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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Baron Von Spongebob on 20 November 2007, 11:28:58
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Anyone had the blue screen on their computer in the last few days..
SWMBO and mine both suffered this today but after shouting at it and restarting all is ok,,
Just wondering if its a problem with the virus update or windows..Must be one of them as SWMBO does not frequent dodgy sites..I think.. :D And neither do i before anyone says different..
Just for the record im using XP and AVG anti virus..
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No.
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All normal here.
Whats the the info from the blue screens? both the same?
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Probably an issue with a piece of hardware or a troublesome device driver for it to die that badly.
How old is the hard drive?
Kevin
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Anyone had the blue screen on their computer in the last few days..
SWMBO and mine both suffered this today but after shouting at it and restarting all is ok,,
Just wondering if its a problem with the virus update or windows..Must be one of them as SWMBO does not frequent dodgy sites..I think.. :D And neither do i before anyone says different..
Just for the record im using XP and AVG anti virus..
Are you signed in to 'Messenger'?
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Anyone had the blue screen on their computer in the last few days..
SWMBO and mine both suffered this today but after shouting at it and restarting all is ok,,
Just wondering if its a problem with the virus update or windows..Must be one of them as SWMBO does not frequent dodgy sites..I think.. :D And neither do i before anyone says different..
Just for the record im using XP and AVG anti virus..
Are you signed in to 'Messenger'?
No..
Both machines did this so not a hardware problem..IE Hard disk..
Both mine and SWMBO laptop went to a blue screen nothing else no icon nothing..Not a sausage, Not that i have sausages on my computer very often.Spilled beer yes..
All working fine now but trying to establish what did it..
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Very strange one, no text on the blue screen?
What was the time difference between them both going?
is there ANY shared hardware, like a broadband router?
was going to suggest a power spike, but the laptop shouldnt have been affected like that
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Hmm. Do you have a piece of hardware that you've recently installed new drivers for on both machines? Failing that, just keep an eye on it and if it happens again make a note of the error message.
Kevin
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Hmm. Do you have a piece of hardware that you've recently installed new drivers for on both machines? Failing that, just keep an eye on it and if it happens again make a note of the error message.
Kevin
Only normal updates recently installed..SWMBO started her Laptop earlier this morning and blue screen, I come home and started my desk top, blue screen..Closed it down and all working fine. Told her to start laptop and all fine.
No harm done YET.. :D Its working thats the best thing.. ;D ;D ;D
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There was a fair bit of thundery activity around last night, as well as heavy rain. I'm thinking a nanosecond power supply interruption or spike in your household's mains.
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There was a fair bit of thundery activity around last night, as well as heavy rain. I'm thinking a nanosecond power supply interruption or spike in your household's mains.
Just started up another Laptop and thats working fine..
I blame Global Warming :D
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There was a fair bit of thundery activity around last night, as well as heavy rain. I'm thinking a nanosecond power supply interruption or spike in your household's mains.
Sounds like a prickly problem. ::)
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Seeing as none of mine have blue screened, and it needs a kernel process to bsod it, I'm guessing something with the AV...
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Your lucky.....last time my laptop had the blue screen of death.....it needed rebuilding.....actually just remembered thats not true.....it blue screened about two weeks ago on start up.....but it had been running on battery and went into suspend mode.....so i guess the battery gave up before it had finished 'suspending'.....its got a knackered battery in it......will run for 20mins max on battery.
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Your lucky.....last time my laptop had the blue screen of death.....it needed rebuilding.....actually just remembered thats not true.....it blue screened about two weeks ago on start up.....but it had been running on battery and went into suspend mode.....so i guess the battery gave up before it had finished 'suspending'.....its got a knackered battery in it......will run for 20mins max on battery.
Last time mine bsod'd was when I was laying in the bath, and I dropped it :-[
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Your lucky.....last time my laptop had the blue screen of death.....it needed rebuilding.....actually just remembered thats not true.....it blue screened about two weeks ago on start up.....but it had been running on battery and went into suspend mode.....so i guess the battery gave up before it had finished 'suspending'.....its got a knackered battery in it......will run for 20mins max on battery.
Last time mine bsod'd was when I was laying in the bath, and I dropped it :-[
Was that bsod or crackle fizz pop cloud of smoke?
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Your lucky.....last time my laptop had the blue screen of death.....it needed rebuilding.....actually just remembered thats not true.....it blue screened about two weeks ago on start up.....but it had been running on battery and went into suspend mode.....so i guess the battery gave up before it had finished 'suspending'.....its got a knackered battery in it......will run for 20mins max on battery.
Last time mine bsod'd was when I was laying in the bath, and I dropped it :-[
Was that bsod or crackle fizz pop cloud of smoke?
It was balanced on the side. Fortunately it fell on the floor, rather than in the wet stuff...
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Your lucky.....last time my laptop had the blue screen of death.....it needed rebuilding.....actually just remembered thats not true.....it blue screened about two weeks ago on start up.....but it had been running on battery and went into suspend mode.....so i guess the battery gave up before it had finished 'suspending'.....its got a knackered battery in it......will run for 20mins max on battery.
Last time mine bsod'd was when I was laying in the bath, and I dropped it :-[
Was that bsod or crackle fizz pop cloud of smoke?
It was balanced on the side. Fortunately it fell on the floor, rather than in the wet stuff...
Lucky.
Got a bsod screensaver somewhere, must put it on her lappy when I find it. ;D ;D
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Your lucky.....last time my laptop had the blue screen of death.....it needed rebuilding.....actually just remembered thats not true.....it blue screened about two weeks ago on start up.....but it had been running on battery and went into suspend mode.....so i guess the battery gave up before it had finished 'suspending'.....its got a knackered battery in it......will run for 20mins max on battery.
Last time mine bsod'd was when I was laying in the bath, and I dropped it :-[
Was that bsod or crackle fizz pop cloud of smoke?
It was balanced on the side. Fortunately it fell on the floor, rather than in the wet stuff...
Lucky.
Got a bsod screensaver somewhere, must put it on her lappy when I find it. ;D ;D
That'll be the old Sysinternals one then...
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We had some fun with "senior management" - the ones who always want the newest fastest machines .. but never use them ... with this ..
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/BlueScreen.mspx
which I believe is the one to which TB is refering ... :)
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We had some fun with "senior management" - the ones who always want the newest fastest machines .. but never use them ... with this ..
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/BlueScreen.mspx
which I believe is the one to which TB is refering ... :)
yup, thats the one. Not seen it since sysinternals was bought my MS
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Could be AV etc, though keep in mind that Microsoft say that 80% of BSOD are due to hardware issues, and from my experience I would agree with that...
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Got a bsod screensaver somewhere, must put it on her lappy when I find it.
A colleague of mine had one of them. He uninstalled it after, for about the fifth time, a manager passing his desk stopped and hit the reset button! ;D
Kevin
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...which is why PCs should NOT have Reset buttons... what's worst I've seen those on some cheap and nasty file servers believe it or not, ouch.
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Got a bsod screensaver somewhere, must put it on her lappy when I find it.
A colleague of mine had one of them. He uninstalled it after, for about the fifth time, a manager passing his desk stopped and hit the reset button! ;D
Kevin
Seen that soooo many times ;D