Windows 7 :: Random Black Screen Crashes

Random Black Screen Lockups
I don't know if this is the known black screen of death or if the symptoms are different but I'm getting annoyed by this problem. I can use my laptop just fine, I'm actually writing this post from it. But every now and then, a black screen pops up and there's nothing I can do, no key presses do anything, no mouse, it's just black. I need to reboot the computer by pressing the power button. This happens out of the blue whenever it feels like it...

I'm able to run the OS for days or even weeks without happening it, but every now and then and boom, black screen... It happened on very different occasions. I can only remember one of them cause it happened just a few minutes ago and I had just come off of hibernation but the internet connection wasn't quite working yet and so messenger wasn't connected. I then pressed the "connect" button on messenger manually instead of waiting for it to connect automatically and it was when I pressed the button that the black screen appeared. It doesn't happen every time I press the connect button...

My system has not changed that much and there's nothing I've installed that I hadn't used before. I also haven't updated the video drivers since I installed Windows 7 and never had a problem with the system (my laptop is old and there are no driver updates anyway).

I don't know if it's just a coincidence or not, but I never had this problem and I'm running Windows 7 since it was out for MSDN. I've only started to see this happening when the first news about this so called "black screen of death" started to appear. Before that, this never happened before..

It happened again just a few minutes ago.. I was simply typing a post at some forum and boom, black screen, forced reboot.. Dammit, it happened again while I was simply double-clicking an icon on the notification are to open up an application...

Event Log only shows this: "ERROR: The previous system shutdown at 20:02:34 on â€Ž20-â€Ž12-â€Ž2009 was unexpected." And also this because I had to forcefully power it off: "CRITICAL: The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first.

This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly."

Nothing else relevant on the Event Long I'm afraid...

Any idea what might this be and to fix it?

Posted: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 8:00 PM

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Video Games Black Screen That Crashes While In Full Screen
All the games I had when I used Windows Vista were playable. Now with Windows 7, whenever any of my games starts in full screen mode, my monitor turns black and does nothing else. The monitor still detects my computer because the monitor gave me no error of a missing input. I cannot alt+tab or Ctrl+Alt+Del or even WindowsLogo+Tab and I am forced to cut the power and restart.

After long tiring research giving me such suspects like DirectX 11, disabling Aero, to the all popular lacking computer requirements to play the game I could play before I installed Windows 7. My conclusion was I could play games as long as there are not in full screen mode or in other words Windowed Mode.

Why must I play all my games in Windowed Mode to play them on Windows 7? Is there a way to fix this problem?

I have already tried to play a few games in compatibility mode and it does not change anything.

Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:20 AM

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Random Crashes, BSODs, Freezes
I think this all started after I did a RAM upgrade

It began with programs stopping (kernel32.dll, idon'tknowthenameanymore.dll)

But also games are just freezing after some time, mw2, ac, cod4. They all crash randomly.

Now sometimes the whole system freezes and I have to reset it.

Also, I get various BSOD's (ie IRQl not less or equal)

I think it has somethin to do with my memory,

I have 4 gb dual corsair 1066 kit combined with 2 gb Reaper 1066.

I am thinking of re-installing windows, because I didn't install it after the upgrade

Or do you guys think that the memory is corrupted?

Specs:

Win7 ultimate x64
MSI p45 Neo-3 FR
Core2Duo E8400
Ati HD4870

Posted: 12-17-2009 at 07:36:42 AM

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Random Win 7 X64 Crashes And Freezes
every time i try to install windows 7 on my new build, i do a clean install, however it spends about a second on the copying files part, then waits a few minutes before it starts expanding files. it hangs at 0% for a few more minutes then it will start accelerating. it will crash at random points while it is "expanding files".

the crashes vary, sometimes the display will explode and look lagged out then look like small tiles, the display sometimes turns red where shadows are as well, it also likes to just freeze. it frequently likes to freeze at 76 or 46%.

i had 7 installed one time when i kept my mouse moving constantly throughout the installation, but then the freezes would happen when i would boot into normal windows, but not safe mode.

