Windows 7 Blue Screen of Death

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JamesN

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#61481 17-May-2010 19:52

Hi All

Just upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate N couple weeks ago but in the last few days been getting the BSOD
Anyone know a good app to trace what is causing the BSOD or give me a better report than the Event Viewer?

TIA

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#331031 17-May-2010 19:55

I've only known one person who's gotten BSOD on windows 7. lol. Have you tried googling your error message?

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#331184 18-May-2010 08:49

James, first thing is to note the BSOD number and find what it is related to. Once you know if it's memory, disk, or drivers then you know to focus in one area.

JamesN

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#331468 18-May-2010 17:06

Yeah trying to get the BSOD number but the memory dump is quick then reboots
Got a suspician that it might be my graphics driver causing it as that is the only driver I've changed in the last week.
I also installed a new vent fan as the old one was moaning like a banshee about the same time
Grpahics card is a NVIDIA 8600GT

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#331470 18-May-2010 17:12

To get the BSoD to stay:
Click start
Rick click computer
Click properties
Click advanced system settings (on the left panel)
Under the startup and recovery box, click settings
In the system failure box, untick automatically restart

When you start up after a BSoD in the check for solutions box, click more info and you can also get error codes from there. Googling error codes usually helps much more than windows' check for Solution thing

JamesN

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#331487 18-May-2010 17:28

Sweet
Will give that ago

JamesN

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#331601 18-May-2010 21:22

Ok getting error 0x0000007A
googling it and microsft operators say to do a chkdsk
It's jut running at the moment and looking clean so far

Hopefully I don't have to replace the hard drive

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#331620 18-May-2010 21:51

I could either be the drive, or the controller...

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#331657 18-May-2010 22:50

Disk scan came back clean
Graphics card drivers were rolled back and no change

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#331677 18-May-2010 23:31

Reseat the cables, check the PSU...