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Postby expat » Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:42 pm

I was used to this with Windows 95, Millennium  and XP, but today I got it with Vista. I though it was a thing of the past................well, you live and learn. :-?

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Re: Blue screen of death

Postby Mushroom_Farmer » Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:30 pm

rarely see the BSOD meeself
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Re: Blue screen of death

Postby NitroPower » Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:30 pm

I was used to this with Windows 95, Millennium  and XP, but today I got it with Vista. I though it was a thing of the past................well, you live and learn. :-?

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I got it once on my PC, and that was because it was gettin' pretty hot.
However, my laptop is a different story. The week after i got it, BSOD.
It has had so many, the Harddrive is junk, and i need to get a new one.
(i hardly ever load either of them down)
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Re: Blue screen of death

Postby Wii » Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:58 pm

I got the Vista BSOD once. I don't remember what caused it but haven't had any since. :D
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Re: Blue screen of death

Postby tcco94 » Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:49 pm

I got the Vista BSOD once. I don't remember what caused it but haven't had any since. :D

Yep same here ;)
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Re: Blue screen of death

Postby elite marksman » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:33 pm

My only problem with Vista so far is trying to get past UAC... I wanted to make Notepad run as an administrator so I can make changes to .cfg and .ini files for games, but UAC won't let me to jack in the windows folder...
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Re: Blue screen of death

Postby Mazza » Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:06 am

I've had 2 BSOD's with XP with system in sig. ;)

But the BOSD is part of Windows i like to think ;D
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Re: Blue screen of death

Postby th3flyboy » Tue Dec 09, 2008 6:37 pm

Ive gotten a bunch of em with vista, turns out that it's always ether:
a. The drivers: update all your drivers frequently
b. bad RAM: bad ram causes a lot of issues with the system
c. BIOS is screwed up: flash your bios and make sure everything is set properly.
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Re: Blue screen of death

Postby T1MT1M » Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:23 am

My only problem with Vista so far is trying to get past UAC... I wanted to make Notepad run as an administrator so I can make changes to .cfg and .ini files for games, but UAC won't let me to jack in the windows folder...



Just turn it off, control panel, user accounts, down the bottom of the page.
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