How to fix blue screen of death (BSOD) error?

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2014-04
  • user3249242

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  • user2301394

    First, make sure all of your drivers are up to date (mobo drivers especially). 2nd, go to the manufacturer's website (not Nvidia's website), and download the drivers. I have an ASUS GeForce 210 silent - and the Nvidia's website drivers crash my system almost 100% of the time. Using ASUS's drivers, I have no issues.

    I found this article.

    http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1654597/graphic-card-crashes-causing-bsod.html.

  • Scorpion99

    Install the latest drivers for your graphics card from the manufacturer site.


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  • thegreyspot

    I have just installed Windows 7 32 bit. I keep having a blue screen of death. So times it happens every other week, some times it happens every other day. I have noticed that it occurs during flash videos more often, however I have noticed it occurring during other applications. I was able to run Prime95 for a good hour and a half. I am able to play games (like tf2 or prototype) without any BSODs. WhoCrashed is saying "ntkrnlpa.exe" for most of the BSODs, but some times is a different process. I have updated my bios. I have tested my ram with MEMTest with no errors. Please take a look at my dumps if you can find something else that I am missing. Thank you very much.

    • 9600 nvidia GPU
    • 9600 Phenom x4
    • Gigabyte MA770UD3 Mobo
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    Thanks for you time, any help would be appreciated

    EDIT: I had another BSOD today, this time evolving win32k.sys. I have preformed chkdsk. Please take a look at dump. Thanks!


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  • Erik Funkenbusch

    If this is a new computer, you may simply have some bad memory. Try taking out a stick for a few days (if you have two) and if it still crashes, put the other stick back in and take out the first.

    If this is a computer that worked fine with a previous OS, it still could be a bad component, but less likely. Have you downloaded and installed all the manufacturers drivers, or just used the built-in Windows ones?

    EDIT: I think you may have ignored my post because you mentioned running memtest. Memtest only finds some kinds of errors, so it's not a guarantee your memory is not bad. Also, Memtest can't find errors that are intermittent.

    Heat can be another issue, as well, as flaky power supplies.