Blue screen of death

Hey,

My friend just got his hp notebook and after one week it got the "blue screen of death". I just ordered an hp notebook and I just wanted to know how common it is. Did anyone here get the blue screen of death on his computer? And do you know what it is caused by.

Thanks

Edited:also if you did experience the blue screen of death, can you please tell us whats ur computer model.

 

I have never experienced the Blue Screen of Death on any computer I've used, at home, school, or work. We used to have a very old computer in my family (1994 Gateway computer) and we used it until about 2001. It was like Pentium 1 or previous generation and it ran Windows 3.1, then Windows 95. Obviously I was really young so I didnt do much on it besides play games, but my dad used it reasonably heavily and he encountered it a few times. But thats way back ten years ago or more. The technology today is much more advanced and you should not get the BSOD.

 

I haven't see the BSOD since ME. I had a BSOD a few times on Vista mainly due to heavy multitasking on 1GB ram or driver problems. I never had a BSOD on my 2GB notebook (expect for a driver problem).

I never had a BSOD on XP once. Crashes yes, but not the Blue Screen.

 

Lol you didn't push XP to the limit then. I got three BSOD during my time with XP (Seven years with old comp). One was a driver conflict. Haven't got a BSOD in Vista yet (Three months with new comp).

 

What type of usage are you doing on a computer for it to get the BSOD or even crash? I have only had a computer crash a few times at most, and that was our old computer with like Pentium 2, barely 512MB memory, Windows 2000, and less than a 20GB HDD.

On my current desktop (home built in Aug 2005, runs Windows XP and is higher up in specifications) I've never seen the BSOD, and its never even crashed. Closest is a few times when it froze for like 2-3 seconds.

 

From my experience BSOD are often caused by 1 of 3 things
1)Hardware problems (unlikely but it can happen)
2)Buggy drivers
3)Badly written software

I am BSOD veteran; I used to see it quite often when I was using XP, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day . I used to do a lot of driver updates and sometimes things wouldn't take (buggy drivers maybe) and what do you know BSOD. Also sometimes using beta software can cause it as well.

In vista I have only seen 2 so far for the few months I have had it.

 

The only time i had BSOD was when i had Millenium (the old one, not the new:tongue: )

 

I have only had one and that was on the desktop right when I first got it. I tried to play Roller Coaster Tycoon and bam it hit me with the BSOD.

 

I've had plenty of BSoD's in the past few years, but the majority have been whilst OC'ing so I guess that's not unexpected. I've also had a few rather less expected "Memory Parity Failures". But I haven't had too many really scary BSoD's from basic use of a machine.

 

Hi,

I also saw several BSODs in my computing "career".

On my old PC, it was due to defective ram at the end, which caused about 1-2 BSODs per day.

Now, on my new notebook, I also got quite a few BSODs on XP. But I have to say I use it really much, install/remove programs pretty often, do quite some gaming, experimenting with different drivers etc., so I'd say it's more likely for me to get BSODs than for anyone only using the computer 2hours a day with light office tasks or internet browsing.

But a funny thing is, I mosty get BSODs when I'm doing something not very demanding for the hardware or risky.

But I checked my hardware thoroughly, so these are probably just software issues. Seems to me, the IE7 and WMP are resposible for a number of problems. Probably because they are so close to system kernel.

 

i had multipel bsod's due to the turbo memory and APS (active protection system 'aka hard drive airbag'); uninstalled both and no problems since

 

Only happened on one instance with this laptop. It was due to a software incompatibility. After booting to safe mode and uninstalling the offender, I've never had the BSOD again (knock on wood.)

 

I've had many. =(

Driver issues of course.

 

what was the offender in your case?

 

i have a sager np2090, and i was got the blue screen after:

1) RAM stick came loose
2) first time i used my wi-fi but after I updated the drivers ive never had a problem since

 

Lots of times on my old desktop running Millennium Edition, never with XP.

 

Norton Go Back. I had had that program since 2000 I think and it isn't even being sold anymore. Now I just rely on System Restore and the biannual backup.

 

oh...all norton products suck really bad

 

I got my first BSOD under Vista the other day while using RMClock to undervolt my notebook. But then again you're pretty much asking for it when using such utilities

 

I have had many recently w/ Vista. I'm not great w/ computers, but been using computers heavily for the last 8 years. My first computer w/ Windows 98, my 2nd w/ XP, but never any BSOD. Didn't know what BSOD was until recently. I purchased my laptop 8/07. Around Dec, experienced them constantly. Didn't know what to do, but someone suggested doing a System Restore, which did the trick. I restored it to the original factory specs, but it was a pain in the ass to re-install programs. It was working fine until yesterday, and I kept experiencing them again. I'm not sure if it was a Windows update, or some other drivers that I installed. I had to do a System Restore, but only went back a few days. I had to do about 5 restores. I had several BSOD today, but after the latest restore, nothing for the last 3 hours.

My computer is HP Pavilion 9500t w/ intel duo core 1.67 ghz, vista home prem, 2 g ram, 160 gb ram.

Anyone try those programs such as RegCure that supposedly repair BSOD issues?

 

I have had numerous BSODs in XP but a handful on Vista .

I really didn't mind the few Vista ones I got since some of them were in the pre release versions . However the two BSODs I got recently on Vista was on my laptops . I have an old Compaq V2000 series laptop on which I was running Vista Business and all of a sudden it started to show a couple of BSODs a week ... I couldn't figure it out at all ... anyway that lappy went bust a short time later...

The latest BSOD prob has been on my 4 days old XPS M1530 ! I get the 0x0000C1F5 or something like that error code ... and I had to reinstall the whole thing . man .... format the hdd after 4 days on the new computer !