Blue screen of death while unlocking computer with Visual Studio 2010 running

Question

I have Visual Studio 2010 installed along with DevExpress 10.2. When I lock the machine and unlock it, a blue screen of death appears.

I also experience the same problem when the machine is kept running for about one to two hours. The same software is installed on a desktop, but no problem there.

My laptop is a Dell Latitude E6410.

Answer 1

Read some articles about finding root cause of BSOD, here are few:

• HOW TO: Debug Memory Dumps (Figure out what is causing a BSOD)
• How to debug a (BSOD) Blue Screen of Death – Part 1
• How to debug a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)- Part 2

Answer 2

I'm getting the same problem on a Lenovo T410 (running xp 32bit). If I come out of vs2010 before locking the screen it does. Turning off hardware acceleration for WPF seems to have helped

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970912.aspx#disablehardwareacceleration

Your milage may vary though.

Answer 3

Solution/workaround to model Dell Latitude e6410: Upgrade with graphics driver XP32 Intel GMA HD Integrated Graphics Driver ( Intel_multi-device_A05_R296698). The crash issue while locking and unlocking doesn't happen again.