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Bona Dea Ubume:
Okay, so I'm getting really worried right about now.

My laptop just blue screened on me twice about 20 minutes ago. I do regular scans and defrags with my laptop. My laptop isn't even that old, maybe a year-ish (give or take 3-4 months).

The only thing that I could think that was causing it was that I was trying to upload 3 videos to Youtube that I made for Martini. So I'm kind of dumbfounded as to what caused the bluescreen if it wasn't just the laptop blowing itself up from the amount of uploading it was doing.

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Nightsong:
Simple... it's Windows.

Now that I'm done stating the obvious and stupid answer, I honestly don't know what's wrong with your laptop. It's possible it could have been the videos that caused it to lock up and crash or it was something else. I'm sure one of the more technical minded folks can help.

Steinbjorn:
did you write down the error code displayed? probably not i know it goes quick, but if you did or it happens again just google the code and youll know what caused it.
As Nightsong stated its windows, and blue screens are a prerequisite. I really wouldnt worry too much though unless it continues frequently happening.

Makani:

--- Quote from: Steinbjorn on August 03, 2012, 12:02:56 AM ---did you write down the error code displayed? probably not i know it goes quick, but if you did or it happens again just google the code and youll know what caused it.
As Nightsong stated its windows, and blue screens are a prerequisite. I really wouldnt worry too much though unless it continues frequently happening.

--- End quote ---

Yea, you really should try and see if you can find the exact error code and do a google search on it. Many folks claim the BSOD is common, I disagree. Though at least they are somewhat expected.

When the Mac gives me a gray screen of death I rail against apple folks who claim it never happens. For some of us power users . . doesn't matter when machine you use . . you will break them all at some point.

ANYWAYS

Common occurraces of BSOD can be attributed to the following:
(This may not be an issue for you, those error code really help out)

- Overheating event: Dust or air flow restriction is generally a number one cause
- Video Driver event: New drivers, or ones prone to having errors cause this a lot as well
- Bad Memeory event: No matter how new, sometimes you just get some bad luck. Depending on what you are doing, you may not see bad memory unless it's really exercising the amount you have
- Hard reset event: If you don't shut windows down properly, it's possible there is a corrupted file somewhere causing you the issue.
- Recent software update or install: If you've never seen this happen before . . .what was the last driver, software, or anything you did to update the computer recently. If you can get those blue screens to happen regularly by doing a specific thing, and it never happened before, it's likely hardware died or something was installed since last time that is causing the failure. May need to use one of those restore points to go back to when it was good and try to figure out the culprit.
- Overclocking: This is generally what gets my machine. I can't help but try and push out double the speed on my machine . . but if I tweak it poorly . . it ends up blue screening a lot ;)

A lot of the above are common thing I've found in the past. You number one best bet is to find that code so you know where the problem occurred.

Good luck

Torynn:
What Steinbjorn and Makani said.

With Laptops...  the biggest issue with laptops is overheating and airflow. I know while people love the portability you really should have a cooling platform for any laptop you use(such as this or this), ESPECIALLY for gaming(or anything graphically and/or CPU intensive). If you do not, then in my opinion, you are playing roullette until something fries inside.

But as mentioned before, get that BSOD code and we can help you to research it. Unless they are different code/gives you a different code each time. Then you may have major issues.

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