Not the blue screen! (Win7 question)

[astridv]

Last night I came home from climbing, woke my computer from deep sleep, and it gave me the blue screen of death. It was midnight and I didn't want to sacrifice my climber's high and my sleep to a recalcitrant computer so I just started it in safe mode to shut it down properly. This morning I start it, biting my nails... and it runs without a hitch. But I suspect that the next time it goes into snooze mode I'll get the damn blue screen again. I had this happen twice before, a few months back, and the problem then seemed to be a specific windows update because I could fix it by returning the computer to the previous state and disabling Windows updates for two months. Not the best solution but it worked.

I'm wondering, anybody here running Windows 7 and experiencing a similar problem with standby mode? I guess that something on my computer doesn't play well with Win7 but I don't know what it could be.

Comments

[ratcreature]

I have no windows specific advice, but have you updated to the newest BIOS for your mainboard? Sometimes these hardware-software interfacing related glitches can be fixed by having the newest of everything. I mean, it would be a bit odd that a sleep mode bug would only be triggered by newer windows not an older one, but who knows.

[astridv]

Hm, no, never done that. I didn't even know you could update that. I'll look into it.

[ratcreature]

It's rather like firmware updates for your router or other electronics. Though generally they try to make the BIOS not too buggy, so often I don't bother to keep track. I've only done it once with a previous computer to fix some bug or other, but it wasn't that complicated iirc. The website of the mainboard manufacturer had instructions together with the BIOS download.