BSODs! Old article — but sage, relevant advice

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This link takes you to an old article dealing with Blue Screens of Death (BSODs), what they mean and how to take corrective action. I believe it is still relevant and may be of help to many. How say you?

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/blue_screen_survival_guide?page=0,0

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Still a relevant article, thanks.

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Still a relevant article, thanks.

When did you last have one, Clint?!

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This link takes you to an old article dealing with Blue Screens of Death (BSODs), what they mean and how to take corrective action. I believe it is still relevant and may be of help to many. How say you?

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/blue_screen_survival_guide?page=0,0

Peter,
Hello and thanks for the link… personally knowing little on how to interpret BSOD’s any information is useful (old or not ) I also suspect that there are many more in my camp ( ) than in the other. Regards Fred

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@Fred J Usack: Believe me, Fred, I am decidedly in YOUR camp!

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Wasn’t Winders 7 supposed to be BSOD proof? That was one of the big selling features as I remember it! Security, stability, added features, all designed to make Win 7 the ultimate OS. Wasn’t that the pitch?

I’ve personally never had a BSOD in windows 7, but then I only run it for testing and educational purposes and not as my everyday OS. So maybe I’ve just not pushed it to the breaking point yet.
But, I have loaded it with almost all the programs I run on XP and my entire security software package as well, and still no BSOD’s.
Gee, I feel like I’m missing out on all the fun

The (witch) Doctor

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Wasn’t Winders 7 supposed to be BSOD proof? That was one of the big selling features as I remember it! Security, stability, added features, all designed to make Win 7 the ultimate OS. Wasn’t that the pitch?

Some things never change, the BSOD is one of them. I’ve had a few relating to memory when I first stated with Windows 7.
As it turned out, the motherboard didn’t like the 4 GBs of memory I installed along side the 4 GBs I had already had. I had to purchase
a whole new set of 2GB x 4.

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This old article would of came in handy some time back! Sure would of saved me a lot time trouble shooting,a friends computer last year.Thanks for the heads up.

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Another good old resource for STOP issues is…

TROUBLESHOOTING WINDOWS STOP MESSAGES

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Found this BSOD site recently on Gismo’s site. It helped me help another as I am not an Alphageek but only “abetageek” ha!

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Thanks a lot. The article is till useful and WILL BE

D.Balaji
India

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