The dreaded BSOD! (blue screen of death)

[Edtwozeronine]

Having been following Louis Rossman on YouTube, there seem to be some serious issues with newer MacBooks such as the display connector being too short, so as you open/close the lid it can become disconnected. In another model the heat exhausts right next to a glued in part on the hinge, again making it a failure point as you open/close it.

I'm a former Mac fan at this point, and once my 2010 Mac Mini dies I'll be going to PC. It seems to be running well for a decade old machine with a spinning HDD.

 

[The Ghost]

I always buy laptops second hand. I have a few which I use for the kids and other things. I build desktops quite extensively as the charity I and a couple of friends started started some thirty years ago has as part of it's remit I used to (my pet project) give computers to people who can't afford them. We get donated a whole office full of computers and so on which I deal with including erasing reformatting and installing systems on them. Most people are happy with linux. I think Lenovo which is the rebadge of IBM are pretty solid machines. I still have an original IBM 286 computer with 4mb hard drive and windows 3 that still works. Which is the forerunner of Lenovo so that says something. You can pick up a pretty stonking machine for £500. My experience with SSD drives has been poor as two have gone kaput on me. It seems to be little known that SSD drives cannot have scandisk or such utilities used on them. As for static well I am very sceptical of that after all the circuitry in a chip is encased in stone so...anyway I have never never had any problem with static. Hard drives, problems aplenty. I am not convinced a brand new computer can offer anything over a second hand computer, it is pure hype you are buying into. The average person (like the brain) uses about 5-10% of a computers abilities the fact that the latest chip can perform 0.001s faster is not appreciable to the human eye or brain.

 

[Gary Gemmell]

Over the last week or so my laptop has crashed on me a few times and giving me the BSOD.
Its a few years old now, but wouldn't say it was ancient.
The error code it gives is UNEXPECTED STORE EXCEPTION

When I google that, it says that it can be caused by a few things, one being a hard disk on the way out.
It also told me to try sfc /scannow, but that hasn't found any problems.

Is there anything else that can cause this?

I do everything on this machine.... emails, invoices, even browsing on this forum.... so it hardly ever gets turned off. If it is the disk, i'm going to have to start backing up everything soon.

The laptop specs:
HP Compaq
Intel Celeron 2.16 GHz
8.00GB RAM
64-bit processor
Running win10 Home.

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Could be memory?

What you need to do is take teh BSOD error code and plug it into Msfot's error database it will pinpoint what is at fault or if you want to be really techie you can use the bsod log error file

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14238/windows-10-troubleshoot-blue-screen-errors

 

[littlespark]

This is an old thread. And reading #25 I bust the hinge as well, which has in turn severed the cable to the Wi-fi antennae around the screen.
I’ve bought a new laptop since then, just for work. But the old one still works with a hardwire network connection and some tape to hold the screen up.

 

[Gary Gemmell]

This is an old thread. And reading #25 I bust the hinge as well, which has in turn severed the cable to the Wi-fi antennae around the screen.
I’ve bought a new laptop since then, just for work. But the old one still works with a hardwire network connection and some tape to hold the screen up.

Wow didnt notice there arent many people on the IT forums lol
Always go hardwired better for speed, reliability and security.
No IT guys I know use Wifi unless they are war driving or hacking the neighbours wifi lol
Not that I would do such a thing!