Win 7 BSOD help *new computer*

[ITMAN]

i would bet £100 on it being the wirelss adaptor drivers

I have had 2 acers now, and found that you MUST install the wireless drivers thorugh windows update and restart before doing anything else, othewise, you get the symptoms you have had (mine were after new AV instal, and removing rubbish, restart BSOD....)

 

[xxsilk109xx]

well it has happened again, it turns out i have pinpointed the problem.

I was incorrect when figuring out what the issue was, it is actually a registry defrag program that was causing the errors. I saw on i think bleepingcomputer about this free registry defrag and compacting program. I have ran it on other computers just fine, but it seems it doesnt work well with windows 7.

Last time i did this after windows had installed updates and needed rebooted, but i did this before reboot. This time i did all of the updates and then restarted and everything worked fine, then i did each step of every program and restarted after i installed and ran everything. The last thing I did was the registry defrag and it crashed with the same errors again. Apparently this messes up with the system restore as well..

Well hope this helps anyone else out in the future. Thanks for everyones insight, as always, its appreciated.

 

[Elemdee]

well it has happened again, it turns out i have pinpointed the problem.

I was incorrect when figuring out what the issue was, it is actually a registry defrag program that was causing the errors. I saw on i think bleepingcomputer about this free registry defrag and compacting program. I have ran it on other computers just fine, but it seems it doesnt work well with windows 7.

Last time i did this after windows had installed updates and needed rebooted, but i did this before reboot. This time i did all of the updates and then restarted and everything worked fine, then i did each step of every program and restarted after i installed and ran everything. The last thing I did was the registry defrag and it crashed with the same errors again. Apparently this messes up with the system restore as well..

Well hope this helps anyone else out in the future. Thanks for everyones insight, as always, its appreciated.

Glad to hear you found the problem and got it straightened out. Always a relief, lol. I have to ask though, is it really necessary to run a registry defrag and compacting program on a new computer straight out of the box?

 

[NYJimbo]

well it has happened again, it turns out i have pinpointed the problem.

I was incorrect when figuring out what the issue was, it is actually a registry defrag program that was causing the errors. I saw on i think bleepingcomputer about this free registry defrag and compacting program. I have ran it on other computers just fine, but it seems it doesnt work well with windows 7.

Last time i did this after windows had installed updates and needed rebooted, but i did this before reboot. This time i did all of the updates and then restarted and everything worked fine, then i did each step of every program and restarted after i installed and ran everything. The last thing I did was the registry defrag and it crashed with the same errors again. Apparently this messes up with the system restore as well..

Well hope this helps anyone else out in the future. Thanks for everyones insight, as always, its appreciated.

Actually it wont help at all.

You didnt tell us the name of the program we should avoid.

 

[AtYourService]

prolly NTREGOPT which is for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP

 

[kagman]

Now why did you run a registry defrag in the first place?

 

[xxsilk109xx]

The program is called Free Registry Defrag, pretty simple i know

1. I heard it will help speed up the computer so i decided to try it, and it says it can save 62 percent space on this particular computer. so i figured why not try it and see if it helps.

2. The only reason i thought it might help is because i uninstalled a lot of crapware and installed a lot of programs, mainly from ninite.

I will be avoiding doing that in the future though lol.

 

[NYJimbo]

The program is called Free Registry Defrag, pretty simple i know

1. I heard it will help speed up the computer so i decided to try it, and it says it can save 62 percent space on this particular computer. so i figured why not try it and see if it helps.

2. The only reason i thought it might help is because i uninstalled a lot of crapware and installed a lot of programs, mainly from ninite.

I will be avoiding doing that in the future though lol.

Is this it:

http://www.registry-clean.net/

Being Win7 compatible seems to be their bragging point.

 

[xxsilk109xx]

yep thats it,

funny because in the help file, it does not even mention windows 7, it just says up to vista x64

at any rate i dont recommend it lol

 

[NYJimbo]

yep thats it,

funny because in the help file, it does not even mention windows 7, it just says up to vista x64

at any rate i dont recommend it lol

ok, but is it possible you have an old version?. I have 4.76 and Windows 7 is all over the place.

 

[vdub12]

Thats funny that the UBCD4WIN BSOD's to.

Try running the classic UBCD and do a memory test. Maybe something took a dump on you. I have had many un mountable boot device BSOD's lately that chkdsk could not fix that turned out being bad hard drives.

I have seen brand new computers with failed hardware to. Its worth a try before you reload the system and would only take a half hour max to run a few tests.

 

[vdub12]

Glad to hear you found the problem and got it straightened out. Always a relief, lol. I have to ask though, is it really necessary to run a registry defrag and compacting program on a new computer straight out of the box?

I always defrag a computer as my last step when reloading. Its probably useless but I have always done it.

 

[vdub12]

Thats funny that the UBCD4WIN BSOD's to.

Try running the classic UBCD and do a memory test. Maybe something took a dump on you. I have had many un mountable boot device BSOD's lately that chkdsk could not fix that turned out being bad hard drives.

I have seen brand new computers with failed hardware to. Its worth a try before you reload the system and would only take a half hour max to run a few tests.

Guess I should read more then the first page before adding my 2cents, lol.

 

[flychromeboy]

Why didn't you just uninstall the last few update? When windows gives you a BSOD after an update and will not boot then boot from a windows CD to the recovery console and find the last updates and uninstall them. If you've never done this before the updates keep their uninstalls in hidden folders under the windows folder, most of them will have names like $NtUninstallKB908519$ or something like that, open the folders and you will see a folder named spuninst in that folder will be the uninstall program for that update. If you need more details just Google spuninst

Thanks for this. I didn't know you could uninstall hotfixes. Googled spuninst and found this article http://windowsxp.mvps.org/spuninst.htm. It goes through the steps of uninstalling. Really useful. Thanks for the tip again

 

[MobileTechie]

IMO registry cleaning and so-called de-fragging makes so little difference it's not worth the risk on a computer that is working OK.

There are lots of tools out there which merely satisfy the urge to do "something".