Blue Screen of Death

[OmnipotentWrath]

What is the easiest way to diagnose the issue causing the blue screen? It doesn't happen very often, and I am not always actually doing anything on the computer when it happens. Plus I just rebuilt my computer, so I have just installed tons of new drivers.

 

[jimkonow]

okay, the best thing i can tell you is that you have to reinstall windows XP, because it cant handle a huge hardware change without shitting the bed

 

[OmnipotentWrath]

Is that the case even if it rarely does it. It has been days since it last did it, and I've been using it pretty steadily every day.

 

[jimkonow]

it rarely does it? then its not winxp taking a dump on your new hardware cause "its not the same thing as ive always had!!!"

 

[OmnipotentWrath]

Yeah, it rarely does it. I was worried about it taking a dive when I did the rebuild but it has been pretty reliable, but every once in a while windows just quits, gives me the blue screen and restarts. Then it goes on like nothing happened.

 

[OmnipotentWrath]

The only thing I can think of is go through uninstall and reinstall drivers one by one.

 

[ADE]

okay, the best thing i can tell you is that you have to reinstall windows XP, because it cant handle a huge hardware change without shitting the bed

LOL! Any way, there can be a number of problems: overheating, disconnected hardware, bad data sectors, system crash, etc...

 

[jimkonow]

yeah, the overheating seems to be a big culprit here

 

[OmnipotentWrath]

I scanned my HD a few days ago with no problems. What is the threshold temp for cpu and mb?

 

[Lax]

RAM is the most likely cause along with overheating or a major hardware change. If you can get the ID of the BSoD (turn off automatic restart in the advanced tab of system properties menu) and post it up or search for it on google you might get somewhere.