Bluescreen on boot up... help me solve!?

FartBandit · 11 Apr 2007 at 14:00

I recently upgraded my system with these components.

Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
Western Digital Raptor 150GB WD1500ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM

I've also got in my system an ATI x1900xt, 74GB Western Digital raptor HD and a soundblaster audigy 2 ZS running on Windows Vista x64 Ultimate. Around 70% of the time when my system boots up i find it blue screens with the following message.

http://www.mathus.myby.co.uk/bs.jpg

I cant figure out what might be conflicting in my system. My first thought was the onboard sound but i have that disabled in the BIOS. Could i get some help to figure this out?

hybrid · 11 Apr 2007 at 14:03

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/w2kmsgs/1174.asp

Might help...

FartBandit · 11 Apr 2007 at 14:20

I looked there already, however it doesnt offer anything new

jas07 · 11 Apr 2007 at 18:07

if you have the latest Ati CCC installed then that will cause it. You need to use 7.2 until they resolve it

Let us know if this solves the issue

FartBandit · 11 Apr 2007 at 18:48

jas07 said:
if you have the latest Ati CCC installed then that will cause it. You need to use 7.2 until they resolve it

Let us know if this solves the issue

Giving that a go.

IAmATeaf · 11 Apr 2007 at 22:10

Have you memtest'ed your RAM?

killer_uk · 11 Apr 2007 at 22:44

jas07 said:
if you have the latest Ati CCC installed then that will cause it. You need to use 7.2 until they resolve it

Let us know if this solves the issue

Yup, that's what the problem will be.

jas07 · 11 Apr 2007 at 22:54

killer_uk said:
Yup, that's what the problem will be.

I found out the hard way!

Willbo · 11 Apr 2007 at 23:22

I had the same problem on my new build, I've still got 7.3 installed but i did the following, and it works a treat for me

Click Start
Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools
Double click on Services
Right click on ATI External Event Utility and select Properties
Change startup type to disabled and hit apply
Reboot and the blue screen is gone

Durzel · 12 Apr 2007 at 00:44

Willbo said:
I had the same problem on my new build, I've still got 7.3 installed but i did the following, and it works a treat for me

Click Start
Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools
Double click on Services
Right click on ATI External Event Utility and select Properties
Change startup type to disabled and hit apply
Reboot and the blue screen is gone

Just to confirm that this definitely works.

I had 3 BSODs exactly the same as the OP earlier, did the above fix (found it on The Inquirer of all places) and normality is restored.

jas07 · 12 Apr 2007 at 13:11

Willbo said:
I had the same problem on my new build, I've still got 7.3 installed but i did the following, and it works a treat for me

Click Start
Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools
Double click on Services
Right click on ATI External Event Utility and select Properties
Change startup type to disabled and hit apply
Reboot and the blue screen is gone

Yes this is another confirmed workaround

EDIT: ATI have now released a patch for this, download both 32bit and 64bit here:

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=26900