Blue Screen of Death - Do mention the error code or something from it if you can spot it before the restart

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What causes blue screen of death? [closed]

What are the causes of a blue screen of death?
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Hard disk controller errors - New SSD

I recently bought an OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD. It's quite fast, but for some reason, the hard drive controller refuses to play nicely with it. I never had issues with my HDD before, and I was using the ...
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Vista 32 Stop Error 0x000000B4: Video Driver Failed to Initialize. Is there hope?

Looking around on th internets, it's looking like the only option I have left is format and reinstall, which is something I'm REALLY trying to avoid. The machine has alot of activated software from a ...
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RAID0 Blue Screen (iaStorV?)

I have an SSD and two other HDDs installed in my system. The SSD is running W7. I recently purchased 2 256 GB SSDs that I want to use in a RAID0 configuration. Since hooking them up and setting my ...
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Computer tends to BSOD crash (in any browser) when using Flash based apps?

About a month ago my computer started experiencing crashes, at first it was just every once in a while, then it escalated to around 5 times a day. Typically it crashes when I access flash-based games ...
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BSOD in window 7:BAD_POOL_HEADER error [closed]

A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. BAD_POOL_HEADER If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. ...
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Suspected Corrupted Windows 7 MBR?

So, this may not be the correct place to put up my question, but i'll give it a shot. I'm having an issue repairing this computer. It was brought to me with the described issue of 'Not turning on' ...
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Laptop overheats, BSOD, turns off when playing games

Recently, my year-old laptop began BSODing, turning off unexpectedly and heating up very fast when playing games. This is regardless of the integrated graphics or the add-on NVidia graphics used. My ...
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Very random BSODs and BIOS hangs

I get BSODs after the computer runs for anywhere from a minute to a couple of hours. I have had the problem for some days now, and it has become progressively worse. Sometimes, it hangs on the boot ...
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Installed second hard drive in computer and get BSOD with stop 0x00007b

I have a computer with a Intel DH55HC MB. It has eSata on the MB ports that work with SATA drives. Anyway I installed a second 1tb drive and reset the boot order. Windows starts and gets a BSOD with ...
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Time randomly changing itself, internet randomly dying

I installed Windows 8 RTM a few weeks ago. It's not my first time installing it, but it's the first time having these annoying problems: Randomly, the system clock changes time all by itself - to ...
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BAD_POOL_HEADER driving me crazy

basically 90% of the time when I usually log in.. within 10 seconds I get this blue screen and it's driving me nuts.. as far as I know it's some sort of driver problem.. I did system restore to get ...
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When I start my Dell Latitude E4300, I get an “Intel® Matrix Storage Manager option ROM” message after the Dell logo, then a BSOD as Windows XP starts

The computer is a Dell Latitude E4300 with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 500 GB hard drive. I used an automatic driver installer CD to install any drivers not installed on the system. When I ...
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Install windows on virtual machine using raw hard disk access

I have followed answer from Linus from this question. I successfully install OS, but when I boot win I always get BSOD. There's note about creating a second hardware profile in Windows. I did, but it ...
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Windows Defender Update KB915597 (Definition 1.135.415.0) > BSOD > Computer No Longer Starts [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: A Windows Update Prevented Live Discs From Working? First off I'll state my system specs. Acer Aspire M1100 Windows Vista Home Basic 32bit OEM 2 Gigs of DDR2 ram ...
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BSOD when playing Portal 2 using ATI Radeon 4800 on H61M/U3S3 mobo

playing Portal 2 will always give me blue screen of death, usually after about 10 minutes of playing. BSOD references atikmpag.sys. I have tried several updates for graphics driver and through ATI ...
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System shutdown after page fault in non-paged area

I shut down my system after a blue screen error of a page fault in non-paged area. Now I can't turn it back on. The lights are blinking, HDD is working, CD ROM is working, and all of the fans are ...
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Windows XP fails to start, and, while trying to reinstall it, installation says “hard drive is corrupt”, but I don't think it is

