Yet another Timewalking loot post ( As directed by GM)
Opened timewalking Cache before hotfix
What game first sparked your interest in gaming? Was it World of Warcraft?
Did Blizzard just hotfix an ilvl requirement onto Awakened LFR?
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The title basically says it all, I run Vista for my OS (for simply being too lazy to go get 7) and during certain patch updates I get blue screened constantly.
This first occurred after I bought my new computer with Vista and started installing all of my games. When it came to updating WoW at a certain point, I would blue screen at every attempt, but before the blue screen I would go forward a few percentage and then it would die. Starting the download again after the reboot it would resume where it left off and continue a little bit further and BAM blue screen again... eventually it got to a point where there were no more blue screens and I could finish the patching.
Only problem is, is after downloading the PTR, I'm back in the same boat and don't want to go through this method again with my computer. Is there any known remedies for this sort of thing? I'll post my computer's specs if needed.
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Did a run with "Blue Screen View" and found a common reappearance of...
hal.dll
ntoskrnl.exe
This mean anything to anyone?
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2010-09-13, 02:02 AM #1The Patient
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# Blue Screen During Updates (Vista)
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2010-09-13, 04:02 AM #2Moderator
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Upload the crash file from C:\Windows\Minidump to your favorite freebie upload site and link it to us. If we can examine the actual crash data, we can have a better idea of what might cause it.
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2010-09-13, 04:13 AM #3The Patient
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I have the file together but no idea on what type of site you'd prefer it to be uploaded to, any suggestions on that? Thank you so far by the way.
Originally Posted by Cilraaz
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2010-09-13, 04:17 AM #4Moderator
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You can put it up to pretty much any upload site like Rapidshare.
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2010-09-13, 04:22 AM #5The Patient
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I wasn't sure if you meant a file site or not, here's the link: http://rapidshare.com/files/418737813/Mini091210-07.dmp (Most recent Blue screen, I have several.)
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Would you like any other additional information to help out?
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Anything yet? Or should I just go ahead and do it the previous way?
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2010-09-14, 01:46 AM #6Moderator
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It looks like a standard 0xA blue screen. That usually points to a driver problem. Have you updated any drivers recently? If so, you may want to roll it back. If not, you may want to make sure all of your drivers (chipset, video, audio, NIC, etc) are up to date.
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2010-09-14, 01:58 AM #7The Patient
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No recent updates in my drivers. In fact this blue screening issue started on the day I brought the computer out of its packaging. My NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT is currently up to date, not so sure on everything else.
I'm not too computer savvy so one of those may lack an update because of it.
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I'm running Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz, so I went to intel.com and found their "Driver Update Utility" it did a quick scan and found that my Intel(R) Desktop Board D945GCPE: Realtek* RTL8101E-GR Ethernet was indeed in need of an update. I'm currently installing and will let you know if it solves the problem.
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Alright, after installing I got a quick reply from Vista with a warning that the program is now installed incorrectly. Should I assert to it that it is now correct?Last edited by SuperShaggy; 2010-09-14 at 02:05 AM.
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2010-09-14, 02:22 AM #9The Patient
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I believe I did, it was an auto program from Intel that scanned my PC and suggested the download.
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I decided to click, "It's installed correctly" and booted up the patch, so far so good I've gone about .4GBs and no BOSD, further than usual.
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2010-09-14, 02:35 AM #11The Patient
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It looks like this has done it, it has already passed the previous times by a good 8 minutes. I'd like to thank you for your help Cil, you helped me where Blizzard wouldn't even grace me with a reply. Is there anyway we could perhaps keep this thread around for any other poor soul Googling trying to figure out the same problem?
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