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.
Solution/workaround for Dell Latitude E6410:
Upgrade the 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.
Read some articles about finding root cause of BSOD, here are few:
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.
Any kernel mode exception (Blue Screen of Death) is caused by code running in mode.
And it's almost certainly not caused by Microsoft's own kernel code, but by a 3rd party driver that is also running in kernel mode.
The symptoms here suggest that the BSOD is almost certainly caused by a video card driver. I.e. a video mode switch, with 3D application (WPF) running. Your video card's driver wasn't expecting that, and it caused it to execute invalid code.
At the very least, you need to provide the stop error code, e.g.:
Stop: 0x00000050 (PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA)
and the parameters that accompany the error code, e.g. in the case of PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA:
0x8872A990: The memory addressed referenced
0x00000001: 0=Read, 1=Write
0x804F35D7: The address that referenced the memory
0x00000000: (reserved)
for whatever your stop error is, e.g.:
Other than that:
