I have tried this and all is OK according to it. Thanks though.try ccleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ its free and should see if you have any bad registry entries or other such stuff.
The blue screen happens whatever I'm doing, usually this time of day, I've been online since about 10am, that's normal. It actually happened since my first, and this post.Few questions for you.
How and when does the blue screen occur, is it only applicable to one application.
Have you installed new hardware
Have you overclocked your cpu/gpu
Have you installed new software, video encoding etc and on this software have you set the priority to High or something like that.
Have you checked your temperatures and monitored them during activities to ensure no overtemping is occuring.
Are your fans working correctly.
Do you mean to use the recovery disc I made when the machine was new?Thats one of the tell tale signs of an MS operating system being installed on the computer
I'd run the normal stuff, virus scan, scan disk, defrag, check for start up programs and if all fails back up and clean install. Also if you're still on the same install that came with the machine, in my experiance they tend to be pumped full of rubbish which doesnt help. I got bluescreens within a week of getting my laptop, put up with it for a bit and then they got worse, reinstalled and still havent had any a few months on![]()
I think I should have said,You need to check exactly what the blue screen error is reporting, it usually tells you what file caused the crash. Check what file it reports, if it's a driver of some kind then you could upgrade to a newer version of the driver, or even rollback to an older version, and see if this fixes it.
I had a HP laptop once and the recovery discs that were supplied with it completely wipe your hard drive and do a fresh install as if it was a new laptop that you switched on for the first time.I didn't have any disc supplied, the only ones I have is what I made myself, which are recovery discs. Yes, it is Vista I'm running.
If your files can be moved over to the 300gb one that you have you can try a recovery to see if that works.There is a 600gb hard drive in it, I also have a 300gb external unused. I have just contacted HP regarding the problem, as it's still under warranty.
Before switching to a Mac Mini Media Centre (which saved my sanity) I had an MCE 2005 HTPC which used to crash when my EPG updated.
As you said it happens at the same time everyday maybe it could be this or some other automated update?
Thanks for help guys, but as I said in post #18, I have done a system restore and all is well now, so far that isHi,
If you go to c:\windows\minidump there should be some "crash dump" files, if you have them and you want to send me them i will be able to take a look and hopefully tell you what you are getting a bluescreen becasue of.
Basically the "crash dump" files a files which store the data which you see when you get the blue screen and also make it possible to debug them and read the cause of the bluescreen. If you do not have and .dmp files in the directory or even have the directory it means that your computer does not have the option ticked, if this is the case let me know and i will tell you how to enable this option.
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