Blue Screen of Death Help

Ok so over the past few weeks I have been getting a BSOD a bunch. So instead of trying to fix it I just reinstalled XP Pro. I figured it would just be less of a hassle. So I did got all of the drivers installed and working well. Now I am getting the BSOD again. I was hoping someone could give me some help in solving my problem. The computer is a E1505. This is the error code from the BSOD.

0x000000D1 (0x000000166,0x00000002, 0x00000001,0xf7753003)

bcm4sbxp.sys- Address F7753003 base at F7751000, DateStamp 42f3boaf

Thanks,
Adam

 

http://www.file.net/process/bcm4sbxp.sys.html

Maybe reinstall the ethernet driver?

 

Reinstalled it. Lets see if it will help.

Thanks,
Adam

 

Maybe look hard at your video driver as well. Try the Omega Drivers if you are using a ATI chip.

 

Ok well I just got it again. So the ethernet driver was not the problem. I have also reinstalled the ATI drivers from Dell. As for the omega drivers, I thought they were for over clocking. Witch I have no need for. Or am I wrong.

Thanks,
Adam

 

No, they are drivers. They helped my old ATI9600 but you may have other problems as well.

You may want to re-image your drive to start with a clean slate then one step at a time to you get to what happened a few weeks ago?

 

I will give the omega drivers a shot. I am not sure what you mean by re-image my drive. As for what happened, for the past month or so the computer had been having a hard time coming out of hibernation. It would simply restart when I turned it back on. This was kind of bugging me as I use hibernation all the time. So then fast forward to last week. I am working on a project and having to run some very complex Matlab simulations. The computer was running for about 24 hours with one of the cores completely maxed out. I had run it so that it would be finished when I got out of bed in the morning and I wake up to a BSOD. And from then I would restart it and could work for maybe 10 min before I would get another one. So I just reinstalled Windows thinking it would be the most simple fix. Anyways that was kind of long. It all may be a moot point as it just crashed again and the Microsoft crash thing said it was a hardware problem. I am running the Dell diagnostic stuff rite now. I will give an update when I have one.

Thanks,
Adam

 

Well the diagnostics found no hardware problems. So I guess I will try the omega drivers and see if that helps at all.


Adam

 

Can it be a memory problem?

 

Run MemTest86 to find out.

 

Ok just got another one. So the omega drivers did not work. Rite now I am working on figuring out how to use the memtest thing.

Thanks,
Adam

 

i wonder if something got fried. maybe it can't handle 24 hrs straight of max cpu usage.

not to go straight to the worst possible explanation, but i wonder.

 

Ya I am kind of thinking that may be the case. I just can't find any thing wrong software wise. Its not the end of the world as I do a have a 3 year warranty. I will just have to go without the computer for a little while. What is the best way to nail down a hardware problem if the Dell diagnostics can't find anything? One weird thing I did notice is there is something wrong with speed fan. I use speedfan to monitor the temps in my computer and before the reinstall I had 6 different sensor outputs. Now I only have 3.

Thanks,
Adam

 

That doesn't sound right...check out SuperPI to test the CPU. If something is wrong with it you might get a lot of errors or a BSOD more quickly. No harm in trying.

 

Super Pi did not cause any problems. It also ran it in the same time it has in the past.

Thanks,
Adam

 

Call Dell for a replacement . If u tried to figure out by yourself to resolve the problem and it doesn't work, it's probably a defective parts in your computer causes the problem.

- When install dell drivers just install the most nescessary things. Forget about those notebook system softwares,touch pad drivers, dell diagnostic..... make it clean and simple.

- Intel driver
-audio driver
-video driver
-ethernet LAN
-Modem
-bluetooth if u have one
-memory card reader
that's it.

- I prefer Windows wireless than Intel because it connects faster than intelwireless
- You can disable INTEL Wireless services and let windows configure you wireless card, that saves 3 or 2 processes.
- I also disable ATI tray on start up
- read thread for dummy about OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE ON YOUR LAPTOP in this forum. Clean up random processes in your task manger can prevent BSOD. Eversince I reinstall my system I 've had 3 times BSOD, still waiting for the 4th one if it comes. It's now seems to be stable now.

- my computer now runs pretty clean with 29 processes includes: 3 yahoo widgets 2 firewall antivirus kaspersky, winlogon, cursor XP,windows blinds and other system processes.

 

Ya I think its a hardware problem. I just got another BSOD with a new code.

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

***STOP: 0x0000000A (0x00000000 0x0000001c 0x00000001 0x804FAD30)

according to the article below it is most likly a CPU overheating or RAM. I know it is not a CPU over heating as the computer had been off for like 3 hours and was completely cool. http://www.tweaksforgeeks.com/IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.html

There is a dell service center where I go to school so I will just take it there. Thanks for the help everyone. I will update after I talk to them.

Thanks,
Adam