Windows XP: Poll: What was the cause of your last BSOD?
- 8/14/09 1:08 PM
Poll: What was the cause of your last BSOD?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 8/14/09 1:08 PM
The last time you encountered a Windows blue screen of death, what was the cause of it?
Software issue (Please explain what it was.)
Hardware issue (Please explain what it was.)
No clue as to what caused it. (Is it still a problem?)
What’s a BSOD?
I don’t do Windows
BSOD
by jean harrington - 8/14/09 6:28 PM In reply to: Poll: What was the cause of your last BSOD? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
You did not give enough choices.
No BSOD
by BunnyBuns - 8/15/09 9:45 AM In reply to: BSOD by jean harringtonExactly, Jean. I've never gotten the BSOD on any desktop or laptop I've owned, and I've owned computers for 15+ years, using them every day.
Whenever I've gotten a new PC or laptop, it's not because the equipment failed but because I wanted to upgrade to something faster and more powerful yet more compact.
Last BSOD
by jazzy5 - 8/14/09 6:42 PM In reply to: Poll: What was the cause of your last BSOD? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My last BSOD was..... Oh yes, Windows 98. Trying to get a new game I bought to run. The game needed extended memory to run and a special boot disk. It took me a while to get it going and then I found the game was not worth the hassle.
Since all my desktop are build by myself with quality parts and I do my own maintenance (Clean inside and out) I never had any problem, no BSOD.
Since I also repair computers of friends and family, I also found out that most of the problem with their computers are another error code with the ID Ten T (ID10T)
BSODs, software vs hardware
by ramo89 - 8/14/09 7:06 PM In reply to: Last BSOD by jazzy5I won't lie, I have had a few BSODs that I know for sure were a result of software conflicts or inconsistencies. Who's to blame, the software producer or the creators of the operating system? Beats me... Although, since I've started using XP with SP3, I can't ever recall BSOD'ing from a software issue.
I do overclock my rig quite a bit though, and while I'm testing for stability, of course I'm going to get BSODs.. quite a bit actually, but that's totally normal, especially when you're pushing a Q6600 to do 4.0GHz on air + aftermarket HSF 
... for the record, I've only ever managed 3.75GHz (it was a B3 stepping); only stable enough to make a few runs of 3DMark06, ORTHOS and OCCT to set some benchmarking scores, but eventually it BSODs...
Besides overclocking, I've had some peripherals that for whatever reason will cause a BSOD with any system I connect it to. I think in someway the circuitry/board, or the data within the hardware in question (something like a usb key or mp3 player) is corrupted.
I think the whole thing about the BSOD is just so inflated and overhyped.. other OSs will hang, freeze and have catastrophic failures.. the BSOD, I think, just freaks people out because one minute you're looking at your desktop, and the next minute you have this bright blue screen with bright, scary old-school font, and I'm sure that sorta extreme transition freaks people out, whereas the screen just hanging or blacking out has less of a signature to it, people can't really call it anything, it's just a standard freeze, so you don't get this sorta infamous legacy with it...
Don't know.
by mwooge - 8/14/09 7:19 PM In reply to: Poll: What was the cause of your last BSOD? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I clicked on "hardware", but I don't really remember. They should have included an "I don't remember" button.
Last BSOD
by sirpaul1 - 8/14/09 7:26 PM In reply to: Poll: What was the cause of your last BSOD? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Also my first BSOD on XPSP2. Apparently, Window screens don't like to be shut down before they load completely!
A recent BSOD was ....
by leedoran - 8/14/09 7:41 PM In reply to: Poll: What was the cause of your last BSOD? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
....my power supply ! For a few weeks my computer (Gateway Quad Core Q6600, 3GB RAM, 500 GB HD, 8500GT) would run, then turn off and try to reboot. it would usually just 'correct itself' - i.e the PC would run, but recently it continued cycling, and would not boot completely. I did see the dreaded BSOD but was unable to read the details. I decided if it was a hardware failure, the first item I would replace would be the power supply, since the one that came with the system was a no-name PSU that was 19 months old and, worst case, I would have a better PSU to use if I needed to continue to find the cause of the problems. But immediately after replacement of the PSU with an Antec 650 watt (Earthwatts EA-650) the system booted faster and there have been no BSOD issues since. Cost of repair: 80 bucks plus shipping. Possibly worth it for continual BSODs on boot.
bad connection
by paradis00 - 8/14/09 7:52 PM In reply to: Poll: What was the cause of your last BSOD? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
BSOD happened at random. It was a hard drive connection that was just a bit loose.
What's a BSOD
by ny2nv - 8/14/09 7:55 PM In reply to: Poll: What was the cause of your last BSOD? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Since using Vista (March 2007) I haven't seen BSOD.
Over 2 years with Vista.
XP was the last time.
My Last BSOD(Blue screen of Death)
by BenShami - 8/14/09 8:13 PM In reply to: Poll: What was the cause of your last BSOD? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It was my first windows xp install. I rebooted and windows went into repair mode and the BSOD never came back... I was warned that might happen with my first copy of xp as a new product(it was way before any service packs). I have never had a BSOD since that time, I built the machine myself, and I have built 7 since then and refurbished 3 without a problem. I do check all my connections before I turn the power on and I generally test every part on my demo machine before I install it to make sure it works. I read all I can read on a part off the internet before I purchase a part including the retail page and manufacturers pages as well as reviews and test results from places like toms hardware and read all the instructions before I install. I check for current drivers, for instance I have a xp build that has a agp card, the manufacturer built a current video card build with legacy agp, the only driver that would work was the manufacturers edition, because it was an adaptation to a legacy video bus, great card by the way, and, if you ran the manufacturers driver it worked great... if you ran the designers copy that was made for pci e 2.0 you might have gotten a BSOD 
.
Drivers
by grandam121 - 8/14/09 8:15 PM In reply to: Poll: What was the cause of your last BSOD? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Driver conflicting with windows.
BSOD
by ftyson1947 - 8/14/09 8:30 PM In reply to: Poll: What was the cause of your last BSOD? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Could be weak power supply or heat issue maybe cpu fan and heatsink is pluged with dust bunnies .
virus
by couke - 8/14/09 8:46 PM In reply to: Poll: What was the cause of your last BSOD? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
the last bsod i got was on my old computer with xp and IE6 a/v avast...3 years ago...it was a virus in my temp folder...that i received when avast home updated..got rid of avast and started using another a/v...never seen it again
BSOD
by smit jones - 8/14/09 10:29 PM In reply to: Poll: What was the cause of your last BSOD? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It was a couple of years back. We were running a 4 year old computer from a well known company (name withheld). When we turned the computer on, it would immediatly (ie within 10 seconds) show a BSOD. you would restart it, and you had to leave it for a few minutes before you could do anything with it.
It turned out the capacitors in the processor were oozing - not healthy
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