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Windows 7 Beta Blue Screen of Death

Windows 7 Beta Blue Screen of Death

By: Peter Chubb | January 13, 2009 | 24 Comments

The public have been able to play with Windows 7 Beta for a few days now, and it seems that users have been running in to an old friend. Things do not seem to change with Microsoft, as the blue screen of death is back, and it looks the same as on previous versions of Windows.

It is not good that Microsoft has not even bothered to change their blue screen; they need to change things now. The blue screen of death is very dramatic and does not make sense to the end-user; they need to explain the error in more detail.

The error does tell you right at the bottom of the screen which driver caused the crash, but then reboots quickly so you do not have time to see. You would have thought that Microsoft would design Windows 7 to identify which type of device has caused the problem.

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  • 4nthony

    I have not encountered the blue screen atall wile running windows 7

    to be honest from what i have seen and herd 95% of the testers have not had the \”Blue screen of death\”

    the 5% that have well strange drivers

    anyway thought i would make a comment on this

  • almiller

    i just started experiencing this last night! it seems to be caused by classpnp.sys file. i can’t start up in safemode or anything. constant rebooting and hanging. i hope someone comes up with a ‘fix’ fast!

  • Rich

    its true im another victim of the blue screen of death and my laptop is a dell inspiron 6400 not rare driver theres to say.
    i want microsoft to fix it, i just installed it and already 3 crashes in less than an 2 hours come on!!!, that cant be!!! have a little profesionalism

  • Pizza

    I am also a victim of the “blue screen of death”! I have a HP tx2000 and it happens to me on a regular bases…. I have even done a fresh install of vista then 7 to no avail. If anyone knows of a fix please post it.

  • TotallyRandomForever

    I am having the same problem! I am running an older XP computer (not sure of the model) and it keeps happening!! Help!! Someone please try to find a fix for this, and if you come across the solution, please post it as a reply to my comment. It would really help.

    I love 7 but its rendering my computer useless. I need to work on papers!

  • virgojeep

    Blue screen of death for me too. I has Dell laptop inspiron 6000 with all updated drivers from dell dot com. I cant make vids full screen and occasionally I get the blue screen for no good reason. I believe it is a driver incompatibility.

  • Wh1teFang

    I add the blue screen. All the drivers were updated. It only happens when I run this game Rumble Fighter. After a minute of ingame blue screen pop-up and then reboot the pc.

  • krush

    Its a beta dumb ass!

  • rocity

    to the Rumble Fighter guy, try setting WindowedSecret back to 1 in the registry, if you’re using that.

  • rocity

    whoops, i meant 0, not 1

  • W.ill

    Same here – started the computer but didn’t use it; it was idle as I was watching TV when it crashed and rebooted twice within half an hour. I’m running Win 7 RC on a custom built Intel P4 3Ghz HT, 1 GB DDR-RAM, Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 3850 (AGP), MSI-875P-Mainboard. All Drivers up-to-date. It also crashes and reboots when I run the system rating/performance check, last time I did that I had to recover the system as it wouldn’t boot Windows anymore (suddenly gave me the vista loading bar as a start-up-screen, and then crashed again). I also have significant performance problems running GTA IV at minimum settings (worked on XP), though other new games (such as CoD 4&5, Fear 2, or Godfather 2) run perfectly at high details/settings.

  • Daw

    RC7100 was running ok for a while, with the Blue Screen coming up once in a while (about twice a week.) Its a pre-release, so I just ignored it (if you download a FREE beta don’t expect MS to supprt you!!! Fix it yourself, you scrap it.) (If you need the computer, don’t install a BETA on it!)

    Anyways, last week it took a total crap out. I got the blue screen, again, and then this time windows would not reboot (boot drivers miss reporting.) I tried reinstalling Windows 7, I couldn’t get Windows 7 to reinstall properly (miss loaded boot drivers everytime.) I ended up reinstalling Windows Vista. Based on RC7100, I wont be running out to buy Win7 right away, like I made the mistake of doing with Vista. Don’t get me wrong, I like Win7; it has alot of promise, but still has too many bugs.

    System info:
    AMD Phenom II 720
    Gigabyte MA-78GM-US2H
    Intigrated Video ATI HD3200
    OCZ HPC 9200 (2GBx4)

  • Fida

    Re: it’s a beta, dumbass:
    Buddy, one of my friends is a technet member and has the final version of Windows 7. He had the bsod during installation. How’s that for a final version?

