Classic bsod case

Have you tried updating your video card drivers?

1. Download Driver Cleaner Pro or Driver Sweeper (both have free versions) to your desktop screen and install.

2. Download the latest driver(s) for your video card but don't install them.

3. Uninstall your video card drivers and reboot your PC into Safe Mode. Run Driver Cleaner Pro or Driver Sweeper. If it doesn't find any video card drivers that is quite okay.

4. Reboot and install new video card drivers.

Yep we did that like a couple of posts before, remember?

I did that before with no help at all. However I'm still willing to give it another shot at this rate...

I forgot! Are you still getting BSODs or any artifacting like before?

nothing so far, but it likes to wait a day or so before it randomly bluescreens on me. So it's still a case of we'll see...

Edit:

I did as you asked, but for some reason catalyst control isn't allowing me to open it up. It's not showing up on my task bar even after restarting several times and when i search in program files it's not there. I tried reinstalling it like 3 times and it still isn't showing up.

Edit2:

4th times a charm, now the catalyst manager is showing up. I'll let you know if any BS stops occur

Here's an example of the artifacts that happen when I'm using msn messenger. I'm not sure if it's just msn being wonky or if it's an issue with my graphic's card.

I blurred the conversation in photoshop for privacy

Sorry, jacket, I can't tell where the artifacting is taking place. Have you tried a different messenger service to see if you still get the issues? Are you experiencing this problem doing anything else? Are your Microsoft updates, well, updated?

Also, it has been 2 days now. Any BSODs?

basically the entire message box. The window is minimized and that remained up. At the side and the top you can see the icons from the desktop through the messenger program and the side is cut off because of stuff beneath it.

MSN was the only messenger that i experienced this with but I wasn't sure if it was just a weird glitch with the program or my graphic's card.

No BSOD yet after 2 days. I even left my computer on to see if it'd bluescreen over night (it has done that before)

I only have vista atm updated with service pack 1 and 2 due to the fact one of the times we were dealing with the bluescreens it was suggested that it was an incompatibility between a few of the updates and my graphics card.

Another bluescreen last night. The same Stop error 'not less or equal'. The computer was just sitting alone by itself really when it crashed. It didn't have any program going except background programs and maybe firefox.

Another 0xA error and another Vista driver which isn't much help. Many people have issues with Sleep or Hibernation mode in Vista. Was the PC transitioning between any of these modes?

Not that I know of. It happened while I left the computer on overnight. It had entered hibernation mode at some point. So perhaps going into sleep/hibernation mode. I can attempt to put the computer into sleep mode to see if it induces a BSOD.

as you may of noticed, the bluescreens are happening less frequently but still at random. I'm still not sure what is the cause.

I put it to sleep and woke it over and over about 10 times with no BSOD

Another bluescreen, this one happened while I was watching a video with firefox. It just bluescreened in the middle of the video and the audio continuously went in and out as it did. I did have photoshop open when it crashed but I know i wasn't stressing the system any. (sadly lost the picture I was working on in the crash)

Here's the dump.

Another bluescreen when I plugged in a usb flashdrive into my computer. I've been slowly trying to learn how to read the minidumps myself so I downloaded the windows debugger and also loaded the symbols. It stated it was a win32k.sys file that caused the crash this time. I"ll upload the minidump anywho if i misread it.

The first error was 0xA and, sigh, it specifically said memory corruption.

The second only listed a Vista driver and the error is 0x0000001A: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT

This memory management error is usually hardware related.

So you think that the ram is corrupt even though it keeps passing memtests? or if it's something to do with the motherboard? or perhaps my core is clocked incorrectly *hasn't touched anything with that*

Another blue screen. This time it faults a vista driver again, particularly sbp2port.sys which if I understand it correctly is a fire wire connection. It happened when I attempted to open my external hard drive and then it was acting really slow and wouldn't load the folders. Then when i closed down and asked the comp to restart (I figured something wasn't right) it blue screened.

0x9F - "A driver is causing an inconsistant power state." The problem is it only lists disk.sys as the cause and this is a OS driver. When your BSODs occured was your external harddrive always attached when these occured?

By the way, you don't need to zip single minidumps. You can attach as is if you just have one or two.

Oh, okay. I just started zipping them after you asked for it the first time. I totally didn't realize.

My external was attached when the latest ones occured. I recently switched it from a usb connection (because I needed the usb adapter for my scanner) to a fire wire connection. I usually don't unplug it just turn the power off to the external when I'm done using it.

Well... My computer just blew up. The computer went black without a shut down and then all of a sudden the power supply started sending out sparks and the smell of burnt plastic and smoke.

I turned off the power and unplugged the power cord of the computer.

I don't know if this was the reason around the BSOD or if it was just a different issue that my computer had.

Just a small update on what happened. I'm currently using my old computer (thank god for a backup)

Though the computer decided to blow up in the middle (literally) of my finals week

I am really sorry to hear this especially in that it took place during finals week. It sounds to me like your power supply was faulty to say the least though there was nothing to indicate it. However, if it was defective it could explain a lot because if it wasn't putting out the power your system needed and thus other hardware was failing to do what it is designed to do. What was its make?

Also, check your motherboard. Are there any bulging caps on your capacitors?

Where will you go from here? Will you be building a new one? If so there are a number of people here that can help you in making good solid choices for parts.

Thanks jacket for the update as painful as it is. Let us know what you plan on doing.