# Blue Screen of death **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 26, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477 "2008-01-26T12:58:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boomin99GT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boomin99gt/32/7306_2.png) [@Boomin99GT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boomin99GT)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/1 "2008-01-26T12:58:54Z")
I received my new Dell Inspiron 530S on wednesday. It has 2g of ram, 320g hard drive and is using Windows XP Professional as the operating system. 3 times so far when I’ve gone to open Internet Explorer the system has gone to blue screen and frozen and I had to reset the computer. I went through and did all the windows updates and dloaded Internet Explorer 7.0 and it still did it. I contacted Dell support and she had me make a few changes in my settings and still its doing it. My next step is to ask them for a new computer since this one isn’t even a week old I just thought I’d ask if anyone had any quick fixes for this problem. Thanks -Tom ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/2 "2008-01-26T13:02:41Z")
Honestly if it was fucked up out of the box…I would just make them give you a new one. ---
**Author:** ![FightinMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 1:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/3 "2008-01-26T13:22:12Z")
Get A New One…Dont accept any other solution, escalate as much as possible. Other than that, when it hits the BSOD there should be some pointer values. The look like : 00x0000000 Get those,and google them. Should get some indication of the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Oroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c68b51/32.png) [@Oroc](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Oroc)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/4 "2008-01-26T13:25:11Z")
^ what he said ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/orangeiroc/lolstartrek.gif](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/orangeiroc/lolstartrek.gif) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/orangeiroc/vand.gif](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/orangeiroc/vand.gif) ---
**Author:** ![maverick27](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/maverick27/32/4946_2.png) [@maverick27](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/maverick27)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/5 "2008-01-26T14:18:20Z")
reinstall steam ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/6 "2008-01-26T15:18:27Z")
get a new one and dump shitty IE, use firefox and watch your issues disappear ---
**Author:** ![JDMSIR](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jdmsir/32/7376_2.png) [@JDMSIR](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JDMSIR)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/7 "2008-01-26T18:20:24Z")
Word, take IE7 off and problem will be solved. ---
**Author:** ![JustinH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/8 "2008-01-26T19:11:58Z")
> [@JDMSIR](#): > > Word, take IE7 off and problem will be solved. Total bullshit. Either something is wrong with the hardware, or dell has a bug in their drivers. I’d send it back for another laptop. Just for the hell of it, I would scan the memory modules for error using something like ultimate boot cd. A defective ram module will cause bsod’s. ---
**Author:** ![ILCisDEAD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a87d85/32.png) [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/9 "2008-01-26T19:52:33Z")
> [@JustinH](#): > > Total bullshit. LOL I agree… Find out what the error message says first ---
**Author:** ![Jon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jon)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/10 "2008-01-26T23:07:07Z")
Agreed,most of the time its just a setting/driver issue. My new video card was pulling that shit today,had to tweak a few bios settings and its all good now. ---
**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 10:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/11 "2008-01-27T10:11:52Z")
Need more error info, this could be anything from a driver issue, to hardware, and “maybe” even software. [http://www.memtest.org/](http://www.memtest.org/) has a free memory testing utility, if you want test your memory. Narrow in scope but works quite well usually. ---
**Author:** ![micah](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/micah/32/7257_2.png) [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 10:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/12 "2008-01-27T10:34:29Z")
its DOA, get an RMA ---
**Author:** ![Boomin99GT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boomin99gt/32/7306_2.png) [@Boomin99GT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boomin99GT)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/13 "2008-01-27T16:16:35Z")
They’re sending me a new tower. I called customer service and they said no problem they’ll exchange this one. I could understand the person on the other end of the phone too… it was amazing! ---
**Author:** ![Boomin99GT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boomin99gt/32/7306_2.png) [@Boomin99GT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boomin99GT)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/14 "2008-01-31T22:38:28Z")
So… I got my new tower today and guess what. SAME PROBLEM! I’m calling Dell first thing in the morning and asking for a refund this is just stupid. Anyone reccomend any computers? ---
**Author:** ![ILCisDEAD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a87d85/32.png) [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/15 "2008-01-31T23:15:01Z")
Holy shit? the same problem? Can you get an error message off the blue screen. Maybe its your wall socket not providing enough power? ---
**Author:** ![9c1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9c1/32/7392_2.png) [@9c1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/16 "2008-02-01T03:55:12Z")
> [@Boomin99GT"](#): > > I received my new Dell… That was your problem all along. Get an HP. ---
**Author:** ![MaximaSE98](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/maximase98/32/7600_2.png) [@MaximaSE98](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MaximaSE98)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 4:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/17 "2008-02-01T04:46:23Z")
> [@9c1](#): > > That was your problem all along. Get an HP. I laugh…my brand new HP at work sucks total monkey balls, i would rather use my 2 year old dell laptop…anywho seems strange it would be same problem on two different towers ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/18 "2008-02-01T04:58:52Z")
just get the error and go from there. Grab a pen and paper real quick, its not that hard. ---
**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/19 "2008-02-01T05:30:09Z")
It really doesn’t matter what brand you get…you are getting the same piece of junk from each company. It is basically what price you pay, how much extra crap the load on it and what kind of support they provide. Return it and have someone on here build you one…there are plenty of us that would do it for you ---
**Author:** ![9c1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9c1/32/7392_2.png) [@9c1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477/20 "2008-02-01T05:55:31Z")
> [@OfficerK](#): > > Return it and have someone on here build you one…there are plenty of us that would do it for you Not a bad idea at all right there. I build all of my machines at home. I wouldn’t purchase a pre-built for myself. [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blue-screen-of-death/42477.md?page=2)