A few weeks ago my Windows XP installation began showing the 'blue screen of death' during normal use, then restarting. That went on until it failed to start completely, even in safe mode. I thought ...
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Windows removes its own drive from bios, but appears in Linux

I'm having a strange problem. Some background: I have two sata drives in this computer. The first one has a boot partition and two NTFS partitions (one Windows 7, one storage). The second drive has ...
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BSOD 0xA0 on Windows XP

I have some problems with a bluescreen on a Windows XP SP3. The Bugcheck code is 0x000000A0 and the first parameter 0x00000101 states that there is a Unhandled exception occured while processing ...
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BSOD and first screen is freeze after reboot [closed]

Today my friend told me that he can't start his PC, he also told that after several minutes of work BSOD is appear. After that I try to start his pc and like my friend said "he worked for several ...
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storport.sys BSOD headaches

I keep getting intermittent BSODs with storport.sys. I got the following from bluescreen viewer: 081712-31917-01.dmp 8/17/2012 9:09:03 AM DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL 0x000000d1 ...
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Win 7 BSOD ( STOP: 0x0000008b ) after changing hard disks

I have two computers, an old one (with Windows 7) and the new one (With Linux). I normally use the old one for playing and the new one for work only. But I wanted to try a game that wouldn't work on ...
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Blue Screen with no crash dump generated (0xF4)

I'm getting frequent Blue Screens (every hour or two), with a STOP 0xF4 code. The really fun thing about these is that no crash dump is ever generated. As shown in the screen shot below, it says ...
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Windows 8 freezes all the time

I'm running Windows 8 Release Preview on the following system: AMD FX-8150 16 GB 1800 RAM ATI HD5850 I experience BSOD's and freezes of the whole system all the time with random frequencies. ...
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Windows 7 BSOD and missing SATA drives at reboot

I get random BSOD, then when my computer reboots my SATA drives are gone and it gets stuck at "verifying DMI pool data". By rebooting they sometimes re-appear. Before this my computer has been ...
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Wifi Network Adapter not detected by Windows after BSOD

I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on a Dell Inspiron Laptop. I also have Ubuntu 11.10 as a dual boot option on this machine. Recently I got a BSOD with the following error - DRIVER POWER STATE FAILURE ...
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Running Virtual Box Machine causes Blue Screen of Death on Host Windows 7 PC

I have a virtual box that has now twice caused a BSOD on my host operating system windows 7. The first time I was running VirtualPC so thought the two Virtual Systems together might have caused the ...
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Analysing memory dump after BSOD - 0xC0000147

My computer (HP DV6 6060EP) was returned to repair by HP twice, but it still comes with the same problem. I'm trying the best i can to help them diagnose this problem. When my computer crashes (like ...
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BSOD after installing Paragon HFS+ on Windows 7 x64

I just installed Paragon HFS+ for Windows 9.0 on my laptop (a Dell Vostro 3500 with Windows 7 x64). I previously had a cracked version and now I have bought the full version. The cracked version ...
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SSD Fault causing BSOD

I built a computer for a friend with an OCZ petrol SSD. It seems to be having some problems now. Once or twice a day, it gets an error that looks like it's pointing to a disk sector and then blue ...
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BSOD issue on Abit IP 35 Pro

I have a custom built PC with the following specs - Abit IP35 Pro 4GB Nvidia SLI DDR2 RA Nvidia 9800 GTX PCI-E Graphics Card 1 x Asus DVD drive 4 x 500GB hard drives configured in RAID 5 1 x 1TB ...
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BSODs while unattended and MBR issues

This is a slightly long preface: I just bought an OCZ 120gb Agility 3 SSD for my Dell XPS 15 (L501X). Installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Professional, had no issues for about a day or 2. After ...
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Windows 7 Recurring Blue Screens: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT 0x1A

