My Toshiba Satellite A505 laptop has worked fine until yesterday. I had an occasion where the laptop went to sleep, and upon waking it up and entering my password my desktop showed briefly, then a BSOD occurred.<\/p>\n
I didn’t look for the dump file. It had never happened before, hoped it was a fluke. It was, until just a little bit ago, when it happened again.<\/p>\n
I looked online for anything written on it and it’s a plague with no specific answer for many computers. Simply though, the answer of take “sleep” off of the power options that are saved. Meaning, don’t let your computer sleep. Just let it run out of power if running on battery, or keep it plugged in. This is problematic for me as I’ve loved using my computer with it’s huge battery without being tied to a power cable all of the time. It’s worked fine this whole time I’ve had the laptop since March 2010. Except for twice since yesterday. The thing about it is some Microsoft updates installed on the 16th. So I used System Restore to put me back to the 15th.<\/p>\n
I did change my power options though. I just am unhappy about this issue, don’t want ANY crashes. I have Fedora installed on this computer (dual-boot) but don’t use it as ACPI issues keep it from letting me know how much power, or how little I have, or about impending power off’s. This Windows 7 issue then, on a laptop which I like using the battery with, is secondary to the Fedora problem, but similar. At least, in theory, it will still tell me to plugin soon or else. But I have loved shutting my lid and knowing that the next day I’ll have enough power for an hour or two or three. No more, if I don’t want those dratted BSOD’s.<\/p>\n
I’ll test it out without letting Windows Update re-update my computer. But that will be a test I’ll not be able to stay with. How to find a solution, I don’t know. The last thing I want to do is search forever for a BSOD problem when all I want to do is use my stupid computer!<\/p>\n
Windows 7 is way better than Vista was for me (on a different computer.) I’ve had problems nil on Win 7 until now. About 6 months of computer bliss. Now what? Slave to what Win XP would do to me … miserable. Vista was moreso a sluggish pest of aughhhhhh! Than BSOD for me. Whatever. I don’t like errors, especially when it wasn’t anything I did. I didn’t install anything. Just regular old Windows Updates. Whoa, maybe I did. FLASH asked to update at some point recently. So I’ll see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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