bsod

bsod something about MEMORY_MANAGEMENT

#1 beefmasta

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Posted 31 December 2008 - 10:32 PM

well it finally did it, my comp finally crashed (god i hate u bill gates) it didnt give enough time to read the bsod but it said something about a problem in memory_management and then it dumped stuff and restarted nothing else has happened so far

i was in the middle of an MBAM scan if that helps

#2 garmanma

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Posted 01 January 2009 - 11:19 AM

If you are still able to get into Windows, you need to disable automatic restart. That was you can see and post the error message:

1. Click 'Start'
2. Click on 'Run'
3. Type in "sysdm.cpl" (without the quotes) and press Enter
4. Click on the 'Advanced' tab
5. Click on the 'Startup and Recovery' Settings button
6. Uncheck 'Automatically restart', then click on OK
7. Click on OK to exit the System applet, then close the Control Panel.
8. Reboot for the changes to take effect

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#3 beefmasta

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Posted 01 January 2009 - 12:26 PM

and just for the record, my comp seems to work fine even after the bsod

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Posted 01 January 2009 - 12:32 PM

my comp just quit something called "superfetch" any idea what that is?

#5 garmanma

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Posted 01 January 2009 - 04:11 PM

SuperFetch

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SuperFetch is a technology that pre-loads commonly used applications into the memory to reduce their load times. It's based on the "prefetcher" function in Windows XP. [7]

The intent is to improve performance in situations where running an anti-virus scan or back-up utility would result in otherwise recently-used information being paged out to disk, or disposed from in-memory caches, resulting in lengthy delays when a user comes back to their computer after a period of non-use.

SuperFetch also keeps track of what times of day that applications are used, which allows it to intelligently pre-load information that is expected to be used in the near future.

By default the necessary files are loaded into main memory but Windows Vista can use alternate storage such as USB flash drives, thereby freeing up main memory. Although hard disks usually have higher data transfer rates, flash drives can be faster for small files or non-sequential I/O because of their short random seek times.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/window...lyzed,1532.html

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