So I have literally been battling blue screens for weeks now. I have rebuilt my entire computer, ditched that, bought an OEM machine, and the problem still persists. Really the only thing has remained the same through my now 3 Windows reinstalls is the software I'm using. As such, I'm pretty convinced this is a software problem, but because the minidumps aren't pointing to consistent and specific driver .exes, I'm not sure where I should start pruning my software. In the past week it's blue screen 7 times, I've analyzed all of the dumps with Windows Debugger, and they all essentially say the same thing. I can't upload the minidumps because they are each 268kb, and the upload limit is 200kb, so I stitched them all together in Notepadd++ and uploaded the stripped down file instead. Also contained in that file is the everst report and hijack this report.
As per the FAQ in this thread, I read up on the error code on aumha.org/a/stop.htm], but didn't learn much that would be helpful. I also checked out osronline.com/article.cfm?article=335 to learn a little more about the error code, but again, it was a dead end (rather, it became too technical, and I wasn't able to see how determining whether a buffer underrun or overrun could help me fix the problem). What I have noticed is that I have a lot of general system instability. Firefox, photoshop, thunderbird, and chrome crash several times a day seemingly unprovoked. The error messages I get are generally cryptic and don't point to any obvious problem (I may just not be good at troubleshooting specific program crashes though).
I ran Memtest86+ from the bootable iso and it says my memory is A-okay, after more than a hour of testing, I've checked the internal temperature of the system (very well within reasonable limits), it's new so there's no dust in there to speak of, and I've had all of the HDDs tested at a computer shop here in town.
I haven't found a repeatable way to provoke the bluescreens, it seems to be fairly random. I'm always able to reboot without incident.
Yesterday my programs were crashing on load, and some were simply saying that .dlls were missing or corrupt. I restarted and it seems to have (at least temporarily) fixed the problem.
If I can't find a solution, I'll probably just reformat and reinstall XP again because it appears to like my hardware/software setup much better. Just in case it's helpful, here are my system specs:
Intel Core i3 2.93Ghz
4 GB RAM DDR3 1333mhz
64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium
500 GB SataII WD HD
Intel H55 Mobo chipset
ATI Radeon HD4350
This is a clean (and legit) install of Windows 7 on a newly formatted partition, so there shouldn't be any dual booting weirdness.
Any help you could lend would be very much appreciated, as I said, I've been wrestling with this for ages, and it feels like I'm getting nowhere.
-George
As per the FAQ in this thread, I read up on the error code on aumha.org/a/stop.htm], but didn't learn much that would be helpful. I also checked out osronline.com/article.cfm?article=335 to learn a little more about the error code, but again, it was a dead end (rather, it became too technical, and I wasn't able to see how determining whether a buffer underrun or overrun could help me fix the problem). What I have noticed is that I have a lot of general system instability. Firefox, photoshop, thunderbird, and chrome crash several times a day seemingly unprovoked. The error messages I get are generally cryptic and don't point to any obvious problem (I may just not be good at troubleshooting specific program crashes though).
I ran Memtest86+ from the bootable iso and it says my memory is A-okay, after more than a hour of testing, I've checked the internal temperature of the system (very well within reasonable limits), it's new so there's no dust in there to speak of, and I've had all of the HDDs tested at a computer shop here in town.
I haven't found a repeatable way to provoke the bluescreens, it seems to be fairly random. I'm always able to reboot without incident.
Yesterday my programs were crashing on load, and some were simply saying that .dlls were missing or corrupt. I restarted and it seems to have (at least temporarily) fixed the problem.
If I can't find a solution, I'll probably just reformat and reinstall XP again because it appears to like my hardware/software setup much better. Just in case it's helpful, here are my system specs:
Intel Core i3 2.93Ghz
4 GB RAM DDR3 1333mhz
64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium
500 GB SataII WD HD
Intel H55 Mobo chipset
ATI Radeon HD4350
This is a clean (and legit) install of Windows 7 on a newly formatted partition, so there shouldn't be any dual booting weirdness.
Any help you could lend would be very much appreciated, as I said, I've been wrestling with this for ages, and it feels like I'm getting nowhere.
-George