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Capn Murphy:
Eww BSOD...Could definitely be a heat thing with a laptop, but here's a quick way to find the info that you need to find out if it's hardware related or if it's kernel or app side.

If you haven't already, right click My Computer (I'm gonna assume you're using Windows 7. Tell me if I'm wrong), select properties, click Advanced System Settings, then click Settings for Startup and Recovery.

Change "Write Debugging Info" to "Small Memory Dump (128kb)" and make the small dump directory the following: %SystemRoot%\Minidump
(If it's already set to that, fantastic. If not, you may need to go to %systemroot% and create a new file called Minidump -- you can type %systemroot% in your path bar of windows explorer, or just navigate to C:\Windows)

If all of this is already in place, then you should be able to find the .dmp file that your last BSOD created in the Minidump folder (if there's nothing in there, you'll have to wait (or replicate) the BSOD so it can write a .dmp to that file we just created).  If you have that .dmp file, you can go download WinDBG from Microsoft from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/hh852363

If you feel less than comfortable working with Windbg, you can always attach the .dmp file here and I'll take a look.


Best of luck to ya,

Capn

Bona Dea Ubume:
I would send the .dmp file... But it's saying I don't have permission to do it, even though I'm the administrator on this laptop, went in and gave myself permission (which was completely arbitrary in my opinion), and still am not able to attach it. This BSOD is really pissing me off.

BB,
Chase
Mixter Yosei Hecate
Bona Dea Ubume
Atlanta Neith

Capn Murphy:
Ugh, yeah, I hate how, even if you're admin (and the only user on the system, really) you sometimes have to go into the Advanced options of the permissions window and click on Take Ownership.

I don't have my laptop in front of me right now (as you may be able to tell from the cellphone misspellings), so I can't type up a walkthrough of how to get there, but if you right click the minidump file, go into properties, security (i think), then permissions, the advanced option should be in there and you can take ownership of the file.

Dumb, I know, but such is Windows sometimes.

-Capn

Bona Dea Ubume:
No worries! :) I'm going to a wedding soon, so I won't be able to even get back to my laptop until maybe, like, 10 PM EST.

BB,
Chase
Mixter Yosei Hecate
Bona Dea Ubume
Atlanta Neith

Gamyon:
If you right click My Computer and select Properties, you can go to the Advanced tab, or if you have Win 7 Advanced System Properties. Under Startup and Recovery hit Settings...  Make sure Automatically restart is unchecked.  Now your computer won't quickly restart before you can get the error code.

Hopefully this helps in the process of getting rid of your BSODs.

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