I have noticed a plague of bsods of late on other sites I post. I am curious. In win 7 (RTM 7600) if you have experiend a bsod are you 32 bit or 64?
Ken
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My BSOD was caused by my video card driver. ATI Windows 7 driver for Toshiba Satellite A305-S6841 fails when waking up from sleep mode. It is the latest driver for this laptop video card and after trying all possible settings for sleep mode, finally disabled sleep mode and now use hibernate. Have had no BSOD issue since switching to hibernate.
x32, perhaps?
No, x86 is the correct designation. See x86 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for a discussion.
Joe
--Joe
I’ve had Win7 64bit for about 6 weeks, and have had 3 bsod that I remember. Two were caused by a driver for a USB-to-Serial cable (for a scanner radio), and the latest one happened when I tried to use the Tools menu on Adobe Reader. It may have been related to the ATI 4350 graphics card, because the display was hosed for a few seconds prior to the bsod. I couldn’t recreate it, or figure out anything from the event viewer.
Same here, 64 bit on 3 laptops, 32 bit on a desktop, no BSODs. It appears , in reading many posts on this problem, that most of these BSODs are caused by incompatibilities or, as Gerald had, what appears to be poorly written drivers. It does not appear to be a 32 bit or 64 bit problem.
I have noticed a plague of bsods of late on other sites I post. I am curious. In win 7 (RTM 7600) if you have experiend a bsod are you 32 bit or 64?
Ken
My BSOD was caused by the ASUS EPU drivers. I de-installed them and BSOD’s disappeared. I am running W7 64bit; 8Gb DDR3 GSkill (4 x 2Gb); i7 Quad 860; ASUS P7P55LX, ATI Radeon X1900XTX.
CF
It appears there is a common “thread” running through these postings. It appears that much of the problems with BSOD is related to hardware that may be older or does not have updated drivers available. I’m wondering if Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor would have shown any of these problems in advance. This would have saved a lot of headaches for many of us here.
The Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor gave the all clear on my Toshiba, and the ATI driver Toshiba made available is a Windows 7 64 bit driver. But that’s not the first buggy video driver I’ve seen. Drivers written for hardware using a new OS are particularly susceptible to “bugginess”. Vista was on the Toshiba originally, and I would definitely check any machine with the Upgrade Advisor before proceeding with the Win 7 upgrade. If the Advisor had found a show stopper in any of my key hardware, I would still be using Vista on the Toshiba today.
I am running a new build of Win. 7 Pro 64 bit and have had BSOD’s several times in the last four days. My Windows install is already activated but I would like to start over and do a clean install. Will I be able to do that without reactivating? If I have to reactivate how do I do that? Will I have to call Microsoft? I am new at this so any help you could give I would appreciate. Thanks in advance.
I have been running Win 7 64x since release. I have had 19 BSOD and 4 freezes since then — very annoying. It mostly happens with wake from sleep or from hibernation. However, I have had it happen while simply typing in Word. To me its like the Win ME days. I keep searching for solutions, but haven’t found any that work.
I have five Win 7 computers, one of which is out of commission for what are almost certainly unrelated hardware problems (it is Win 7×64), leaving me with two working x64 and two x32, all of them Ultimate. None of them gives me any BSOD problems now, but that may be partly because I was on the Win 7 bandwagon early in the game (with the RTM version well in advance of its public release) and I went through the teething troubles of drivers as things were released. That is the part of it that took time.
I certainly agree with the opinion that the upgrade utility will or should tell you a great deal, even or especially if you already have Win 7 installed, but much depends on exactly what your hardware is. That having been said, I am skeptical of complaints about Win 7 and would suggest that the problem is likely to lie elsewhere. In my case at least, with admittedly all computers but one from the same manufacturer, Win 7 gives me no BSOD at all. That, however, has much to do with the fact that the drivers are available now, where they were not previously available.
I have five Win 7 computers, one of which is out of commission for what are almost certainly unrelated hardware problems (it is Win 7×64).
So much for that theory. The computer in question does indeed have a BSOD problem, as I discovered today, and I must now count myself among the ranks of the BSOD-afflicted. On the bright side, it is far more likely to be curable than the feared hardware failure.
Of three machines that I know about I’ve not had any BSODs. Two are x64 Ultimate and one is x86 Ultimate.
Joe
x32, perhaps?
x86 is intended to mean the same as 32-bit. It must be a Microsoft or Intel designation eh?
No BSODs on 1 x64 or 2 x86 7 systems here btw. Funky NIC/networking performance on each system but once the latest drivers are installed, the problem has gone away in each case.
Yesterday’s updates brought a handful specifically for X64, several of which were ‘important’, so for those following the BSOD matter might like to see if they are of any help and post results here.
As for 8088 or 1066 And All That, I was gently teasing, and now I’m scared to touch it with a barge-pole.
I am running Win 7 x64 and have had 21 BSOD and counting. Most have come from wake from hiberation or sleep. 3 have come while just working on the computer. I have applied all MSFT patches with no success, including some KB item from MSFT support.
Have you kept track of the details?
Joe
--Joe
When I first ran into trouble it was after partitioning the drive, and I thought that was the cause. Then I decided it was probably a hardware problem. A few days ago I tried again and Windows was obliging enough to report a BSOD crash, but I didn’t get a chance to read the report. The next time I booted I managed to grab a dozen updates, all ‘important’, as well as third-party updates. On running an all-in-one utility I got the news that there were drive errors, and after repeated runs to correct them the computer is better than ever.
Drive errors can affect any system (although it would be interesting to know if 64-bit systems are any more vulnerable once you do have them). I think in partitioning and correcting errors, it is best to boot and perform the operations from another drive rather than from the drive you are trying to fix. I also think it useful to run drive utilities as a preventive. Conclusion: drive errors caused my BSOD under 64-bit Win 7, and Win 7 was not to blame.
Sometimes them BSOD go by so fast you can’t read them. What I done is grab my digital camera and be watching real close when it gets to the point where I know it crashes and I start recording.
Was able to then pause it and figure out error code from another PC. Then the problem really begins trying to sort that code out on google
Sometimes them BSOD go by so fast you can’t read them. What I done is grab my digital camera and be watching real close when it gets to the point where I know it crashes and I start recording.
Was able to then pause it and figure out error code from another PC. Then the problem really begins trying to sort that code out on google
You need to have the system not automatically restart. Right click on “Computer”,Select Properties. Then
1.) Click on “Advanced System Settings.
2.) Click the “Settings” button in “Startup and Recovery”.
3.) Uncheck “Automatically Restart” in “System Failure”.
OK your way out. The next BSOD you get the system will pause so you can record the details.
Joe
--Joe
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