What caused my blue screen?

The helpful Microsoft message says that the most likely cause of the
blue screen is a device driver.
Does anyone know how to determine if a driver is causing it, a piece of
hardware, or whatever?!
It's very frustrating because it happens about once or twice a week.

Hi

Could you please post the Stop Code from the BSOD?

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Will Denny
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"!TG" wrote in message
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The helpful Microsoft message says that the most likely cause of the blue
screen is a device driver.
Does anyone know how to determine if a driver is causing it, a piece of
hardware, or whatever?!
It's very frustrating because it happens about once or twice a week.

When a blue-screen/stop error occurs, a minidump can be produced. This
minidump can be used to help diagnose the point of failure and often times
elude to what device driver is at fault.

In order to get minidumps, you need at least a 256mb pagefile on your
system/boot disk or partition (C: drive most typically).

You may already have some minidumps on your system if you look in the
Windows, Minidump directory. Inspect the date/time of any minidumps found in
there and the most recent can be used to diagnose the problem.

With these minidumps, you can either download Windows Debugging tools from
Microsoft to look at them yourself.. or find a tech forum with attachments
where someone else may help you inspect them.

A good guide for how to inspect/debug minidumps can be found he
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35246


"!TG" wrote:

The helpful Microsoft message says that the most likely cause of the
blue screen is a device driver.
Does anyone know how to determine if a driver is causing it, a piece of
hardware, or whatever?!
It's very frustrating because it happens about once or twice a week.