see Redmond from here.

BTW--how did you determine Vista is an "inferior OS?" It represents a lot
of good work. It does a remarkable number of things on a remarkable variety
of hdw world wide. It gets a bad rap mostly from individuals who have never
used it who heard it was a headache because some 3rd party driver makers
dragged their feet. Granted there are many fine tools in Linux. OS X works
extremely well. Why not use all 3?

I have heard a rumor that MSFT is making a newer better faster more CPU
efficient OS called Windows 7. You will be able to download and try the
CPP of its RC1 pretty soon. Give it a shot.

At this point have you fixed your OS? If not post the info on the BSOD and
we'll get it fixed.

CH

 

[Manny Weisbord]

Since it is a HP computer and i work for HP , i can say it is mostly a
software issues

You can say whatever you like, but that doesn't make it correct.

 

[Pete]

Are you overclocking?
Is the CPU overheating?

My machine works great all day except once or so it will restart, and I
get in an Instant the Blue Screen of Death. There's no time to read the
screen.
This was a VERY expensive "game" machine.
It seems to happen with the most recent version of Firefox -3.08
But I'm not sure.
Is this likely software, hardware, power variance, what?

Yes, the system came over clocked from DELL.

 

[Pete]

'Disable Automatic restart'
(http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsvista/ht/arestartvista.htm) to
view the BSOD code next time it crashes, then post back the code.

OK. When it happens next I'll post the message. Tks.

 

[Pete]

Since it is a HP computer and i work for HP , i can say it is mostly a
software issues


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It's a Dell overclocked from the factory.
Maybe I should back off the over clocking?
Can that be done from CMOS or what? I don't really want to get into the
machine's guts.

 

[DaveD]

Yes, you can change the overclocking parameters in the BIOS.
It's really not risky to change them to more conservative values.
It's changing them to more aggressive values that's potentially problematic.

If you just write down what you change, you can always set it back to the
defaults.

 

[Richard Urban]

The O/P says he owns a Dell computer. What do you know that he doesn't?

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

 

[Pete]

Hi there Pete--

If you want the BSODs to stop why haven't your taken instructions of how
to read the BSOD error, which will give a little bit of indication of the
probably multiple causes for it, and *could tell us it's software (the
highest probability here of transient BSODs), also if you've recently
added any hdw devices, and we'll show you how to get 'er fixed goshdarnit,
you betcha, "gimme the launch codes." Ah kin see Redmond from here.

BTW--how did you determine Vista is an "inferior OS?" It represents a lot
of good work. It does a remarkable number of things on a remarkable
variety of hdw world wide. It gets a bad rap mostly from individuals who
have never used it who heard it was a headache because some 3rd party
driver makers dragged their feet. Granted there are many fine tools in
Linux. OS X works extremely well. Why not use all 3?

I have heard a rumor that MSFT is making a newer better faster more CPU
efficient OS called Windows 7. You will be able to download and try the
CPP of its RC1 pretty soon. Give it a shot.

At this point have you fixed your OS? If not post the info on the BSOD
and we'll get it fixed.

CH

Just got home. I plan on leaving the machine on day and night until it gives
us the BSOD.
Tks.

 

[Pete]

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Hi there Pete--

If you want the BSODs to stop why haven't your taken instructions of how
to read the BSOD error, which will give a little bit of indication of the
probably multiple causes for it, and *could tell us it's software (the
highest probability here of transient BSODs), also if you've recently
added any hdw devices, and we'll show you how to get 'er fixed goshdarnit,
you betcha, "gimme the launch codes." Ah kin see Redmond from here.

BTW--how did you determine Vista is an "inferior OS?" It represents a lot
of good work. It does a remarkable number of things on a remarkable
variety of hdw world wide. It gets a bad rap mostly from individuals who
have never used it who heard it was a headache because some 3rd party
driver makers dragged their feet. Granted there are many fine tools in
Linux. OS X works extremely well. Why not use all 3?

I have heard a rumor that MSFT is making a newer better faster more CPU
efficient OS called Windows 7. You will be able to download and try the
CPP of its RC1 pretty soon. Give it a shot.

At this point have you fixed your OS? If not post the info on the BSOD
and we'll get it fixed.

CH

Just to tidy things up, the BSD said I had a conflicting driver/hardware. I
disconnected an external HD usb drive and all worked. The drive was failing
anyway.
Thanks to all for their ideas.

 

[James Matthews]

I have found the error messages within windows vista to be very
informative...