Like the title says, my laptop crashes everyday, atleast once a day randomly and i get a blue screen with this error: http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g227/mlexxus/bsod.jpg
I ran many tests including pc-check, winstress and all the dell diagnostics and none of them find any errors in my system. I dont get it. Anybody have an idea what it could be?
Thanks
FastM
01-31-2007, 11:15 AM
try this test, i have found it to be pretty accurate. Run it overnight to be sure.
http://hcidesign.com/memtest/
if not, download the Ultimate Boot CD "UBCD" and run some HD tests.
Although very rare, it could be a CPU thing, Prime95 is a good CPU stress-test software.
mlexxus
01-31-2007, 11:31 AM
try this test, i have found it to be pretty accurate. Run it overnight to be sure.
http://hcidesign.com/memtest/
if not, download the Ultimate Boot CD "UBCD" and run some HD tests.
Although very rare, it could be a CPU thing, Prime95 is a good CPU stress-test software.
thanks! will give it a try
dougadamsfan
01-31-2007, 12:02 PM
I got this after trying a "repair install" of xp from the xp disk, after an automatic update corrupted my svchost.exe. Ended up doing a restore to shipped config (CNTRL + F11 on startup) and the problem hasn't come back.
Try using the system restore to roll your system back to how it was before you started getting these problems. Does this happen if you boot into safe mode? Mine worked in safe mode and that was the only way I could back up my data.
ChrisLilley
01-31-2007, 12:14 PM
Like the title says, my laptop crashes everyday, atleast once a day randomly and i get a blue screen with this error:
I ran many tests including pc-check, winstress and all the dell diagnostics and none of them find any errors in my system. I dont get it. Anybody have an idea what it could be?
Thanks
I had that twice on my new M90 in its first two weeks of life. Furthermore it wouldn't boot afterwards - just sat there with lights flashing in what dell said was a pattern meaning 'no RAM detected'.
I called Dell tech support - I was in the US at the time so that was handy, i could talk to them in English - and they said to take out the memory, then reseat it; testing with just one stick of ram at a time.
At that point it looked like one bad stick, one good stick.
But then, swapping around to the other memory socket, it was getting inconsistent. Looked like it might be a motherboard fault.
Then suddenly it was all okay with both sticks in.
A day later it did it again, but was re-seating the memory once more, it fine when I rebooted.
Not seen that problem since then. Although, I now have a video problem.