In reference to my mom's computer- whih is a Dell Studio 1535... REFURBISHED. Mistake #1, I know.
Running Vista 64 bit and no seriously intensive programs except for Quickbooks (recipe for disaster).
No particular pattern to the cause of problems. Seems pretty random.
First BSOD problems I had seemed to be in reference to a driver associated with the webcam. I changed out the drivers and it seemed to calm the laptop down.
Also, the minidumps are hard to extract info out of: "probably caused by"
11-05 memory_corruption
11-01 ntoskrnl.exe
10-19 ntfs.sys
of the previous files, notskrnl.exe is definitely the one that shows up most. from what i understand, this is related to usage of the dual processing. One question i have is that if i am going to give this a college-try and reinstall an o/s, should i give it a whirl with 32 bit version of windows 7? I'm running out of ideas.
I was kindof banking on a memory problem... I started with the windows memory test, then moved to memtest 86+. I think that the new version v4.00, which I got ahold of today, works very well with the Dell. For some reason, I downloaded an earlier version a couple of weeks ago and it didn't run at all-- so I was thinking that it had to be memory sticks.
So far I've run the test without keeping an eye on it. I believe that the program will not simply reboot without giving a heads up on a problem. I am currently running memtest again with no errors. Am i supposed to run this 7 FULL times before I conclude that there are good sticks in here?
I'm attaching the last 6 minidump files. I don't know if i'm using windbg properly. Apparently you cant attach dmp over 200kb and all of mine are 264kb... so they're text files... and I don't know if the symbols are all there, the way they should be... I thought I knew my stuff but hey--- i'm knee deep in this stuff and I'm second guessing myself. Any advice or help is appreciated. (Oh and i did all of the steps asked of me before posting this, except for running memtest 86+ 7 times becasue I didn't get it to work until the middle of writing this post.
Thanks in advance for anything/everything!
edit: minidump files are hosted on rapidshare... i need 5 post counts to post links!!
ht tp://rapidshare.com/files/303834866/Mom_s_Vostro_Minidump.rar.html
Running Vista 64 bit and no seriously intensive programs except for Quickbooks (recipe for disaster).
No particular pattern to the cause of problems. Seems pretty random.
First BSOD problems I had seemed to be in reference to a driver associated with the webcam. I changed out the drivers and it seemed to calm the laptop down.
Also, the minidumps are hard to extract info out of: "probably caused by"
11-05 memory_corruption
11-01 ntoskrnl.exe
10-19 ntfs.sys
of the previous files, notskrnl.exe is definitely the one that shows up most. from what i understand, this is related to usage of the dual processing. One question i have is that if i am going to give this a college-try and reinstall an o/s, should i give it a whirl with 32 bit version of windows 7? I'm running out of ideas.
I was kindof banking on a memory problem... I started with the windows memory test, then moved to memtest 86+. I think that the new version v4.00, which I got ahold of today, works very well with the Dell. For some reason, I downloaded an earlier version a couple of weeks ago and it didn't run at all-- so I was thinking that it had to be memory sticks.
So far I've run the test without keeping an eye on it. I believe that the program will not simply reboot without giving a heads up on a problem. I am currently running memtest again with no errors. Am i supposed to run this 7 FULL times before I conclude that there are good sticks in here?
I'm attaching the last 6 minidump files. I don't know if i'm using windbg properly. Apparently you cant attach dmp over 200kb and all of mine are 264kb... so they're text files... and I don't know if the symbols are all there, the way they should be... I thought I knew my stuff but hey--- i'm knee deep in this stuff and I'm second guessing myself. Any advice or help is appreciated. (Oh and i did all of the steps asked of me before posting this, except for running memtest 86+ 7 times becasue I didn't get it to work until the middle of writing this post.
Thanks in advance for anything/everything!
edit: minidump files are hosted on rapidshare... i need 5 post counts to post links!!
ht tp://rapidshare.com/files/303834866/Mom_s_Vostro_Minidump.rar.html