I have recurring BSODs that really have me scratching my head. Here's a look at the errors: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT 0x1A (ntoskrnl.exe) - I've seen this 9 times since April 2012 NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM 0x24 ...
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Installing 3TB SATA Hard Drive Messed Up My Computer

I just added a 3TB SATA hard drive to my Windows 7 x64 machine. After formatting it, it seemed to work for a couple of hours until I got a BSOD. 10 minutes later, another BSOD, this one saying memory ...
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BSOD in USB-Wifi Driver - rtwlanu.sys - System Thread Exception not Handled

The driver is from an USB-Wifi. I've been getting a BSOD in Windows 8 saying "System Thread Exception not Handled". So i've read this ...
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What can cause a BSOD when booting from CD, but not from Hard Disk?

We have a Windows XP machine that recently had a bad virus cleaned up off of it. It boots up just fine, however I suspect some windows files have been damaged and want to run a Repair from the ...
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Blue screen of Death on Install

I have a machine with Windows Vista Installed. It has an Intel X25 SSD as the System Drive I want to reinstall (I plan to format and overwrite Vista) with XP. When I boot up using the Dell XP CD it ...
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Skype causes blue screen of death

I don't know why but I have experienced 3 times already that when I launch skype for Windows I get a BSOD. Has somebody experienced this before? What solutions can you suggest? If you need more ...
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Windows 7 BSOD, safe mode working,

I need help getting my dualboot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 to work, and since I'm not to experienced with computers I've been pretty dumb. Here's what I've done, quite shortend though: First ...
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Page Fault in a Non-Paged Area - Now RAM is missing

There are plenty of Posts on here about the "Page Fault in a Non Paged Area" BSOD. My computer rebooted from the error with 8GB of RAM missing! (only 24 showing in the POST rather than 32). Is it a ...
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Weirdness after Windows operating system reinstall

I have reinstalled my OS succesfully. I have turned off and restarted a few times and it was fine. A few hours later, when I turned it on, there was an error on the screen: Windows could not start ...
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Interference When Installing Windows XP

I had several problems on my old pc, so I decided to reinstall Windows XP. The problem is, when it copies the files, I get a lot of errors with Windows XP setup cannot copy file, so I ignore all of ...
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Left-click + Drag sometimes crashes Windows 7 with Bug Check Code 0x0000124

This problem has been going for a while (ever since I installed Windows 7 on this PC): Every once in a while (randomly, with any application), when I use the mouse to left-click & drag (move ...
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Windows 7 shows Blue Screen with “STOP ntoskrnl 0x000001e” when accessing My Documents

I have a Windows 7 PC that can boot, work normally and hibernate/restart all well, except whenever I open a file explorer and CLICK on "My Documents" , "Pictures", "Music" or "Videos" I get a BSOD: ...
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Hardware issue, bsod with windows xp irq and strange messages with ubuntu

I have an old Acer T160 and it used to run Windows XP. But I keep getting random BSOD's. I keep seeing IRQ conflicts. I tried to run ubuntu, which runs and keeps running. But sometimes is not ...
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Nvidia GeForce Graphics Card Blue Screen of Death crash

For the last couple of months, I get sudden crashes while watching a video. It usually happens when I am skipping parts in a video - then my PC gets stuck, and after few seconds I get this popup ...
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Lost all data on Windows XP after blue screen

I got a blue screen and was trying to boot with my OS disk. Frankly, I was unsure exactly how to do this. I was trying everything and booted in partition mode. Finally, I booted with disk and ran ...
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How to set CHKDSK for drive C: in Windows 7

I recently got a 0xc000007b error whenever I tried to run some application software. I found that CHKDSK for C drive might be a solution. When I tried to do it from C drive properties, it said the ...
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Different BSOD messages every time I turn on the computer

Every time I turn on my computer I receive a different BSOD. I can't even give info about my computer because I haven't been able to stay on it long enough. The following are the BSOD messages that ...

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