Blue Screen Of Death! ewww

[flashpoint603]

Howdy,

ever since i installed vista 64 i get these blue screens a few times a day. all of my hardware worked fine in xp, it says something about physical memory dump blah blah blah.

Anyways, when i get back on windows does a "solution check" or something. It claims that it is my antivirus software (NOD32) which is updated. if anyone has any suggestions i am all ears b/c this is drving me nutz!!!

THX IN ADVANCE

[forrehmmnd]

Have you tried reformatting ?

[flashpoint603]

twice

[forrehmmnd]

Hmm, thats odd. what exactly does the blue screen say ?. i havent had one in a while but it should tell you what caused the problem.

[flashpoint603]

dont have much time to read it, but it says something about dumping physical memory and it restarts my computer once the dump gets to 100%

vista gives me a solution when it boots back up, says its my antivirus. NOD32

[TheGamerZ]

System Properties > Advanced tab > Start up and Recovery > Settings button > uncheck "automatically restart"

That way the BSOD will stay up until you restart manually.

[forrehmmnd]

It might be a driver conflict or something, you never know. Thats why i need to know what it says. Have you tried a different anti-virus ? I haven't had any problems with NOD 32 but i haven't had it very long either.

[Hurdler]

Have you tested your memory lately?

[JVC]

have you updated vista? try windows update.

[As I Lay Dying]

have you taken a look at the bsod, when I got them on vista it was because of my nvidia soundcard drivers. you may need to play around with drivers and versions.

[DeaconFrost]

System Properties > Advanced tab > Start up and Recovery > Settings button > uncheck "automatically restart"
It still amazes me that this isn't something everyone does immediately after getting their Windows install done. Anyway, this should be a given, because it allows you to write down the details of the BSOD, so there's something to work with. Don't overlook the possible cause that Vista is showing.

[JVC]

try updating windows!!! it may solve all problems imo. ms is constantly fixing vista.

[lodingi]

Make sure you NOD32 is version 2.70 or higher. Vista has problems with version before 2.70. I am having zero issues with NOD32 & Vista Ultimate 64.

[munkle]

It still amazes me that this isn't something everyone does immediately after getting their Windows install done. Anyway, this should be a given, because it allows you to write down the details of the BSOD, so there's something to work with. Don't overlook the possible cause that Vista is showing.

I used to do it but with only 1 bsod (nvidia drivers) on windows xp in 3 years I stopped caring.

[dekruyter]

You're not using Norton Anti Virus, are you?

[zacdl]

Did a quick little search, but take a look here:
http://faq.tweakers.net/wos/howto/bsodguide/bsod_big.gif

That's some of the info we need to help you out (Highlighted even, but not in English, whatever...)

Being you have NOD32, I wouldn't think you have Norton installed. Being that it worked on XP- I'm thinking your RAM is fine.

[evilmedic]

My guess is the nvidia drivers. The latest vista x64 BETA drivers aren't exactly stable........ look for the words start with nv on the BSOD screen.

[flashpoint603]

I have it set now so it wont restart on a crash. Just waiting for the error again so I can write down everything it says. NOD32 is updated. RAM stress test went perfect. Are the Vista Solutions usually accurate?

[zacdl]

Are the Vista Solutions usually accurate?

Depends. Obviously no computer has the troubleshooting/problem solving ability of humans, but some folks have reported Vista found the solution right away.
Myself personally, haven't found it useful yet.

[flashpoint603]

My guess is the nvidia drivers. The latest vista x64 BETA drivers aren't exactly stable........ look for the words start with nv on the BSOD screen.

BINGO!

I finally was able to read the blue screen. It says the display driver crashed and timed out.

Thx to all for the suggestions to my problem.

[Ranma_Sao]

Again, always happy to help debug these driver dumps...

Look at the thread ID in my signature. ;)