Blue screen of Death

Yikes!

Turn off automatic reboot. That'll give you time to write down the error.

On XP: Properties of My Computer->Advanced->Startup and Recovery Settings->Uncheck Automatically Restart.

God, that's the worst. Was it acting up in any other way? Have you been experiencing slowness in operation?

Cycloptichorn

Have you installed any new drivers, software applications, or hardware recently? I have an old thread around here somewhere with the same issue. I'll see if I can find it.

I was always convinced that I was overtaxing my cache, but Mr B gave me one of those looks when I mentioned it.

Edit -- found it...
http://able2know.org/topic/81875-1

The puter has been slow from Day 1....but that's Windows Vista for you.

i haven't noticed anything suspicious yesterday or this morning. I haven't completely shut it down for a few days, maybe I should do that to clear memory or whatnot (as if I knew what I'm talking about).... i just put it on hibernate since i want to just continue where i left off.

DD, I will do that if I find it... but I did see that the error message was different each time on the blue screen. don't know why that is. i wish it was the same so that i can focus on that one thing. bah.

funny thing is that this computer was bought for me by my organization. The boss called me today to let me know that i can keep it (I'm moving away) as a token of appreciation.... I was looking at the blue screen at that very moment, so my gratefulness was rather diminished.

Well, yaknow, Vista isn't all that slow per se; my vista setup at home is screaming fast.

Have you been running up to date virus software?

If you have backed everything up, it's not a bad idea to re-install.

Cheers
Cycloptichorn

thanks, i'll look into that.

It's a Gateway tablet, with Windows Vista, 100 GB (maybe 120) hard drive, 1GB RAM
It's pretty new and there should be plenty of space

As for updates, I'm thinking.... but I don't remember installing or updating anything recently... it may have done some on its own, it always updates McAfee - once a day or once every two days. That's all I can think of though.

I know little (if any about computers), however, I remember a co-worker getting the "blue screen of death" and the IT person said they needed to replace the mother board.

Now don't ask me what all this means.

i backed everything up today, after the blue screens started appearing. it crashed midway through virus and ad-aware scans, which i started after 2nd blue screen. i am re-running them now.

i noticed though that each time the blue screen appeared it was after a few minutes of inactivity - when i went to make cofee and then lunch.... it seems the computer just doesn't want to be left alone and throws a temper tantrum...but that might be related, no? maybe something with the sleep mode or whatnot.

unfortunately i do know. been there. but i'm hoping it's not motherboard. it could be something as simple as a driver.

Ad-aware reports all is clean.... but i am puzzled by the "Memory Available: 10%" that shows in the log below. I should have more than 50% of memory free... eh?

Ad-Aware Build
Log File Created on: 2008-08-21 13:37:34
Using Definitions File: C:\ProgramData\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware\core.aawdef
Computer name: DAGMARINOBRLO
Name of user performing scan: SYSTEM

System information
===========================
Number of processors: 2
Processor type: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU U7500 @ 1.06GHz
Memory Available: 10%
Total Physical Memory: 1062666240 Bytes
Available Physical Memory: 96555008 Bytes
Total Page File Size: 2386550784 Bytes
Available On Page File: 948768768 Bytes
Total Virtual Memory: 2147352576 Bytes
Available Virtual Memory: 2007924736 Bytes
OS: Microsoft Windows Vista (Build 6000)

try clearing out your cache (regardless of what Mr B says). I found that the more pics and graphics I had in my cache the more often I got a blue screen.

errr.....how? In internet options?? Or is there some other cache somewhere else? Maybe i'll do the cleanup through "free up space on your hard drive" thingy.

I'm clueless re Vista.

Vista really needs at least 2GB of RAM, that's why it's slow for you.

To clear cache on Mozilla
Tools > Options > Clear private data (after you adjust Settings)

For blue screen of doom, start here:
Start > Run > type in box that opens "chkdsk /r" with no quotes

ok. cache cleared, freeing space, defragmenting.....

i also checked events log and had a series of warnings at 9:30 am along these lines:
Windows Servicing identified that package WUClient-SelfUpdate-Aux-Package-de-DE-MiniLP(Feature Pack) is not applicable for this system
...if that means anything

dag -- this is from timber's response on my thread. If you're only at 10%...

Dag - I'd rather wait for Robert Gentel to come back on that one: he knows so much more about it than I do.

If he's not back in an hour I'll post my idea. Meanwhile, download Spybot if you don't already have it.