Hey guys!
New to the forums here as I've recently been having lots of trouble with random crashes. I recently (within the past 2 months or so) installed Windows 7 Professional 64-bit on my Dell XPS M1530 (~2 year old laptop but with the higher-end hardware; 4GB RAM, 7200rpm 250 GB HDD, m8600gt GPU, etc.) which had Windows Vista 32-bit on it up until that point. I installed Windows 7 because my college (UMass) gives it out as a free update to certain students so I figured, why not.
For the first month there was nothing wrong with it, everything ran smoothly. Now, I'm dealing with a crash almost every day and I didn't know where else to turn!
I followed the steps in the BSOD, but I can't give you guys a PERFMON HTML because every time I attempt to start it, it stops working...so there's another problem. If it makes any difference, I also have COMODO Firewall running, as well as avast! anti-virus.
I hope someone's got a fix for me, it's really bothersome having your computer crash in the middle of research and writing papers and such.
Ok the crashes have several causes.
First I would remove comodo, and avast and replace with microsft seurity essentials and the win 7 firewall.
Update the old drivers especially the 3 year old card driver which is the cause in two of the crashes.
Then I would run a system file check to verify and repair the system files
SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
Let us know if they continue
Ken J
Old drivers
Code:
OEM02Vfx.sys ccccc54c`053f5000 0xcccccccc00009000 3/5/2007 05:55:47 0x45ebf733 fffff880`053ec000
rimspx64.sys fffff880`03e2c000 0x00017000 7/26/2007 06:33:52 0x46a886a0 fffff880`03e15000
rixdpx64.sys fffff880`03e83000 0x00057000 7/27/2007 05:45:50 0x46a9ccde fffff880`03e2c000
OEM02Dev.sys b8a8a128`053eb180 0xb8a8a8a800041180 10/10/2007 21:29:24 0x470d8a84 fffff880`053aa000
rimmpx64.sys fffff880`03e15000 0x00015000 2/20/2008 20:24:19 0x47bcd2c3 fffff880`03e00000
How To Find Drivers:
- search Google for the name of the driver
- compare the Google results with what's installed on your system to figure out which device/program it belongs to
- visit the web site of the manufacturer of the hardware/program to get the latest drivers (DON'T use Windows Update or the Update driver function of Device Manager).
- if there are difficulties in locating them, post back with questions and someone will try and help you locate the appropriate program.
- - The most common drivers are listed on this page: Driver Reference
- - Driver manufacturer links are on this page: Drivers and Downloads