Any tools recommended for BSOD fixed?
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MediCat USB has a great set of diagnostics included
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99% of the time it's a driver or a sloppy program crack causing blue screens.
First question to ask yourself is what was I doing in the time before the BSOD started happening.
I have had some luck in the past writing down the error message if you get one and Googling it.
Good luck!
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99% of the time it's a driver or a sloppy program crack causing blue screens.
First question to ask yourself is what was I doing in the time before the BSOD started happening.
I have had some luck in the past writing down the error message if you get one and Googling it.
Good luck!
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Personally I go looking for crash logs and error message in caches. Bring back Dr Watson, that little code was awesome to use and have running really miss that.
Error crashes I usually use the NIRSOFT stuff.
Blue screen of death (STOP error) information in dump files.
Displays information about blue screen crashes occured on your system. (MiniDump Reader)
www.nirsoft.net
Basically just reads crash logs on the machine.
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"Just read the crash logs..."
this is the usual smug advice that really doesn't help the non-tekkie user.
The best thing I have found is using ChatGPT, and I presume other AI. You can upload screen shots of errors, or copy to text file, or paste in.
Chat has spent helpful hours explaining and guiding me. Patient and will answer dumb questions. Best support I ever had...been crashing computers since 1985!
You can also upload the dreaded crash log and AI will find the items.
this is the usual smug advice that really doesn't help the non-tekkie user.
The best thing I have found is using ChatGPT, and I presume other AI. You can upload screen shots of errors, or copy to text file, or paste in.
Chat has spent helpful hours explaining and guiding me. Patient and will answer dumb questions. Best support I ever had...been crashing computers since 1985!
You can also upload the dreaded crash log and AI will find the items.
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I assumed that because you were dignosing BSOD events you were aware of the event and how to deal with it. No insult was insinuated or intended.
The Nirsoft program like most things to diagnose errors is intended for use by someone with a knowledge of what you are looking for in the first place. As far as I am aware there is no Click and resolve system currently or historically other than "Dr Watson" an XP based program that not only told you of the event but also the cause, the files affected and so on.
Most BSOD events I have seen as a repair technician over the years as Mr Dog has said are usually events triggered by out of date driver packages or mismanged installation of the packages. Other common places are dodgy Registry keys acting on a bad insert point in some code in a file.
BSOD itself (now discontnued) is intended to lock up your machine due to a bad crash of a file that doesnt work well with the KERNEL part of the system (Kernel being the heart of the running code for your computer) Generally on the screen is a Reference number, taking a picture of it with your phone then tracing the reference number is the only way I know of that will reveal the problem in detail. On rare occasions in my knowledge I have seen a particular file named on the page, but generally the BSOD is a bad driver system compatability with your machine, althoguh thanks to Microsoft this is usually something one of their wonderful updates tends to bring to the for as we all know, Microsaft never make Mistakes (That they will admit too)
If you are getting a BSOD happening regularly, get a picture or write deown the reference number and we will assist in sorting it out with you.
The Nirsoft program like most things to diagnose errors is intended for use by someone with a knowledge of what you are looking for in the first place. As far as I am aware there is no Click and resolve system currently or historically other than "Dr Watson" an XP based program that not only told you of the event but also the cause, the files affected and so on.
Most BSOD events I have seen as a repair technician over the years as Mr Dog has said are usually events triggered by out of date driver packages or mismanged installation of the packages. Other common places are dodgy Registry keys acting on a bad insert point in some code in a file.
BSOD itself (now discontnued) is intended to lock up your machine due to a bad crash of a file that doesnt work well with the KERNEL part of the system (Kernel being the heart of the running code for your computer) Generally on the screen is a Reference number, taking a picture of it with your phone then tracing the reference number is the only way I know of that will reveal the problem in detail. On rare occasions in my knowledge I have seen a particular file named on the page, but generally the BSOD is a bad driver system compatability with your machine, althoguh thanks to Microsoft this is usually something one of their wonderful updates tends to bring to the for as we all know, Microsaft never make Mistakes (That they will admit too)
If you are getting a BSOD happening regularly, get a picture or write deown the reference number and we will assist in sorting it out with you.
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I'm sure the OP appreciates Diguelo's assistance. I would.
My main point is that working with Ai turns into a conversation that is easily steered in realtime. At every step you can say "clarify" "slow down I didn't understand" "How do I do that". Even "write me a script to do that." Writing to forums is slow.
Just saw a video about how authors of tech and help books are losing sales because the AI can or has read all those books, and the questioner gets the synthesis now.
My main point is that working with Ai turns into a conversation that is easily steered in realtime. At every step you can say "clarify" "slow down I didn't understand" "How do I do that". Even "write me a script to do that." Writing to forums is slow.
Just saw a video about how authors of tech and help books are losing sales because the AI can or has read all those books, and the questioner gets the synthesis now.
Hi, I'm a computer technician and I speak from personal experience with various desktop and laptop products. Lately, due to the disastrous W11 updates, I've had several problems (BOSD, sudden freezes on various apps, and even freezes on startup). In most cases, I resolved them by updating the SSD firmware, especially since the problem occurred unexpectedly, on various applications, and even after reinstalling the OS.
I hope my advice is helpful.
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Nice. I only ever did that once to recover data off an old platter drive from Maxtor, the thing had got corrupted somehow.
Never heard of SSD being upgraded after release though, but many thanks for the advice. All information including instructions on how to complete this would be appreciated for our records along with the make and model of the SSD in question. If this has happened on one fo the drives it is likely to occur on other of the same make and model.
Your help in this would be appreciated and gratefully received
Never heard of SSD being upgraded after release though, but many thanks for the advice. All information including instructions on how to complete this would be appreciated for our records along with the make and model of the SSD in question. If this has happened on one fo the drives it is likely to occur on other of the same make and model.
Your help in this would be appreciated and gratefully received
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AI isnt Intelligent, never has been never will be.
To the everyday folk, Artificial Intelligence is the Computer on the Star ship Enterprise. Some say ALEXA or GEMINI is AI, it isnt its a voice operated script box.
Usually, when I have these kinds of problems, I check for BIOS updates and then go to the SSD manufacturer's page.
Just the day before yesterday, I had to do this on several DELL PCs (2 laptops and 4 desktops delivered last month). They recommend a CRITICAL update for this issue on PCs with Kioxia EG6 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB SSD solid state drives.
P.S. Today, I set up three brand-new DELL desktop PCs and noticed that the SSDs have been replaced and are no longer the same models.
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