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Got BSOD for no reason?

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bigboy105us
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« on: June 20, 2011, 02:09:40 PM »
Last night, I was shutting down my computer just like I always do every night before I go to bed. I shut it down appropriately by going to Start then Shut Down and that normally works just fine. But when I did that last night, I suddenly got the BSOD saying it had to be shut down to prevent damages then I got the screen giving me options so I choose to Start Windows Normally. That worked out fine. Then windows came up and said that windows was shut down inappropriately. I can't figure out how that's possible. I shut it down the right way by going to Start then Shut Down just like I always do.

I haven't installed any new hardware or downloaded anything in the last 48 hours. It just acted this way when I was trying to shut it down then this happened. So I can't understand what happened or what I can do to prevent this from happening again. I am now running a virus scan to make sure there's no viruses.
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Remy_van_Tol
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« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2011, 05:58:47 PM »
Computers are made by humans, so sometimes things can go wrong. As long as it doesn't happen more frequently, you can safely assume that BSOD was an isolated incident. If it will occur more often, it may be possible a driver got updated in the background (Windows Update) and resulted faulty.

I really don't think this has anything to do with a virus.
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Speed_Up
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« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2011, 06:19:23 AM »
- Windows BSODs are often due to heating issues inside your computer. If you are using a desktop computer then try to install a better cooling fan. Or simply you may turn off your computer for sometime and start computer again.

- BSOD may also happen when there is low RAM installed on the system. Some programs need more memory space to run and adding RAM would give your computer much needed boost.

- One of the most important aspects of operating system is its registry. If there is minor corruption in this part then it may lead you to errors similar to Windows 7 Blue Screen. There are some readily available registry cleaners on the market.

As we cannot stress enough that manual modification of registry is dangerous as well as difficult but any mistake in its modification can cause some of your programs to stop running.

It would be wise to select a registry cleaner such as McAfee secured RegInOut that also offers you a feature of PC optimization.

Using its PC optimizer feature you can even remove browser junk, system junk and also manage the start up items to increase the boot speed of Windows computer.
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Miah
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« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2011, 07:24:25 AM »
n general terms the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) can be caused by many different problems and Windows has shut down in order to protect the system. Most BSOD problems are caused by installing new incompatible software or indeed new hardware that has an incorrect driver or somewhere something has become corrupt. In any event you might just be able to roll back your system to a good state before the problems started occurring:

Re-boot your system in Safe Mode: This can be achieved by continually pressing F8 during the boot sequence. You should now see an option to boot your system at the last good boot – select this and if it works give yourself a pat on the back.

Assuming the above failed it is possible that your boot sector or boot files on your hard drive have become corrupt. You can attempt a fix by booting from your ‘Recovery’ CD and following the instructions for ‘Repair’.
If and when the repair has finished you will get the C: prompt. Now type chkdsk /r (NOT chkdsk/r but chkdsk space /r) and press return (enter). This means run a program called check disk and repair any faults found on the hard drive. Sorry but we have not yet finished because I am now going to assume that your Windows Loader file is corrupt and it is this that is causing your BSOD message.

First of all you need to have your C prompt sitting at the root directory of your hard drive. This can be achieved by typing cd c:\
We need to rename your corrupt loader file by typing ren ntldr ntldr.old – did you get an error message? If so you might not be at the root directory so try cd c:\ again and then rename the ntldr file.
Now we must copy your good original loader file from the Recovery CD and put it back into the root directory of your hard drive. For this exercise I am going to assume that your CD drive is drive D but it could be drive E or even F so replace the D in my instructions with your own CD drive letter. Here goes:
Copy D:\i386\ntldr c:\

In English – Copy SPACE D:\i386\ntldr SPACE c:\

Now reboot your system
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