[pecpecjuice]

hey all...i was wondering if anyone here knew how come your PC would sometimes just crash and go to the blue screen with all these numbers and letters and such...i was wondering if there is a way to prevent this or fix this problem...it happened to me quite a few times just in one day...after i have just rebooted my PC...hopefully someone can help out

Thanks

PecPecjuice aka illness99 on YouTube.com

[Adionik]

Check your overclock. I BSOD'd a couple times when my OC was too high.

[pecpecjuice]

Check your overclock. I BSOD'd a couple times when my OC was too high.

sorry i don't understand what 'overclock' is...what is that and how do i fix it..thanks for your reply by the way...

[awdark]

Eh, I doubt he is overclocking.

Driver conflicts, hardware conflicts/failure (personal favorite), and part of hardware failure is ram.

Depending on what the blue screen says, you can often determine the cause. If its like Pagefault error, its time to bust out Memtest86 to test out the ram.
If its like STOP then its other hardware or drivers. (usually)

[jahmez]

Or it could also always be your compuer getting too hot. Just recently, my old AMD computer went to the screen of death. It thought maybe it was software or hardward problems, but when I touched my heat sink I almost burned myself, it was that hot. So I rigged another fan on the heatsink and now it runs perfectly.

[xl0lxl0lx]

half the time it's windows firewall.

[dabrain]

nope ... highly improbable ...
bluescreen are mainly caused by hardware errors or very bugged drivers ... blue screens hint at a serious conflict (like division by 0 etc)

[Tepper]

ya from my experience more than half the time that I would get repeating BSoD's it was from faulty ram... damn... samsung. or something. Othertimes, indeed bad driver conflicts and the such.

[dabrain]

samsung and bad ram??
3rd party i guess

[soymilk]

i know what you're talking about. i happens to me on my old compaq laptop a lot while using photoshop or using a program that uses too much memory or ram. and i think that's the fault. i dont know how to prevent this from happening either..

[pecpecjuice]

Thanks for all the responds guys...i appreciate it....it gave me a lot of ideas on what to look for and such and trying to fix this mess myself instead of going to Best Buys or some computer store where they charger you alot of money plus they will have to keep your PC for like 2-3 days...which sucks ass...

[Adionik]

samsung and bad ram??
3rd party i guess

3rd party? There's not a whole lot of RAM manufacturers around. There's only a couple...name brand are just slapped on there.

I too have had problems with RAM. A fresh install of XP can usually fix BSOD's. If you're still having problems, check display, audio and maybe anything else recently installed.

THEN check your hardware.

[dabrain]

3rd party? There's not a whole lot of RAM manufacturers around. There's only a couple...name brand are just slapped on there.

I too have had problems with RAM. A fresh install of XP can usually fix BSOD's. If you're still having problems, check display, audio and maybe anything else recently installed.

THEN check your hardware.

there are a couple of ram manufacturers ..... samsung, infineon, geil, kingston, ocz, etc. etc ....
but often infineon and samsung chips are used by 3rd party manufacturers ...