Huge Blue Screen of Death Issue

**LorDBulA** · 08-17-2008, 12:02

Crashed to a blue screen of death saying 'fatal system error blah blah'

If its an old windows install I recommend system reinstall.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 08-17-2008, 13:26

Also: review the size of folder such as "My Documents", "My Pictures", "My Music" etc. etc. Sum the size of the contents of these folders and post the total.

**Intranetusa** · 08-17-2008, 18:27

Originally Posted by LorDBulA

If its an old windows install I recommend system reinstall.

??

It's windows vista, with EB 1.1

woah, now I'm getting the Black Screen of Death even before startup >_<

**LorDBulA** · 08-17-2008, 21:11

It's windows vista, with EB 1.1

I don't mean windows version but age of current windows installation.
Unless you are using small number of programs and are not checking out new things windows good performance life is quite short.
In my experiance 3 month is a mark after witch you can easily see big hit on windows performance (Although I dont have as much experience with Vista and in general it greatly depends on how gentle did you treat your fragile windows install ).

If you are experiencing lots of trouble full reinstall is the best thing to do.
It will also help you to reveal if problems you are experiencing are of software or hardware nature.

**Intranetusa** · 08-17-2008, 21:41

Apparently it has become a hardware problem now...95% of the time the screen is black on bootup (so I can't even do a restore).
5% of the time it doesn't become black, it freezes and the screen turns purple-green.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 08-17-2008, 22:34

That says, frankly nothing at all. I've seen one XP install get broken beyond repair by someone who had installed a copy of the SIMS 2 to "My Documents". That just killed it; as My Documents, My Pictures, My Videos, My Music, and My Downloads etc. etc. all get indexed at boot up.

Add I have seen Vista break over a Windows update... You haven't by any chance done a Windows update lately?