BSOD while away from Computer. 1033

The BSOD went away but now I'm getting these random CPU spikes. (generally in the range of 50-100%, RAM at about 30%) I just played a graphically intensive game for about an hour and no stutter at all. But when I'm doing school work (I usually have multiple tabs open, PDF X-change viewer, Pandora radio streaming, and some folders open), firefox doesn't respond for a few seconds, and the music that I listen to gets choppy. and the computer becomes unresponsive for a short amount of time. Any thoughts?

Have you disabled verifier?

Have you been to the samsung site for your laptop and updated drivers? Check and see if there are udated drivers. If you need it, you can also download your Manual there. The drivers on the driver disk are almost always way out of date.

Did you update your drivers from the Samsung website?

I have a Samsung laptop too. It has a program that is supposed to do that, but I haven't found it very useful. Don't trust software to check for drivers. It's something you need to do yourself every once in a while. In my personal opinion, I always use what is on the samsung site. Laptops seem to be quite propietary. They will a lot of times tweak the drivers for that particular laptop. Just my opinion.

The problem is, you really don't know. You have to research and find out what driver you currently have. The driver numbers are usually sequential. So, the higher number is the most recent. I go by that and the release date. You may find it helpful to get a list of drivers, the driver number and release date and save it on your computer. Then when you update one put the new driver nimber in and release date. It will be a PITA but, once done, will make updating drivers quite simple.