  • Jay Mehta

    Hey guys even iam a victim of this stuff called the blue screen…i am using a p.c.with the following config.
    AMD athlon(tm),
    64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ 2.00 GHz
    8 Gb Ram(Corsair),
    Graphic Card ATI Radeon HD 4800 series,
    Windows 7 os 64bit
    Now the problem is when i use Atodesk 3D Studio Max 2009 and when i use heavy files for thoes who know `rendering’..of vedio clips that take about 8-9 hrs, works for a while and then the pc crashes…This use to happen while i played NFS Under Cover too but now it does not crash while i play…i dont know why..please help me on this..

  • Dookus

    Bill Gates’s model of producing an operating System and releasing it before it is complete is finally back-firing, Microsoft actually lost ground due to Vista, there are reports that up to as much as 33% (Though I read closer to 20% elsewhere) of all laptop sales are Mac’s people with some skill are finding the courage to try Linux, but for me I just want a stable version of Windows (I am in IT and don’t want to come home and fiddle with Linux and Macs are not my thing)yet here I am dealing with a one year old HP machine that a customer has upgraded to 7 and it Blue screens on bootup, and HP don’t recommend that 7 be installed on this a unit …. It’s one F***ing year old! geezus … dos not the X86 architecture mean all industry wide compatibility (BUT of course not)

  • Mac

    What the blue scren of death in windows 7?has been posibile?

  • Anti virus

    This is to the windows 7 to the blue screen of death in the big errors in the Windows NT Windows 95,98

  • Montgolfier

    Bill Gates’s model of producing an operating System and releasing it before it is complete is finally back-firing, Microsoft actually lost ground due to Vista, there are reports that up to as much as 33% (Though I read closer to 20% elsewhere) of all laptop sales are Mac’s people with some skill are finding the courage to try Linux, but for me I just want a stable version of Windows (I am in IT and don’t want to come home and fiddle with Linux and Macs are not my thing)yet here I am dealing with a one year old HP machine that a customer has upgraded to 7 and it Blue screens on bootup, and HP don’t recommend that 7 be installed on this a unit ….Is the Windows 7 is the WOW.

  • Michael

    Hi all, I have been getting BSOD on both my laptop and desktop since installing the Beta7100 version even after buying the full version and installing that!!! All I can say is Microsoft you have done it again. Not only are they expecting us to swallow the inflated upgrade/full install cost of the OS but then telling us we need to purchase each additional copy at full price??? No wonder more people are moving to Mac when in comparison you can purchase the OS at a third of the cost for one machine or purchase a family pack alllowing you to install on 5 Mac’s for less then the cost of the Windows 7 upgrade for 1 PC???? Shame on you Microsoft and shame on us for accepting it….

  • Avin

    I have same problem with my HP pavilion computer, The Blue screen flash on screen and system get reboot. I am even not able to read what error it showing. Any Idea ????

  • vince

    i had the blue screen on windows 7 home premium (not beta) but my pc rebooted and now evrythinmg works like normal but what is the blue screen actualy?

    Vince

  • A.B.

    I honestly can’t remember the last time I had a blue screen in XP. Now in Windows 7, I’m getting several a week. Just had a blue screen while using the Calculator??? And I hate how “check online for a solution” sits there for a few minutes, then just disappears, with no mention of whether a solution was found. This isn’t the beta, this is production release of Windows 7 Ultimate. I would like to get my money back and go back to a system that doesn’t crash.

  • F6969

    Hi Everyone,

    We all supper from blue screen I have two new hp comp. I will return it to best buy all of them and exchange to Mac. Very prostrating we have to act now and file suit against Microsoft. They new this before hand and here we are the victims.
    Oh well not unless we do something more and more people like us will go through all of this bad experience.

  • BC.Man

    This is why i gave up with Windowz about 2 years ago and switched to Linux. Microsoft is nothing but a monopolizing money grabbing overbloated OS. After all these years and all the different operating systems, microsoft still cant get it right. I gave microsoft one more chance the other day and gave windows 7 an honest try and guess what? yet another B.S.O.D on a perfectly configured new HP quadcore! Goodbye Microsoft I am not missing you one bit and have a headache free computing experience with ubuntu, everything just works and all my devices including my sierra aircard all work perfectly.

    In a world without walls and fences who needs Windows and Gates