Posted: 10-24-2009

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Random White Screen
I am having issues with Windows 7 locking up with a White background. Sometimes the audio continues but not every time. Crtl Alt Del does not do anything and my only option is to hold down the power button to force a hard shutdown. I do not get any dump files even if I leave the system in that state for hours.

I have updated my BIOS to the latest, I have all of the latest drivers for my system but nothing seems to correct the problem. I have tried replacing the Video card and RAM but again, nothing corrects the issue. Any suggestions?

Posted: Sunday, January 17, 2010 3:19 PM

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Recurrent Random Blue Screen
I've been getting random Blue Screen errors lately. By random I mean that every 3 sessions out of 5 ends in a Blue Screen. 1. When playing games - Torchlight, The Witcher, Modern Warfare 2, etc. Â - happens expectedly when playing - just a matter of how long it will happen (sometimes you can play for 2 hours straight, sometimes in just 15 minutes) Â - usually ends with a repeating BURRRR sound as per the last sound file played before hanging up.

2. Heavy surfing using the latest Mozilla Firefox browser(v.3.5.5) - 30% chance that it will happen Here are my relevant system specs: AMD Athlon 7850 Dual-Core Processor 2.80 Ghz RAM: 4.00 GB DDR II SDRAM Win 7 32-bit motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H rev.1.0 Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS Driver Date: 9/27/2009 Driver version:8.16.11.9107 I have also secured this system with an APC UPS 500 ES power backup unit to ensure it doesn't get damaged by power interruptions. Here's the latest problem details that Windows 7 had in its report:

And I wrote down the relevant codes on the Blue Screen - this is all it shows aside from the normal "If this is the first time ..." text. STOP: 0x00000124 (0x00000000,0x86591024,0xB4302000,0x00000135)

Note that this is the latest set of codes. It was different 2 sessions ago. I'm asking anybody's opinion on this as this was not a problem on this system when I was using Win XP on it. I did a fresh install (not an upgrade) to Win 7 early this year. I was not able to track whether it was a software installation or upgrade that led to these Blue Screens. Same hardware I used since Win XP, though - no changes.

I hope you can help me determine what the problem is - software or hardware so I can take the appropriate steps (whether I should re-install, or just update drivers, or change hardware components or, worse case - going back to Win XP).

Posted: Thursday, November 26, 2009 1:33 AM

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Extremely Random Win 7 Blue Screen Help
So I recently installed theÂ latest build 7100 of Windows 7 RC. About once or twice a day I get random blue screens. My screen will distort and then kind of jumble all the lines together as if random colors are on the screen (I'm speaking of lines not pictures) and then blue screen. I don't think it's a hardware issue as my laptop is sufficiently cooled and is fairly new.

Here's the error log:

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7100.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:

BCCode: 19
BCP1: 00000020
BCP2: 8520D000
BCP3: 8520D300
BCP4: 08600000
OS Version: 6_1_7100
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1

Files that help describe the problem:

C:WindowsMinidump

Posted: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:19 PM

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Blue Screen, Frequent Crashes
The crashes started almost immeditately after I got this computer, in January 2009. They have steadily got worse, until the last few weeks it has been several times a day. My dad is into computers, and has worked with me the last few weeks, even taking it to his house for a day or so. We thought a clogged heatsink might have been the problem, but I don;t think it is.

5-6 errors usually follow within a couple minutes, they are:

Event Log Event ID 1000--Previous shutdown was unexpected.

Critical Error: Kernel-Power--41--The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first.

Atikmdag--52236---CPLIB--General--Invalid Parameter

Atikmdag--43029--Display not active

Service Control Manager--7009--A timeout was reached (30000 miliseconds) while waiting for lxdnCATScustConnectService service to connect

Service Control Manager--7000--The lxdnCATScustConnectService failed to start due to the floowing error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

This is the order the errors come in. We have ran diagnostics, dad has checked hardware, I am completely loss on this. Kernel-Power is the only critical error I get.

