Blue Screen Of Death On Vista

maxsinyuk

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Hi All. Ever since I upgraded my laptop to Vista Ultimate 32 Bit I have not been able to watch any kind of stream from the internet. It will play for a few min and then all of a sudden i get the bsod saying something about a page fault in a nonpaged area. At first it was just kind of annoying but since I really dont watch anything on the internet I didn't really care. But now I get the bsod for no apparent reason. I even got one when I was watching a movie that I had downloaded on my comp. I was wonderin if anyone ever had the same problem. I have an HP DV5220US. All my drivers are updated and Vista is also updated. I never had thing problem with XP by the wat. Any ideas would be appreciated.
 
Blue screens of death are caused by either

+Poorly constructed drivers
+failing hardware
+Viruses
+combination of all three

When you get it again, please tell us what the error code is.
 
It happened again as I was watchin Family Guy online. The bsod for some reason divides the screen. By this i mean instead of just one big blue screen it divides into 4 smaller screens. The code said something like (0X0000008L). This was the only part of the code that i could catch before the computer restarted. It also said that if this happens again to check drivers, hardware, BIOS, or restart the comp. Again any help would be appreciated.
 
Are you sure it was 8L instead of 8E? If it turns out to be 8E then it would be a driver problem. Try uninstalling your video driver and downloading the newest from your vendor's website and reinstall the driver.

How old is your laptop? It might also be a problem with your motherboard not having the latest bio's for Vista. Did you check to see if you had the latest bio's?
 
It might have been 8E the letters were really small and blurry. I'll try downloading the latest video drivers. However I have no idea how to download new BIOS drivers. I definetely have not updated it. Can you tell me how to fix it.
 
I have an HP DV5220us Entertainment Notebook. Intel Centrino Duo 1.6 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache, 533 MHz FSB, with 120 GB HD and 2 GB of RAM.
 
That's one of those rigs that uses the dynamic memory for the VGA. How much do you want to bet that you have a bad memory module? Typically those HPs use that cheap Hynix crap. Try swapping the modules out with a good set and see what happens.

Also, try running with just one module in it. You probably have a matched pair in yours. I've seen a couple of laptops where the board went wonky and putting a pair in did some strange things, whereas a single module worked perfect.
 
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