Vista Blue Screen of Death

[Sververda]

Since I started out with Vista Ultimate on my new PC i get every now and than
the famous BSOD. My PC is running 24x7 so most of the times it happens when
I'm not sitting behind the pc.
in the beginning (2 months ago) it happend about once a day, after a few
later updates is only happend about once every 4 or 5 days.

The only thing noticable I see is that after the PC rebooted from the BSOD
the wireless network is not working (Siemens Gigaset USB Adapter 108) that is
easily resolved by unplugging the USB connecter and plug it in again.

Yesterday I installed the Windows Updates that where published on April 8th,
with the result that the BSOD now occured every 2 hours (not exactly but more
or less) and after the third time I decided the uninstall all the security
updates from that batch that i could uninstall. There were a few other
updates but Office related that I left installed and on security update that
I was unable to uninstall (the prereq update for SP1: KB938371). After
rebooting the pc it has so far worked perfectly again for approx 20 hours.

I have no clue of what migth be causing the problem, can anybody here help
me trying to find what it could be?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Ok, so it's been happening since the beginning, so uninstalling updates is
not going to resolve the problem. You give no details about the stop errors,
so I can only give you vague answers. As a bit of information, the vast
majority of blue screens are caused by driver issues, so that is where you
would want to start. Do not rely on Windows Update for this, go to the
manufacturer of the various pieces of hardware used in the build and obtain
updated drivers directly from them.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Sververda]

Hi,

Off course I realise that removing the updates does not solve the problem,
but at least it prevented the system from getting the BSOD every 2 hours.
I didn't supply information about the stop errors since I can't find it in
the event log (other than the unexpected shutdown with no information at
all), so if you have an idea as to where I can retrieve that information
please tell me and I'll share it here.

I will have a look at the drivers, currently i have 3 devices with unsigned
drivers coming from the manufacturer directly. All three had drivers on their
site that one might call outdated (more than 6 months old) for Vista, so it
might be questionable as how good (or not) the support for Vista is. Also
have another device with the drivers from the manufacturer but I doubt that
that one is causing the BSOD problems (the Nvidia Geforce drivers).

 

[nnurse52]

Hi,
I've been getting BSOD off and on for the past year that I've been using the
Sierra 875 aircard through AT&t. No one has been able to help me from
preventing it from happening, I don't get any error code either. I restart
in safe mode, check what I can and never can find any problems and then just
restart and go on. I was using the 3G watcher after the AT&T communications
manager didn't work well, recently I went back to the Communications Manager
and have had less BSODs than ever. I'm running Vista Home premium with
Windows office 2007 installed. This may not help, but maybe someone can
comment on the mystery of the BSOD and if it's related to wireless internet.
Good luck, I know how frustrating it can be.

 

[Awais]

Hi sir,can anyone help me get rid of this blue screen issue ? Is there any possible way to remove it ?


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