Very wierd crash...

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I got a blue screen of death today! On my new frickin machine!

There is something weird though. I was looking around myspace and for some reason it did this every time I clicked on this one person's profile. Doesn't that sound strange? This is the message I got (sorry for the flash). Any ideas?

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That "SSIDRV.SYS" files is certainly not a Microsoft driver there. The program associated with it most likely saw a bad install or the driver somehow crosslinked itself with a main system file somehow. If you have a Windows installation disk onhand you can also run the system file checker once you are in Windows again. You simply type "sfc /scannow" at the Run prompt off of the Start menu and either press enter or click the ok button to see that run. It can often repair or replace any found goofed up or missing. I have to run that after using one free cd burning program after running that 3 or 4 times to start seeing it burn iso images to cd-rs.
 
PC eye said:
That "SSIDRV.SYS" files is certainly not a Microsoft driver there. The program associated with it most likely saw a bad install or the driver somehow crosslinked itself with a main system file somehow. If you have a Windows installation disk onhand you can also run the system file checker once you are in Windows again. You simply type "sfc /scannow" at the Run prompt off of the Start menu and either press enter or click the ok button to see that run. It can often repair or replace any found goofed up or missing. I have to run that after using one free cd burning program after running that 3 or 4 times to start seeing it burn iso images to cd-rs.
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I tried sfc /scannow in the run prompt and it kinda flashed then closed and did not thing. Is that what it is suppose to do?
 
The system file checker usually runs for minutes once started since it first verifies all primary system files. After the initial verification process it will start copying files out of the I386 folder on the XP installation disk if anything needs repair or replacement. That has been in Windows since 98. Something is definitely wrong to see it close up fast when starting it.

The next thing to try there is using the msconfig utility to uncheck a number of items in the startup group. That will see the system startup without a number of other things loading along with Windows. The next step is to look over anything installed lately before this problem came up. By reducing the startups to a minimum you can often isolate the problem when enabling one at a time until the problem reappears.

A quick option of course is using the system restore process to back before the program was installed. Have you installed programs like Webroot's Spysweeper lately? The system file checker can also be started in safe mode if needed or at the safe mode/command prompt only option seen in the WIndows F8 boot menu. The instructions for starting the system restore process manually from that prompt instead of in Windows is seen at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304449/
 
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