Is this type of software available for free

Oneday77

asininity wrote: »

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

Hope this doesn't start another thread about recommending linux

:rotfl:I would say it is very relevant this time you have my blessing

mrian_2

anewhope wrote: »

What issues are you experiencing?

Blue screen of death.
Originally it started carshing on XP at random times
So I wanted to upgrade my PC anyway so I have done the following to date.
New processor
New Case
New Motherboard
New Graphics Card
New Memory
New Power Supply
New Hard Drive (Then Installed Windows 7)
New Ribbon cables
New SATA cables

There are no more cards on board (ie sound cards)

This only leaves
Mains power lead (Going to change that in 10 minutes)
2 X DVD Drives
Keyboard
Mouse
Monitor
Then it will be a new PC!

I keep thinking that I must be missing the obvious but I am running out of ideas.

I also changed the hard drive from Windows 7 back to XP and did a fresh install and in a couple of days it was crashing again!

I am now back on Windows 7. I am running with very little software just Windows and AVG (I have run with Kaspersky)

Nothing at all makes any differance.

Over the past years I have built and fixed lots of PC's (as an amateur) and never come accross this. I know it will be something stupid.

wheredmymoneygo

"Blue screen of death" is a bit generic. What messages do the BSOD give you?

hippyadam

mrian wrote: »

New Motherboard

Try setting your mobo BIOS to default settings and see if it improves. Most of my BSOD probs have related to incorrect BIOS settings...

But that could just be me...

mrian_2

wheredmymoneygo wrote: »

"Blue screen of death" is a bit generic. What messages do the BSOD give you?

It gives various messages whilst doing a memory dump (blue screen disappears quickly) and then reports to Microsoft and I get a message saying this is a hardware issue refer to manufacturer.

mrian_2

hippyadam wrote: »

Try setting your mobo BIOS to default settings and see if it improves. Most of my BSOD probs have related to incorrect BIOS settings...

But that could just be me...

Re BIOS, When all this started I had a spare M/B and tried this it made no differance and then I bought a new MB and I have cleared the BIOS and I have been through every setting I can find. I have spent ages in the BIOS and I am certain that this is not the problem.

Just to make matters worse I have actually used my old bits and built another PC to sell and recoup some of my outlay and it is perfect. I cannot get it to crash!

It has my old case, M/B, Processor, Memory, Hard Drive, PSU, Graphics Card plus an OLD DVD ROM and CD read write I had in my shed.

Donnie

It's probably your RAM. Try them seperately, if you have more than one installed.

asininity

I'd definitely try ubuntu with this first, BSOD tends to be a software issue despite what the error message says.

It would save you a lot of troubleshooting, besides which you've basically replaced everything with new (basically your on a different PC) so the errors you were experiencing in XP wont be the same as the ones you're experiencing in 7.

If ubuntu crashes like 7 its hardware then do the troubleshooting if it doesn't its windows.

zenmaster

Have you tried booting in Safe Mode with boot logging enabled?

Have you checked the Event Log - Administrative Tools/Event Viewer?

It may be different for Win7.

-TangleFoot-

Assuming that BSoD left a log behind you should be able to analyse it using one of the following:

• WhoCrashed
• BlueScreenView
• Debugging Tools for Windows