vista is crashing all the time

[Maurice]

Hi,

I installed Vista Business and I it occasionally crashes with a blue screen

 

[Maurice]

Sorry, I pressed the wrong button. Here again:

I installed Vista Business and I it occasionally crashes with a
blue screen. I can't reproduce it (but it happens very often) and
I can't read the blue screen as the system immediately reboots
(can that be turned off?).

Any hints how I could figure out what the problem is?

Thank you.

 

[MICHAEL]

Hi,

I installed Vista Business and I it occasionally crashes with a blue screen

Is it crashing "all the time" or "occasionally"?

You need to provide more details about your computer specs.

Upgrade or clean install?

-Michael

 

[Maurice]

Is it crashing "all the time" or "occasionally"?

Sorry if that was confusing, english is not my native language. I
meant that every time I use it, it crashes. Not on any specific
action, just randomly. Sometimes after a few minutes, sometimes
after an half hour.

You need to provide more details about your computer specs.

AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+ (2,4 GHz)
MSI K8T-Neo Mainboard
1 GB RAM
MSI Nvidia Geforce 5900XT

But Vista is 32 bit.

Upgrade or clean install?

Clean.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

You can disable automatic restart by following the instructions on my
website:

http://vistasupport.mvps.org/disable_automatic_restart_to_read_blue_screen_messages.htm


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[MICHAEL]

Sorry, I pressed the wrong button. Here again:

I installed Vista Business and I it occasionally crashes with a
blue screen. I can't reproduce it (but it happens very often) and
I can't read the blue screen as the system immediately reboots
(can that be turned off?).

Any hints how I could figure out what the problem is?

Thank you.

start menu>control panel>system>advanced system settings>
startup and recovery>settings>system failure
Uncheck "Automatically restart"

This will let you read what the BSOD has to say.

P.S.

You can also get to "advanced system settings"
by right clicking on "Computer" and selecting "Properties".
Or, typing "System" into Start Menu's search bar, and then
selecting the one that says "System" only.

In your reply, you may want to give additional information
about your computer and setup.


-Michael

 

[Guest]

Right-click on Computer, select Properties. In the left-hand pane of the
resulting properties dialog click on the Advanced Settings link. The System
Properties dialog will come up with the Advanced tab active. Click on the
Setting button in the Startup and Recovery section of that tab. UNcheck the
Automatically Restart setting. OK your way out of the dialogs.

Now when you get a blue screen the system will not reboot automatically.
You'll be able to record the blue screen error. Be sure you copy down the
STOP error information and the names of any drivers that might be listed. Let
us know.

This may not be a big help, because blue screen errors can be pretty tough
to diagnose, but at least you'll know what the error is.

 

[mikeyhsd]

yep, you can turn off the reboot on error.
System Properties, Advanced Tab, under Startup & Recover.
System Propeties can bve reached easily using Windows Key + Pause/Break keys.




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Sorry, I pressed the wrong button. Here again:

I installed Vista Business and I it occasionally crashes with a
blue screen. I can't reproduce it (but it happens very often) and
I can't read the blue screen as the system immediately reboots
(can that be turned off?).

Any hints how I could figure out what the problem is?

Thank you.

 

[MICHAEL]

Sorry if that was confusing, english is not my native language. I
meant that every time I use it, it crashes. Not on any specific
action, just randomly. Sometimes after a few minutes, sometimes
after an half hour.

It's okay, Maurice. We'll see what we can do for you.
I left another reply for you. Read that one and post back.

AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+ (2,4 GHz)
MSI K8T-Neo Mainboard
1 GB RAM
MSI Nvidia Geforce 5900XT

But Vista is 32 bit.


Clean.

Good info. Let us know what the blue screen says.
Do you know about the Event Viewer?

Type "event viewer" into Start Menu's search bar.
Select the result.

Look under Windows Logs> Application,
see if there are any alarming Error messages there.

-Michael

 

[Guest]

Maurice,

Commonly what you describe is a driver related conflict issue.

Are you running 32-bit or 64-bit Vista?

If you have added things as third party applications, will you share exactly
what was added?

Have you verified that add-ons were user authorized for installing, as
Enable or Disable?

 

[Maurice]

Thanks to all the replies so far.

Let us know what the blue screen says.

here it is from a few minutes ago (actually I doubt that this is
very helpfull):

win32k.sys
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

*** STOP: 0x00000050 (0x8E2A8640, 0x00000000,
0x8CCD142A, 0x0000000)

win32k.sys - Address: 8CCD142A base at 8CC00000

But I don't think the error is always the same. If I remember
correctly the last blue screen had the STOP-number 0x8E.

Do you know about the Event Viewer?

Look under Windows Logs> Application,
see if there are any alarming Error messages there.

There are _a lot_ of errors and warnings. Don't know which of
them are important.

Beside the blue screens I also get a lot of application crashes
(for example the event viewer didn't stay for 5 minutes).

I didn't install any third party software or drivers. Only the
updates Vista did automatically after installation.

 

[LaRoux]

Maybe a stuck bit in memory? You might try running the memory diags on
startup one time through just to rule this out.

 

[MICHAEL]

Thanks to all the replies so far.


here it is from a few minutes ago (actually I doubt that this is
very helpfull):

win32k.sys
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

*** STOP: 0x00000050 (0x8E2A8640, 0x00000000,
0x8CCD142A, 0x0000000)

win32k.sys - Address: 8CCD142A base at 8CC00000

But I don't think the error is always the same. If I remember
correctly the last blue screen had the STOP-number 0x8E.

I'm taking a quick guess- it's either bad RAM or something to
do with your video card.

 

[MICHAEL]

I was reading a few things I found through google.

Most of what I read indicates some type of memory problem
or your video card. There's actually several different things
that error could mean.

Surprisingly, some users also reported that running a chkdsk
fixed their problem that had the same error as yours.

Be sure to check "Automatically fix errors" and
"Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors"


-Michael

 

[Maurice]

Maybe a stuck bit in memory? You might try running the memory
diags on startup one time through just to rule this out.

Memory is fine. No errors found with Vistas memory test and
neither with memtest86. Also XP and Linux run pretty well.

 

[Scott]

Maurice spake thusly on 2/1/2007 10:39 AM:

Hi,

I installed Vista Business and I it occasionally crashes with a blue screen

OK, so which is it, all the time or occasionally? ;-)

 

[Guest]

the OS it self takles almost all of the 1 G memory. i suggest for you to have
2 G. running chkdsk would fix it, ***for the meantime.

 

[Guest]

why do i type so fast that i dont care about the spelling.
sorry.

 

[Guest]

Inrease you're page file to near the maximum allowed - this will reduce the
BSOD's, always have at last duoble the memory Microsoft recommends, also try
using a memory key (usb) and set it to be used as memory.

 

[Maurice]

Surprisingly, some users also reported that running a chkdsk
fixed their problem that had the same error as yours.

Now after I ran chkdsk I could finally finish a whole game of
Chess Titans and a few sessions of solitair! So that could have
been actually the problem.

There were still two application crashes (solitaire and internet
explorer) but who knows where those came from. At least there
were no blue screens anymore.

Thanks to all.