BSOD on Windows 7 Beta

xtratime said:

I have done this and the latest dump is available. It sure makes the system run slow after setting this on doesnt it.

Yes, that's why it's not enabled by default. The performance penalty is considerable.

Anyway, I think you should consider the possibility that yours is a hardware-level issue. This latest crash is verifier catching NTOSKRNL (the OS kernel) supposedly corrupting its own memory management structures. When you see things like that in a verifier crash, it is frequently caused by hardware.

Mismatched memory? Too-ambitious manually configured timings? Over-clocked? Under-cooled? Plain broken? Any of those are just some of the possible hardware causes.

H2SO4 said:

xtratime said:

I have done this and the latest dump is available. It sure makes the system run slow after setting this on doesnt it.

Yes, that's why it's not enabled by default. The performance penalty is considerable.

Anyway, I think you should consider the possibility that yours is a hardware-level issue. This latest crash is verifier catching NTOSKRNL (the OS kernel) supposedly corrupting its own memory management structures. When you see things like that in a verifier crash, it is frequently caused by hardware.

Mismatched memory? Too-ambitious manually configured timings? Over-clocked? Under-cooled? Plain broken? Any of those are just some of the possible hardware causes.

I dont have anything overclocked - why would this only show up after being in sleep mode though? If somethings broken it should fail in normal mode and vista i would of thought. Maybe i will add some memory and just not bother with sleep mode because it seems to be something hard to find the root of the problem.

xtratime said:

I dont have anything overclocked - why would this only show up after being in sleep mode though? If somethings broken it should fail in normal mode and vista i would of thought.

Not necessarily. Those interactions are complex.

Make sure your BIOS is up-to-date, as well as your drivers. Problems directly linked to power state transitions can sometimes be caused by BIOS-level issues.

I have updated my bios so will give that a go

Seems that the bios update has worked with my issue. I have also added 4GB of ram ready for the release date.

xtratime said:

Seems that the bios update has worked with my issue. I have also added 4GB of ram ready for the release date.

Excellent, glad to hear it!