Posted: Sunday, October 25, 2009 5:45 PM

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Crashes With Blue Screen Of Death
I'm using an HP Pavilion DV7 Entertainment notebook. I've installed 7 Beta and had NO issues. I installed 7RC and it crashes daily.Â I have the .dmp files for analysis.Â HP has nothing to do with 7 yet because its not a GA release. How can I go about diagnosing where the problem is so that i can see if it can even be fixed?Â

I've looked in the event logs, temp folder under my user name, .dmp file, looked at installed apps, the antivirus (Kaspersky), +++.Â I use predominantly MS apps. there are a few non native Microsoft apps such as Nero 9, Kaspersky, Blackberry Desktop, etc.Â any suggestions?

Posted: Friday, June 19, 2009 1:24 AM

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Blue Screen - Crashes Several Times A Day
I recently upgraded to WIN7 64bit. My computer crashes several times a day and in the event viewer I get the below critical msg:Windows Operating System; Version: 6.1.7600.16385; Event ID: 41; Event Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power; Can anyone help.

Posted: Thursday, December 03, 2009 4:08 AM

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Crashes With Blue Screen When Connect To Internet
I mÂ having a win7 evolution copy, i don`t know what had happen to it as soon as i connect to internet my system get crashes.

if i don`t connect to internet i can work for any much time but wen i connect to internet it got crashes with blue screen. even some times it get connected with some time then after that it crashes don`t know whats the problem.

IE disable/Enable----done not helped
Mozila disable/Enable----done not helped
yahoo messenger disable/Enable----done not helped
msn messenger disable/Enable----done not helped
firewall closed open --- done not helped
antivirus disable/enable --- done not helped

even all the user process and system process and services stopped except critical process still the same issue.

wireless lan is disabled/enabledÂ not helped

connecting to internet using a usb high speed brodband connection wireless modem, but using it since so long time then this error was not there i m facing this error since some days. As win 7 is also with me since so long back time.

Is it any hardware error but if i don`t connect to internet win7 works perfectly. As i m running it on sony viao VGN-CR11GH/w machineÂ and the worst part is my dvd rom is also not working properly so its hard to reinstall the system without any hardware upgrade.

Posted: Friday, November 13, 2009 7:23 PM

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Game Crashes On Launch, Blue Screen
Trying to play Soldier Front on Windows 7, and I get a Blue screen on the launch,

Error in dumb_wmimmc.sys

Posted: Sunday, May 24, 2009 10:12 PM

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Frequent Crashes / Blue Screen Errors
I have been using Windows 7 for the past 10 days. As a part of the testing, i have installed multiple softwares in the system. Most of them are Microsoft recommended. None of them are heavy one's. But off late i have been seeing that windows crashes every few minutes. Every time its some blue screen error message.

The first few days, it was very stable, but now, these frequent crashes are very annoying. I hope there is some solution.

**Â My windows is completely updated. The AVG antivirus running is also updated.

Posted: Thursday, February 05, 2009 2:11 PM

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External Boot Screen Crashes My Computer
i have been using Tuneup Utilities for years to keep my computer running well. I installed it on Windows 7 and loaded an external boot screen and now whenever i try to boot Win 7 it just shows black screen. i waited for 5 minutes and it still didn't do ____. and since i cant get past boot i cant disable the boot screen and Windows 7 is useless.

can anyone shed some light on this problem and maybe offer some solutions? or in the very least drop me a link to a good blog website?

PS i have Windows XP on the same machine so a solution that don't involve reformatting would a be a blessing.

Posted: Saturday, March 21, 2009 5:31 PM

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Blue Screen Crashes When Using Realplayer 11 Gold
Ever since I installed Windows 7 RC I have been having blue screen crashes with realplayer 11 gold. I use this app on XP & Vista and used it with Windows 7 Build 7068 with no problems what so ever but now that I'm using the RC build my computer crashes ever time. What was done differently between build 7068 and build 7100?

Posted: Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:52 PM

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Ati 5850 Crashes On Full Screen
I have a ati sapphire 5850 video card and every time I expand a window to full screen watching videos on you tube it crashes. Any ideas guys.

Here is the set-up.

