Random BSODs

I put it in that order and here i am again. went str8 to windows. mind you, each time i do this i feel the CD drive run for a while and the light comes on but then it js shows me the window loading page. and i've actually used the CD drive for other things so im sure it works.

Let's hold off of memtest for the moment. I for the life of me can't understand why it doesn't kick in.

Questions and suggestions:

1. Are you still getting BSODs and if so are you doing anything specific when it happens?

2. I suggested earlier that you disable/uninstall ZA. Have you tried it yet to see if your system stabilizes?


3. Uninstall and reinstall your wireless drivers.

P.S. It is in the wee hours of the morning. I need to go to sleep. Try the suggestions I gave you because drivers are cited as the cause of your crashes.

1. not since the last time when it was in sleep mode.

2. it's the only antivirus i have right now so i haven't yet. im trying to get AVG to replace it.

3. i'll go do that now.

i've uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers and nw im gonna try to get AVG. thank u for all the help man. i dunno what i'd be doin without it.

I finally got the memtest to work. Its running now while i use the desktop. still looking for AVG.

How did you get memtest to work? I am really curious!

Well I followed what you and the site told me at first, burn the ISO to the CD and just place the CD/DVD drive as the first to boot. When that didn't work, I retried with Roxio and chose the make bootable CD this time. I thought I could just make a bootable CD with the ISO. But no, what i needed to do was mount the ISO and copy the IMG file from the Boot folder in the memtest ISO itself to my hard drive then make the bootable CD with that IMG file. It worked for me after that. Maybe its only for my machine cuz i found nwhere else on the net that told me to do that.

btw i see where i should be looking for the errors if any. but um im not sure about where i see the diff tests and the passes and such. or is that not all that important?

There will be a Designation for Error and to the right of that will be Pass. At the top you will see the individual tests. These the only two you need to concern yourself with.

As for burning the CD I know a few others who had to do what you did but mostly once you unzip and then click on the ISO file it burns from there.

O okay then. Well it's been running for an hour and 43 minutes. How long does it usualli take? I have no problem leaving it to run all day if it'll help.

7 Passes ought to do it but there are people who let it run all night and check it the next day when they get up.

Hey. So i left the memtest running since yesterday evening and I let it run all day. It's been running for 28 hours now. And i have 8 tests and 0 errors. is that good enough? and i also saw another post where some1 had 14 passes in much less time lie 8 hrs. could that difference be due to the different amount of memory we have?
Im talking about this thread
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic124020.html

Yes and yes to your questions. Your RAM seems fine and the more memory the longer it takes.

ah okay then. Since my RAM is fine then are there any other reasons i may have seen those BSODs? Im goin to try to format my HD and reinstall Vista from another source.

I am wondering if your NIC card is bad...

that would cause the problems?
well it's a RaLink card and it's pretty much horrible. Im like right beside my router right noow and thats pretty much the only time i get good wireless. =\

That sounds like a very poor, almost dead, NIC card. Keep in mind one of your minidumps cited a driver to your wireless LAN card. I can't remember if you went to your laptop manufacturer's website, found your particular model, and updated the most recent drivers for your laptop. If you haven't, try it.

And, again, there is something wrong if you can only get a good signal right next to your router. perhaps it was configured wrong or, again, just plain bad.

Well I realise that my siblings' laptops get good wireless whereever they are in the house. While when Im upstairs my net is very bad and drops randomly. That seems to be an issue with my model laptop as i saw it in newegg's customer reviews section. So im nt the only one who has that problem. RaLink, i had never heard of them b4 i got this laptop.

i got the RT260 driver from the RaLink website itself. and those are the latest.

Yeah, I never heard of them before either. Is there any way to get a replacement NIC? If the NIC card is bad no amount of new drivers will help it. If I remember correctly this is basically new system and should be under warrenty.

Yes it is new. I've been unable to contact them by phone. And MSI's online customer service is almost nonexistent.