Re: BSOD crashes caused by unknown driver
- From: "Steve N." <Steve_N@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:43:59 -0700
Rivan Guard wrote:
hi folks,
I've been getting intermittent blue screen crashes in win xp pro+SP2 on my laptop. MS online crash analysis has been telling me the crashes are caused by a device driver but doesnt specify which one. The STOP codes vary but are most commonly 0A, 50, & D1. Ther doesnt seem to be any particular conditions, actions or circumstances linking these crashes.
To try an isolate the culprit, I decided to reinstall xp and then add each third party driver one at time to see which one is causing the crash. To my utter joy I started getting crashes almost immediately even though I'm only using the standard drivers that xp installed and havent installed any non MS drivers yet.
Can anyone tell me of a debugging process that an enthusiastic amateur can use to find this bad driver cos its getting to the point where my laptop is unusable.
thanks for any help anyone can give
Unfortunately by the very nature of how WinXP deals with hardware it is sometimes impossible to determine whether such stop errors are causd by hardware or drivers. First thing, I would test the RAM using Memtest96 from www.mwmtest86.com and with Windows Memory Diagnostic from http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp qand let each run for several passes. If either report errors replace your RAM.
If your laptop came with any diagnostic utilities I would run them as well.
Steve .
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