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Blue screen of death on my laptop

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Sam Murphy Sam Murphy Active MemberOP
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joined May 2012
#1 ·
So, I've been running into this frustrating issue where my Dell Inspiron hits a Blue Screen of Death right as Windows 7 finishes booting up... but the weird thing is, if I just restart the machine, everything seems to run perfectly fine, and it doesn't even happen every single time I power it on. The error messages I'm getting specifically point toward some kind of conflict with the NVIDIA GeForce drivers... and since I can't find any dedicated Windows 7 drivers specifically for this Dell model, I've been trying to use the Vista drivers that are listed as compatible with Windows 7, but nothing seems to stick. I've already attempted a full reinstallation of the drivers, but that didn't solve a thing, so I was wondering if anyone might have an idea or a workaround for this...
Larry Ortiz5 Larry Ortiz5 Regular
710 messages
joined May 2020
#2 ·
It looks like the driver isn't playing nice with Vista. Have you tried grabbing the specific graphics drivers directly from AMD?

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download#
Sam Murphy Sam Murphy Active MemberOP
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joined May 2012
#3 ·
Larry Ortiz5 said:It looks like the driver isn't playing nice with Vista. Have you tried grabbing the specific graphics drivers directly from AMD?

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download#

I already gave that a shot, but I'm hitting a wall because I can't find any drivers at all... neither through a manual search nor does the automatic detection tool seem to recognize the hardware...
darkowl72 darkowl72 Regular
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joined Oct 2015
#4 ·
Sam Murphy Sam Murphy Active MemberOP
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joined May 2012
#5 ·
darkowl72 said:http://www.dell.com/en/ac/en/US/content/...686.1432072503

I actually headed over there myself to grab the drivers, but I noticed they don't have anything specifically listed for Windows 7—it's just Windows XP and Vista... so I ended up downloading the Vista versions and manually marking them as compatible with Windows 7 to see if that might work...
Lawrence Barnes64 Lawrence Barnes64 Active Member
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joined Jan 2015
#6 ·
Have you ever thought about flashing a newer BIOS? I noticed the one you're running is stuck way back in 2009 😁
but if you already did that, just ignore me...
I don't know, man, I've still got this nagging feeling that something inside the rig is making a weird little noise or something

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