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Blue Screen crash on Windows

genebren

I can't remember that last time that my system came crashing down, resulting in the blue screen.  It used to happen quite frequently back in the days that I was working on drivers and such, but it came crashing down today.  I don't know if my Windows 7 is upset that it is no longer supported by Microsoft, but I hope it was just some super freak occurrence, and I will be able to continue happily plugging along with my current hardware and software.

 

Anyone else experiences crashes on Windows7?  The only new software that I have been running is the Arduino IDE (in fact, I was editing code in the IDE when the system crashed), has this been known to crash the system?

 

I do think that this might be a good time to back everything to one of my network drives just in case. 

 

Thanks!

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  • I used to support Windows machines as an IT Technician.

     

    There's a set of tools that you use to view and analyse the 'crash dumps' when your Microsoft Windows bluescreens, it's called Windbg - so useful, and it really should come with windows by default.

     

    Usually when I get windows errors 'out of the blue' it's due to a driver problem or hardware failure. Typically RAM or the storage. Unless I've been overclocking and then it's typically the CPU.

     

    Some say that installing Windows 10 still works if you use the installation media and type in your Windows 7 key.

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  • I used to support Windows machines as an IT Technician.

     

    There's a set of tools that you use to view and analyse the 'crash dumps' when your Microsoft Windows bluescreens, it's called Windbg - so useful, and it really should come with windows by default.

     

    Usually when I get windows errors 'out of the blue' it's due to a driver problem or hardware failure. Typically RAM or the storage. Unless I've been overclocking and then it's typically the CPU.

     

    Some say that installing Windows 10 still works if you use the installation media and type in your Windows 7 key.

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  • in reply to cstanton

    Shame on you Christopher for promising a solution with a link that goes to the home page of E14 Community. If in your past life you were a MS Windows support technician I can accept the foible. Who having worked with MS Windows products ever believed it would work the way it should.

     

    An Internet folk lore has it that Canadian Tire took a domain name holder to court to prevent them from registering the domain CrappyTire. Their argument was people called their brand that all the time.  I'm curious as to why MS technical support doesn't alias bluescreenofdeath in the domain name registry.