Right, BSOD is pissing me off now :wall:
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Right, BSOD is pissing me off now :wall:
Since installing the Widcomm bluetooth stack and plugging my bluetooth USB dongle in I have been having problems with this "Blue Screen Of Death" that for no apparent reason with no warning suddenly shuts down the PC with a blue screen with white writing on it saying that Windows encountered a serious error and has shut down to avoid damage.
This has to be a hardware issue and not a software issue, as it always mentioned a piece of hardwareis not working or something to that effect and I get this message in on the screen
IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL
I think it HAS to be the actual BT dongle itself. Cos I had this happen only when the dongle is plugged in, both this recent installation time and last year when I tried it. Both times it was with different software the only thing that is the same is the dongle itself.
Any idea's before I wipe the fucking thing and reformat the machine? Is it worth spending money on another BT dongle that might not cuase conflict with the PC and cuse this BSOD? If so, which one and how do I know it won't just have the same internals as the one I have, just in different packaging?
Cos it's pissing me off now, cos it happens with no warning and anything I haven't saved just gets lost
This has to be a hardware issue and not a software issue, as it always mentioned a piece of hardwareis not working or something to that effect and I get this message in on the screen
IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL
I think it HAS to be the actual BT dongle itself. Cos I had this happen only when the dongle is plugged in, both this recent installation time and last year when I tried it. Both times it was with different software the only thing that is the same is the dongle itself.
Any idea's before I wipe the fucking thing and reformat the machine? Is it worth spending money on another BT dongle that might not cuase conflict with the PC and cuse this BSOD? If so, which one and how do I know it won't just have the same internals as the one I have, just in different packaging?
Cos it's pissing me off now, cos it happens with no warning and anything I haven't saved just gets lost
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Do I have to format it? It's a fucking pain
And for the hassle it ain't worth sending the dongle back. Had it since November or whenever it was but not really used it as I didn't like the HID/software it came with... And it's from fooking China or Hong Kong or somewhere so it'd cost too much, might aswell buy a new one... But which one!
And do I have to format? Other than this it's (the PC) absolutely fine!
And for the hassle it ain't worth sending the dongle back. Had it since November or whenever it was but not really used it as I didn't like the HID/software it came with... And it's from fooking China or Hong Kong or somewhere so it'd cost too much, might aswell buy a new one... But which one!
And do I have to format? Other than this it's (the PC) absolutely fine!
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Yeah I did that yesterday as it gave the BSOD three times in as many hours!
So I swapped it to another port, and whilst it didn't crash, it did ask me to reinstall a driver for it......
I will find out later when I get home and boot it up if it works from boot up in this new USB port. It hasn't been working in the one it was in, I would boot up and it would say "no device connected" so I'd have to pull it out and plug it in again... Then 10 mins later it would BSOD....
So we shall see later......
So I swapped it to another port, and whilst it didn't crash, it did ask me to reinstall a driver for it......
I will find out later when I get home and boot it up if it works from boot up in this new USB port. It hasn't been working in the one it was in, I would boot up and it would say "no device connected" so I'd have to pull it out and plug it in again... Then 10 mins later it would BSOD....
So we shall see later......
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having exactly the same issue with a machine at work.
It's a driver problem, about 2/3rds of the way down the screen should be details of the driver file causing the problem.
be damned if I can work out how to fix it thought!
It's a driver problem, about 2/3rds of the way down the screen should be details of the driver file causing the problem.
be damned if I can work out how to fix it thought!
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Well mines been good as gold since I reinstalled it all and changed the bluetooth usb dongle. Only thing is it won't let me manually install the new USB dongle, it auto installs which is fucking annoying as I want to run it using the Widcomm stack not the poxy built in Microsoft stack
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Have you tried turning on "use legacy usb" in the bios. Seemed to remember this solving something along these lines a while back.
Also some motherboards have a jumper which can be set to feed more power through to the usb ports at the back. Sometimes altering this can help.
Just a couple of ideas, hope they help.
Tim
Also some motherboards have a jumper which can be set to feed more power through to the usb ports at the back. Sometimes altering this can help.
Just a couple of ideas, hope they help.
Tim
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Thrush if you want to use the widcomm stack you have to manually disable the microsoft bluetooth device from within device manager. Then install the widcomm stack.
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I did that. I installed the Widcomm stack the way I did before (install, boot into safe mode, swap the 4 files over, reboot)
Went into Device manager, and one the bluetooth entries I selected "do not use this device)
Then unplugged the bluetooth dongle and plugged it back in.
But the problem is Windows automatically assigns the driver without letting me specify it. It doesn't open up the new hardware wizard like it did before, it just pops up the balloon in the task bar, then says "driver found" and installs it to the MS Stack. It doesn't give me the option to search from a specific location
Have a look here : https://passionford.com/forum/viewto...ight=bluetooth
Went into Device manager, and one the bluetooth entries I selected "do not use this device)
Then unplugged the bluetooth dongle and plugged it back in.
But the problem is Windows automatically assigns the driver without letting me specify it. It doesn't open up the new hardware wizard like it did before, it just pops up the balloon in the task bar, then says "driver found" and installs it to the MS Stack. It doesn't give me the option to search from a specific location
Have a look here : https://passionford.com/forum/viewto...ight=bluetooth
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