Gigabyte Ga-p55-ud4p Ver. f3 bios
ati sapphire 5850 vc 9.10 catalyst
windows 7(64bit) home prem
core i5 750
4g corsair ddr3 dual channel
750w antec true power psu

Posted: 11-04-2009 at 08:19:46 PM

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Black Screen Of Death - Wont Boot Up To Login Screen
I need help trying to fix my Windows 7 because now it has a black screen and it won't boot up to the login screen.

Posted: 06-07-2009

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Post Is Fine Then Black Screen After Windows Start Screen
After a fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit everything is great until I shut it down. When I turn it back on the boot is normal until just after the startup screen then the Monitor goes black and into sleep mode while the PC seems to continue on. It doesn't do it all of the time. I have loaded all the latest drivers for Win 7 for all the hardware I have.

I post mentioned the CRT Monitor had to be shut down for and hour then he could see the windows screen. He also said the LCD monitor was fine. So, is this the fix? a new Monitor? or is there some setting I can adjust to get past the black/sleep screen issue?

Posted: Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:33 PM

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Win 7 RC 64 Bit Installation Crashes With Blue Screen
i tried to install the Windows 7 RC 64 Bit installation on my system.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ 2,3 GHz
4 GB DDR2 RAM
ASRock ALiveXFire-eSATA2 R3.0 MBoard.
250GB Sata HardDisk

I have at first installed Windows XP on one partition and then i tried to install Windows 7 on another partition.

Every time i tried to install Windows 7 the installation wants to complete the installation.
The system wants to start but then the system restarts with a bluescreen.

I cant say whats on the display during the bluescreen because the system restarts too fast.

The Windows 7 RC 32 Bit installation completed without a problem.

Has someone an idea?

Posted: Saturday, July 11, 2009 5:22 PM

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Black Screen For 5-10 Seconds Before Windows Login Screen
i recently just installed a clean install of windows 7(instead of a upgrade from my vista.i got the free upgrade),now everything works fine expect when after the windows 7 splash occurs there is about a 10 second delay were the screen is just black with a cursor.

Posted: 11-16-2009

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Upon Startup, Black Screen With Mouse, No Logon Screen
Okay, I did my research, but it hasn't helped. I've tried:

1. F8, enable low resolution video (didn't work)

2. F8, safe mode (didn't work)

3. F8, last known good (didn't work)

4. Startup repair (didn't work) Anybody got other ideas?

I can't login at all as I don't ever get a login screen.

Posted: Monday, July 20, 2009 5:49 PM

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Blue Screen Crashes With ATI Cards 3450 And 4830
The ATI drivers for WINDOWS 7 (Engineering sample WDDM v1.1) version 8.560 1.0 crash on a daily basis on a couple of machines, one running a 9550 quad core processor and one running the i940.

Generally the screen will flicker, sometimes windows recovers, oven it shuts down.

The error message is: Description:

A problem with your video hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: LiveKernelEvent
OS Version: 6.1.7000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

I know of no newer drivers from ATI.

IS NVIDIA having similar problems are are the video hardware driver issues peculiar to ATI?

Posted: Monday, March 16, 2009 6:49 AM

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Bad Pool Header Error - Installation Crashes With Blue Screen
i m on a amd dual core 5200, abit k9n with latest bios, ati 4830, 2gb ram 800mhz (2x1)

i have downloaded from my university Windows 7 x64 version (the free copy for students build 7600) but i have also tryed 2 other versions (rc i think, both 64 and 32) with no success.

first of all, the starting installation page is very slow, after 4-5 minuts on "setup is starting" (advance mode, not upgrade), and at the second step (expanding windows files 0%)

installation crashes with blue screen:

first time i get: bad pool header error

second time i m on another blue screen: "a device driver attemptingto corrupt the system has been caught. the faulty driver currently on the kernel stack must be replaced.."

now i will try the 3rd time to install in "safe mode" and i post new info here.

if u need something more to know for helping me ill provide them as fast as possible.

Posted: 10-08-2009

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Installing Backup Exec Remote Agent Crashes With Blue Screen
Backup Exec Remote Agent v11 build 7170 SP3 with hot fixes: 47, 48, 51, 52, 53, 56.

