How to resolve Blue screen of death

[JaimitoBond]

I'm running XP pro on a T41p, and recently been getting the blue screen and it says some driver is the cause. My question is, how do I find out which driver causes it? Been doing quite a few system restores to the days that I never had them, but it doesn't seem to resolve it. Usually it occurs without opening any application. Can happen just after Windows log in and started all the apps in the tray beside the clock.
Could this be a RAM casued? I recently installed a 1GB RAM.

[BillMorrow]

well, for sure, try pulling the 1gig part and see if that cures the BSD..
OH..
cute little roobot or whatever it is in your sig line but some on slow connections might not be so happy to have to d/l it every time..

[JaimitoBond]

Found this on the MS website. Apparently, page file sizes can casue the problem. I had "system managed" selected on the page file size. I changed minimum to slightly larger than 1.5 GB, as well as some registry thing on crashdump. Hope it works.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... bContent=1


BTW, the robot is Predaking, a DecepticonTransformer, for those young enough to remember

[BillMorrow]

heh, heh..
touche'

i think you'll get static from miss mouse, among others..

[Jim Hope]

This is a pretty good site for debugging stop messages (blue screen).

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

[JaimitoBond]

This is a pretty good site for debugging stop messages (blue screen).

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

Thanks, I found it.

I have the following stop error:
0x000000D1: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

The system attempted to access pageable memory using a kernel process IRQL that was too high. The most typical cause is a bad device driver (one that uses improper addresses). It can also be caused by caused by faulty or mismatched RAM, or a damaged pagefile

My new RAM could have caused this, but at the bottom of the blue screen a driver called epstw2k.sys was noted. This turns out to be the HP scanner driver hooked up to my port replicator. I don't remember if I still get the error when I don't use the port replicator, so I will wait and see.

[hausman]

cute little roobot or whatever it is in your sig line but some on slow connections might not be so happy to have to d/l it every time..

... i think you'll get static from miss mouse, among others..

The simplest solution for those who take offense is to get a browser that blocks images from specified sites. With Mozilla I can transform that transformer into white nothingness with two mouse clicks. And that's only one of Mozilla's features that makes me wonder why anyone would consider using MS IE to surf the web.

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[dkpw]

I had a stable XP install on my T41 until I ran Windows update and installed the .Net Framework updates. Sitting on a NetWare 6.0 network, my previously impeccably behaved T41 blue screened three times in a row and restarted.

I too received the message that a driver had caused the crashes but as the only configuration change was the .Net update it didn’t take much detective work to realise the cause.

The .Net update was on the machine for half an hour before it was removed and stability returned.

Can I also recommend Mozilla to anyone still using IE. In particular I would suggest FireFox. It’s fast and lean, especially if you do not want to use Mozilla’s e-mail or chat features. It also works a treat in Linux.

Regards

dkpw