Blue Screen of Death

Goose500

Goose500

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Hi.
As you may remember I had a new build spec check thing about a month ago, thank you all for you help and advice, but for some strange reason I blue screen.

Just done a new build, specs are as follows:

Q9450 @ 2.66Ghz (Yet to Overclock)
Asus P5K Premium
2GB G.Skill DDR2 PK PC2-8500C5 (2x1GB)
Corsair TX 650W ATX2.2 SLi Compliant PSU
Asus DRW-2014L1T 20x DVD (that +_ thingy)RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter
EVGA 8800GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (My temp card till the new ones come put, EVGA 90 day step up program)
Creative Fatal1ty Headset
Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB 16 Mb cache
Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler
Antec 900
Samsung SM-226BW 22" Widescreen monitor

When ever i try and transfer large amounts of data or occasionally try and installl WOW:BC it crashes, usually with this error:

DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE

I got no idea what it means, please help me, and I am on a copy of Vista btw


Goose

PS: I can upload the mini dump things if someone tells me how :P
 
This is normally a driver problem.

Make sure all your drivers are correct and upto date. Avoid Beta drivers at this stage. This includes display and chipset drivers.

Next, make sure your hotfixes are up to date too.

If the problem still occurs, then you may have to strip the system to essential devices only, test and add them back in one by one as you test and isolate the culprit.
 
Goose500 said:
How do i update hotfixes? Also do u think i should get another 2Gigs of RAM????
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Just head into Control Panel and there's an option to for Windows Update there. If you have security on, then it should update automatically. I'm a little concerned that you don't know this.

As for the extra 2GB, it's not going to help you with this problem. However, your system will of course benefit from the extra RAM. Bear in mind though of the restriction of 4Gb in any 32bit OS, so you won't see all of the physical 4GB. Only about 3.2 GB. You will need a 64-bit OS to take advantage of higher memory addressing. That said, RAM is so cheap at the moment it's worth getting anyway.
 
Ok i just did a sfc/SCANNOW and it said :

Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix som of them

WHAT DO I DO??/
 
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