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Strange "No Text" BSOD on Connecting XBox 360 Controller
Hi, hope someome can help me out with a very strange situation.
My laptop (a Dell Studio 17 running Windows 7 64 bit) had been working normally until last night, when I plugged my XBox controller into one of the USB ports. I've been using this controller on and off for over a year and have never had any problems with it.
When I plugged it in, the controller's 'player 1' light didn't come on and a second later my laptop's screen went black, then blue. It looked like a BSOD only it had no text, just rows and rows of horizontal, constantly changing coloured pixels. I disconnected the controller and tried pressing a few keys on the keyboard (which did nothing), and a few seconds later the laptop rebooted itself and displayed the "Windows did not Shut Down properly" dialogue.
I've had this laptop since 2011 and have never had a BSOD before. I'm not even sure if this qualifies as a BSOD as it had no text, and I'm not 100% sure the controller caused it. Windows Event Viewer seems to classify it as a BSOD regardless. The only other device I use with that USB port apart from the controller
is a Wacom tablet. I've tried plugging the tablet in today at it seems fine, but I'm too nervous to try the controller again at the moment.
I've attached the dm log collector file, hopefully someone can work out what happened here.