Blue screen of death...

[Wing Nut]

Well, for the first time since I started using XP, I have gotten the infamous Blue Screen of Death...

I have had crashes, hardware failures, software conflicts, and just about anything else you care to imagine, but through 3 different computers with XP on them, I have somehow avoided this.  

I was working in Gwax, listening to Aretha Franklin, and all of the sudden it crashed like a Kennedy after a 2:00 AM bar closing.  The screen said something about a Page Fault where no page existed.  Not to be an alarmist, I started the PC up again, turn Aretha back on and fired up Gwax again.  I did get an error during loading Gwax, but it seemed to load o.k. after that.  I loaded my autoback file, worked for a few minutes and it crashed again!

Do you think it's possible my PC doesn't like soul music?  :)

Oh, and BTW, Firefox had my homepage reset to it's own default...

[Nick N]

[quote]Well, for the first time since I started using XP, I have gotten the infamous Blue Screen of Death...

I have had crashes, hardware failures, software conflicts, and just about anything else you care to imagine, but through 3 different computers with XP on them, I have somehow avoided this.

[Wing Nut]

Happened again today while listening to Media Player...  :P

This time it said:

driver irql not less or equal

[Nick N]

[quote]Happened again today while listening to Media Player...

[Alonso]

I've been using WinXP since it came out but surprisingly... I've never gotten any BSOD!!!

I've also been using a P3 laptop with Windows 2000 and no BSOD either.  :o

[ctjoyce]

What is the exact hex code. IE: 0x0A 0x7E 0x01. Give me an exact hex code and I can tell you exactly what is wrong. If this is only happening with audio programs, your sound driver may be currupt. However if you are getting something like 0x0A (RAM failure) then you have a faulty stick of RAM.

Probibly the best thing you can do without waiting for another one would be just reinstall your sound driver.

Cheers
Cameron