Blue Screen of Death

[cadfreak]

Scenario:

Both myself and a co-worker have the following setup:

Dell Precision 490
Windows XP x64 Edition
Intel Xeon 3.00 GHz
4.00 GB of RAM
64 bit Machines

On 4 separate occasions we both received the "Blue Screen of Death"
We both had SolidWorks 2007 x64 Edition SP5.0 and Windows
Media Player open at the time of death.

A reboot took care of the problem. I'm not sure what is causing this?

Anyone else experience this?

 

[MadMango]

One of the workers here is set-up the same. He thought it was Media Player 11 acting up. He is experimenting with not running for a few weeks to see what happens, as his BSoD happens very infrequently, but happens. If there are no crashes, he may venture into using WinAmp and looking at results.

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[CakeMaster]

You may want to investigate your graphics card. I have had this happen to me several times as well, and I am almost certain that the cause is my graphics card. Since it only happens every few months or so, I have just let it go. Solidworks has taught me (the hard way) to save often anyway!

 

[ctopher]

Do you happen to have a wireless adapter card installed? It may be its driver.

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[StefanHamminga]

You don't happen to have a Texas Instruments chip for the SD / MMC card reader in there, would you? That driver causes BSODs.

Next time, take a picture and post it, perhaps we can trace it back to the problem (driver).

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[Theophilus]

I've had the occasional SolidWorks-only crashes--not so big a deal. However, in the last few weeks, I've had full-blown Windows crashes when SolidWorks, Windows Media Player 11, and a time tracker I use were in use (very unusual--never happened before). I don't often use WMP while working like that, so that it crashed only when this was active is odd now that you mention it, too. (I'm on 32-bit XP Pro.)

I'd be very interested to see if more chime in with these symptoms. I didn't get BSOD, just an instant reboot.



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[SBaugh]

The BSOD will tell you what file caused the crash. If your machine reboots automatically then you need to turn that off and restart it yourself so you can get the info from the BSOD so you can determine what the message is telling you.

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

Theo,
The BSOD vs auto reboot option can be accessed from Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Startup and Recovery > System Failure section.

 

[StefanHamminga]

If you still get the random 'resets' when the auto reboot feature is disabled I would highly suspect the powersupply. Sometimes, when it is just not powerfull enough you can lower the CPU clockspeed and voltage in the bios drasticly and test again. If it stays stable you've found your cause.

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