Blue screen of death

[redvette]

Hi gang

When ever I go to reboot due to installing a program or what ever it comes back with this screen. A pretty bright blue one..:-)

And it says briefly...A problem has been detected and windows had to shut down, check your video adapter.

Check with your Hardware vendor for any Bios updates. Disable memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use safe mode to resolve or disable components, restart your computer. press F8 to select advanced startup options, and then select safe mode.

Tech info Stop 0x0000007e (0xc0000005, oxf6ac875e oxf7b6abe4, 0xf7b6a80e

I have been able to reboot it again and use, last known good start up or, use start windows normally.

I don't know how many times this is going to work this way, but it seems this is happening more and more often.

What should I be looking for, cause it don't really give you any really definite problem that I can see. Normally the computer shows no bad signs out side of this screen. I keep it clean and defragged reg. Its a Asus P4P800-VM MOBO, about 4 years old, up to date HD's, with plenty of space left, etc.

Is this just one of those strange screens that comes up, or should I be concerned about it.

Thanx and take care........Gunny

[glc]

Are you using the onboard video or a video card?

Either way, download the latest drivers and update yours.

[shadowpr]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330182/en-us

I would probably reinstall my video drivers first.

[redvette]

Hi both of you

Yes it is a video card. I fairly good one, about 4 years old too. Maybe it is going south on me I have noticed every once in a while some things hand up like half of it wiil stay and half go away making me thing the video card might be going south. Its a Nvidia G force 6600Gt 128MB. And at times I get this box on startup from the Nvidia saying to make sure the card is getter correct power, I click ok and it goes away. This just occurs about once or twice a month. I will look for any updates to it, but being it is as old as it is I doubt I will find any. And try just reinstalling the drivers again.

Thanx.........Gunny

[redvette]

Hi gang

My mistake that is a WinFast A6600GT card. When I click on the little icon on the bottom it brings up the card as a Nividia 6600 Gt, but that is a Express card, I thought. Mine is a AGP card.

Thanx.......Gunny

[glc]

The generic Nvidia drivers will work fine.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_169.21_whql.html

[redvette]

Hi gang

Well I did as you said, (downloading all the latest drivers for the card), and I thought it was fixed, until I changed a couple of things that required restarting it and guess what, up came the blue screen, same one. I have started it with complete shut downs, not reboots and they do ok it just seems to be the reboots that brings the blue screen up. What the difference is there I am not sure of.

Just a sneaky suspicion could this have any thing to do with IE7.? Reason for saying this is we all know IE7 has had and still has issues, and the # 7 appears in the writing with the blue screen, several times. Might just be coincidental.

Thanx and take care........Gunny