First attempt to install the remote agent, the OS crashed with a Blue Screen.

Rebooted the PC.

Second attempt to install and it is fine now...

OS unstable.

Posted: Monday, January 19, 2009 5:06 PM

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Black Screen After Coming Out Of Screen Saver
I have a lenovo X61 which I removed all partions of and installed W7U x64. downloaded the lenovo update utility and the combination of lenovo auto download and windows update installed all necessary drivers. Machine was working beautifully for at least 4 weeks.Then once I was working without the power plugged with over 50% of charge left. Went away for a while came back and the machine was I assume in blank screen saver mode.

I moved the point tracker, typed some keys but the deep black screen would notÂ go away.Â tried forcing to go into sleep by shutting the cover. that didn't work. Tried for force it into hibernation by pressing the power button once thatÂ didn't work. Hard reset it by pressing the power button until it went off.when rebooted it allowed me to loginÂ but Symantec NIS2010Â gave me an error that it is was not activated although it was.

I restarted the machine and this time it will not boot. Tried safe mode. No luck.I had to reinstall everything again 4 days ago.Yesterday again, I got the black screen when my laptop went into blank screen saver mode with no power connected to it.Hard reset was the only solution. This time I started up in Safe Mode then restarted and it is working fine.

However, I do not want to risk going through the same issue again. We are configuring a volume mirror replication at work to recover faster if something happens again. But this is very troubling, time consuming and frustrating. any ideas what the issue might bet?

Posted: Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:22 AM

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Black Screen Instead Of Logon Screen
I use the bios selection to boot from either drive A or B.I use Windows dual-boot menu on drive B to select between Vista and 7RC.

The black screen problem was first observed with both the 32-bit and the 64-bit versions of the Beta distributed at the Installation Festival. I had taken only one monitor to the festival and everything appeared to be working fine then. Once home, I noticed that I had no sound. I downloaded drivers for my SPXFI card and got sound but, got the black screen on reboot. I asumed that the SB driver was the cause. I had configured the Display on DVI 2 as my main display.

I then tried the 32-bit version with the same results. I had purchased a brand new 1TB drive for my Win 7 experimentation. I had disabled my main drive (A) throught the BIOS for installation. I hastily concluded that W7 was not quite ready for my system. I installed Vista Home Premium on my B drive using the same method and everything worked fine.

When RC was announced, I downloaded the 64-bit version, created a partition on my B drive and installed it there while my A drive was disabled from the BIOS. Installation went fine but I encountered the same black screen problem on the final reboot. However, I observed the odd disk activity and did not want to turn of the computer while this was going on. I tried Ctrl-Alt-Delete and other things and managed to get some voice from the computer.

I had activated the Access functionality from the invisible logon screen. I did another Ctrl+Alt+Delete, typed my password and followed by Enter. The monitor connected to DVI 1 immediately came on. I did not have a menu bar because I had specified the other monitor as my primary one. A right-click on the screen brought up the contextual menu, from which I selected Personalize > Display > Change display settings.

Clicking the "Detect" button turned on the second monitor. I plan on altering my connection so that my main display will be on DVI 1 instead of 2. In the mean time, I will blind-type my password and restore the settings.

Posted: Sunday, May 10, 2009 5:47 PM

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Black Screen In The Logon Screen
i installed the beta and everything seems fine, the instalation procces finished and the wizard rebooted the pc twice, and then the windows logo poped up and windows started to load but it got stock there, where the logon screen is supposed to be, instead there is a black screen with a thin blue line on top, now i cant go back to xp and windows 7 doesnt work.

Posted: Saturday, January 17, 2009 10:02 PM

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i can't setup the tv options, because there's nothing like that. it displays a secound monitor, but not as a tv. i can't set a lower resolution & hz to tv, because it won't display the created one's (like 640@50 or 100 hz) amongst the choosable resolutions. only the defaults appear there.

for xp and an older nvidia there was a solution - 'downgrade' the driver. there was a registry file, which gave back an older nvidia control panel, and i could set up everything perfectly. but now i have no clue.

Posted: 09-17-2009

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