Random Bluescreen-Troubles

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Lovely Stardock people,

 

I have been using your great program Fences on my personal laptop with windows 10 for two days now, and my experience has been an extremely diverse mix of utter joy and frustration.

Joy was what I experienced first, because I have been looking for an application like this for as long as I can think and you have just about perfected everything about it. At this point I want to express a very big thanks to everyone involved!

But now using Fences has caused me more or less severe problems with my computer that forced me to disable it for the time being. The first thing I encountered were significantly extended start-up-times, from 20 seconds to 2 minutes (I know I am spoiled, but I don't want to have spent so much on my ssd for naught). This problem, however, was easily fixed by removing fences from autostart - with that change it still starts automatically, but slightly delayed, which doesn't bother me. 

The more severe problem, that forced me to disable Fences for as long as the problem persists, are randomly occuring Bluescreens-Of-Death. Since yesterday I have had about 5 so far, and they have been totally random as far as I could assess.

My question to you now is if you have any idea what could be causing this issue or possibly what I could do to fix it.

 

Thank you dearly for any help and suggestions,

Martin

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This is just a wild guess, but I had the same random bluescreen problem a few years ago. It turned out that it was one of my SSD's. Once it was replaced, I have had not a single bluescreen problem. It took awhile for the technician to locate it as the problem after trying various other things. I doubt that Fences has anything to do with it; nobody has ever reported a problem like that associated with Fences that I can recall. Good luck.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

BSOD's can be attributed to anything hardware ! usually. However drivers can cause it as well as software.Windows event viewer may hold more info as to the cause.You can disable auto restart on bsod to get the error codes.Other options is use msconfig

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

A useful tool to help determine the cause of BSODs is Bluescreeview.

As has been already said, the cause is unlikely to be Fences.  Hardware and drivers are often the cause... especially graphics cards and their related drivers/software.  I had a BSOD issue back a while ago and iBluescreenview eventually nailed it down to a recent driver update for my GFX card.

Good luck with it.