Kadzait Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Ok, so I installed Windows Vista Home Basic on to a brand spankin new Hard Drive, so this isn't an upgrade issue. I've had my RAM checked, and there is nothing wrong with it. So I can't quite figure this one out (sorry about the large sized image, not able to use Photoshop to fix it yet because of some administrative error. Will turning off UAC fix this?): Sice install, it has crashed 15 times. What happens is, it locks up, but I am still able to move the mouse. I can't click anything. Can't Alt+Tab. Can't Ctrl+Alt+Del. And after a while it gives me the big blue screen of death. It flushes all the memory to the HD and then restarts. Now, this generally happens when I am playing on Steam (CS: Zero), but sometimes it happens when running other programs. I've checked the video card, and it's fine, and made sure it can handle anything I put it through. It goes through this process pretty fast so I dont usually have time to copy down what the error is exactly. But it has something to do with the KERNEL, and I don't know where to find the Crashdump logs (if there are any -_-) Help? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdverseDeviant Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 my vista x64 crashes once a day at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadzait Posted February 12, 2007 Author Share Posted February 12, 2007 Hm, perhaps it would help if I posted my specs? :p Windows: Windows Vista Home Basic (x32 Bit) Memory (RAM): 1791 MB (1991 MB total, 200 MB witheld for system purposes) CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ Display Adapters: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 nForce 430 (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) | RDPDD Chained DD | RDP Encoder Mirror Driver Screen Resolution: 1440 X 900 - 32 bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas-c Veteran Posted February 12, 2007 Veteran Share Posted February 12, 2007 it could be a driver? update all your drivers and see if it does it then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notuptome2004 Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 maby Home basic is to limited to not allow you to run certian Apps and stuff who knows just a guess so it may crash never ran Home basic and for me i wouldant run it as it is the 2nd to lowest end version next to starter edition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdverseDeviant Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 it could be a driver? update all your drivers and see if it does it then yeah it could be. i like to blame my creative driver for my bsods btw your sig is waayy too big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas-c Veteran Posted February 12, 2007 Veteran Share Posted February 12, 2007 could be any driver, and my sig is mostly text :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XerXis Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 i thought home basic didn't have aero? looks like the aero theme to me. Anyway, probably video card driver issue, what's your driver version? ow, run photoshop like administrator and if needed in xp sp2 mode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micro Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 i thought home basic didn't have aero? looks like the aero theme to me. Anyway, probably video card driver issue, what's your driver version? ow, run photoshop like administrator and if needed in xp sp2 mode home basic has aero, just not transparent.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty13 Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 it could be a driver? update all your drivers and see if it does it then That's what i was going to say, Drivers, i got this problem when i didnt install drivers for certain things on XP, so it could be this for Vista too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hambones Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I have the same problem, mine blue screens twice a day at least. I have a Asus mobo with Nforce4 chipset and a AMD X2 3800 CPU and 1.5 GB RAM. I even tried the new chipset drivers Nvidia released last week. Mine will sort of freeze up except I can move the mouse around, then it will gradually blue screen. I am dual booting XP and it has never done this, so it can't be the hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdverseDeviant Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 well since most bsods are from drivers and most drivers are beta or jsut out of beta i would say its you guessed it drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RightfulSpire Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 yea my home premium locks up once a day at least when being used hard. def. drivers. as annoying as it is its the price to pay when getting a windows OS before it's been out for at least 6 months to a year. but i never run linux or a mac i am die hard windows user so i will stick with it and wait. running a new windows is like watching a child grow up i beta tested, thats like pregnancy then when its released sorta like birth. then watch it grow and mature into a well established OS. ok that was lame...... :blush: :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Schieldrop Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Have you made a bootable ISO of memtest and let it run 2-10 full passes with no errors? Google memtest, download, burn the iso, boot it and let it go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innuendo Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 It'd probably help if you told us what the details of the error messages were rather than just showing a screenshot of them all highlighted. As it stands now we have to play the guessing game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToneKnee Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Format, reinstall, and see if the problem persists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadzait Posted February 12, 2007 Author Share Posted February 12, 2007 it could be a driver? update all your drivers and see if it does it then I've updated all my drives. Even tried uninstalling and reinstalling them. Didn't fix the problem. yea my home premium locks up once a day at least when being used hard. def. drivers. as annoying as it is its the price to pay when getting a windows OS before it's been out for at least 6 months to a year.but i never run linux or a mac i am die hard windows user so i will stick with it and wait. running a new windows is like watching a child grow up i beta tested, thats like pregnancy then when its released sorta like birth. then watch it grow and mature into a well established OS. ok that was lame...... :blush: :whistle: Kinda lame, but so true as far as Windows goes *remembers Windows ME*Have you made a bootable ISO of memtest and let it run 2-10 full passes with no errors?Google memtest, download, burn the iso, boot it and let it go. I've done that.No errors with the Memory. Format, reinstall, and see if the problem persists. I'll try this. i thought home basic didn't have aero? looks like the aero theme to me. Anyway, probably video card driver issue, what's your driver version? ow, run photoshop like administrator and if needed in xp sp2 mode Nah, I found another way around it. I just took ownership over all the PS-related files, so that's already fixed.It'd probably help if you told us what the details of the error messages were rather than just showing a screenshot of them all highlighted. As it stands now we have to play the guessing game.Event viewer doesn't give the details. It just says that Windows shutdown unexpectedly, and I don't know where to find the crashdump files, because Windows seems to have hidden them away somewhere. When it gives the bluw screen (of death), it goes through pretty quickly, and I don't have photogenic memory -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 could be any driver, and my sig is mostly text :p It doesn't matter. 170 x 550 is the max your sig can be, text or no text Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notuptome2004 Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 to the thread starter i am not sure if it is in home Basic but windows vista hasa rather advanced error tool that shows you a chart of when you or well windows had an issues with somthing. open up task manager then clik on the performance tab then resource monitor i think it is ther somewher and will give youa good reason why ya getting them errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantstopwontstop Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Event viewer doesn't give the details. It just says that Windows shutdown unexpectedly, and I don't know where to find the crashdump files, because Windows seems to have hidden them away somewhere. When it gives the blue screen (of death), it goes through pretty quickly, and I don't have photogenic memory -_- Remove that and it should show you some info about the error. Vista Ultimate has not ONCE crashed on me for the record and ive been using it about a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foub Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I've been using Home Basic OEM for a week, or so now, and I haven't had any of that sort of problem at all. I'm using an Intel Celeron 4 2.4 GHz, 512Megs PC3200 RAM, A FX 5500 128 Meg AGP 8X vid card, a SB Audigy 2 Value sound card, 120 Gigabyte SATA Samsung HD, and my older 40 Gig IDE HD in an external case connected through USB 2.0. The only issue I have is with the overbearing security "features". At the end of this month I'm going to have another half gig put in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+vlsi0n Subscriber¹ Posted February 12, 2007 Subscriber¹ Share Posted February 12, 2007 <snip>Vista Ultimate has not ONCE crashed on me for the record and ive been using it about a week. I've been using Vista Business and it's be on continuously for about a week now; no crashes :D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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