when i watch vids or try and play online games i keep getting a blue screen with white writing saying a load of rubbish and says something about dumping data and it crashes any ideas or shall i take a hammer to it does it have a bad virus? or is there a bust component my bird was doing 10 hours of uni work offline yesterday and not a problem but it seems to keep happening to me even when i look on ebay

 

You are getting the "Blue Screen Of Death" - or BSOD in shorthand....

It will say something like this;



The important bit is to see if it says "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL"

If it does then the problem will most likely lie in the graffix card drivers, seeing as it only does this for video's and games, both of which show on the screen directly from the gfx card, rather than through the OS (which is why you can't do a screen print of a video )

You need to either re-install the original driver (if the gfx card is a stock item that came in the machine when you got it, you should have autilities disc for this, or if it is an aftermarket componant, then you should have a driver installation disc) or "roll back" the driver to try and find an alternative that doesn't cause you problems.

Try this link for explantions to rolling back drivers;

http://support.microsoft.com/default...283657&sd=tech

I had this problem lots and lots and lots when I installed a bluetooth usb device and used the driver that came with it. 5 mins after turning on I would get this BSOD, but if I unplugged the bluetooth USB stick and rebooted it was fine. Plug the bluetooth usb device back in, 5 mins later I would get a crash with this screen. It was because the device driver conflicted with Windows XP OS and they kept having a little fall out

I did a SYSTEM RESTORE back to the day BEFORE I installed the driver and it has been fine ever since (I am not using that bluetooth device anymore I might add)

That is the other thing you can do - if you remember when this started happening, you can use the System Restore feature to go back to the day before. This will only work if the problem isn't associated with a new graffix card you have fitted tho....

See this link for using the System Restore correctly;

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q306084

 

Now this is the only time you wanna see that message!!!

 

cheers mate i will try it out if not the bats coming out and its a gonna

 

ive reinstalled all my drivers and its not done it since but theres still time

 

Driver problem then mate Sounds like you got it licked

 

If not, wipe it clean and start again, microsoft claim that Windows XP should not generate a blue screen of death

 

Bollox I think they are lying - cos I had a chronic spell of it a couple months ago lol....

 

right since i installed the drivers its only done it once that was when i tryed to play a game but before it was doing on ebay and allsort now its just on games so can i safely say the graphics cards fuct ?

 

I reckon you can

What card is it?

 

cant remember it was about 3 year ago new cards not alot anyway ill keep you posted

 

Could possibly be a heat issue, try it with the side of the case off

 

ok mate will do that

 

your the man mate it kept happening to me tonight so ive stripped both sides off the tower and its mint even letting me play games so what doo i need a better fan ?

 

May be worth checking your DirectX version to.

Go to run type DXDIAG and at the bottom will be the version. You could upgrade that to.

 

You could probably do with blowing the system out, getting rid of the dust and crap in there if you can

 

yep done that with my hoover its mint without the sides on lol not fucked up once

 

 

lol whats wrong mate

 

Dan's about to tell you about all the tiny bits n bobs you may well have lost by hoovering out your PC

Like these for example;



Little jumper blocks that will be all over your mobo, which dictate settings

Plus little rsistors etc that easily come off with a good bit of suction

Dan don't like hoovers in PC's. When I found this on ebay and posted it up (cos I thought it was a bit daft) he told me off

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-USB-VACUUM...QQcmdZViewItem

 

pmsl my dysons a right sucker aswell

 

ours is too, it screams at us in a very high pitch sound