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Blue Screen of Death in Vista
I am using a 4 year old Dell Inspiron 9100. It gets blue screens of deaths constantly. I have no idea why. Today, it has blue screened at least 3 times. I do not want to upgrade anything in it because I want a new laptop soon. I can't find any good free programs for looking for problems on Vista systems. Should I go back to XP (don't want to). Fans are always on, and loud. Please help.
Specs are:
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
512mb of ram (2x256mb)
2.8GHz Pentium 4
40gb Hard Drive
Windows Vista Home Premium (OEM copy)
Use I8kfan GUI to try and control temperatures and see load on ram. The blue screen has nothing written on it.
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Try this...
In the start bar, where there is a search option, type "Rel" and the Reliability and Performance Monitor should pop up. From there, you should be able to get more information about those system crashes.
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Since 6/3, Windows has failed 6 times.
Here is data for one day:
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I would say your specs barely meet the requirements for Vista. Yeah, you meet the minimum specs, but thats not going to get you much of anywhere with a new and somewhat unstable OS. Stick with XP. This is the precise reason I did not upgrade my old system (with similar specks) to Vista.
Would you rather run an OS that your computer is exceptionally capable of (XP) or put strain on every component just to be up-to-date (Vista)?
My verbiage may be inaccurate but the overall message is intact.
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512MB of ram is kinda cutting it with Vista. You need more like a gig or heck 2 to be really safe.
Mike.
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The root of the problem, besides having only is 512mb of ram, is 0x829e7120. Anybody know what that is?
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i recommend that u "stock" ur vista installation, meaning:
. keep it simple (rem any startprocesses/services that r not vista related; u can add them back later on)
. do not use any firewalls besides vista, do use a virus scanner (i use avast on mine)
. video working app can cause vista to bsod, make sure that they r "vista compliant/compatible" - there is a sticky in the forum that u can safely refer to.
. gpu driver uptodate? or r u still using vista stock on this?
. & yes, 1gigo ram would definitively do wonder for vista
cheers ...
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Windows is saying a device driver is causing the BSOD's. Is there an easy way to test drivers for the problem?
As I was updating Avast Free antivirus, the computer blue screened. So now I uninstalled it and am installing AVG free. Could Avast have been causing the trouble? I had it before and it never did anything.
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The BSOD that you got in the picture you posted:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/En-US/library/aa469194.aspx
Basically if you are overclocking, don't
Test your RAM
Update BIOS
Maybe try disabling dual core.
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I had a lot of issues with USB connected hardware, and I traced it back to Vista and its various issues. Does it BSOD if you have nothing connected to the laptop except for the AC adapter?