Vista SP1 Blue Screen

Well i have always said that blue screen is caused by hardware and Vista SP1 shows this again. I have applied SP1 to 3 Machines a dell Latitude D620 and a Motion Computing LS800, and a home made PC that about 2 years old.

On the Motion and the Home made PC. I had Blue screens of death during the install. It was kind of ugly the Motion took 21 hours to finally finish. That was after 2 attempts. But after researching both Blue Screens I found that I had a Bad SD card reader in the Motion Tablet. (not sure it is bad but it never has worked) I had forgot about it.

And on the home computer I had an old hard drive that I have never removed it was just disabled. SP1 Reenabled it and of course it failed badly. once I removed the hard drive and disabled the card reader all seems really good.

Overall not a bad install if you think about the fact that in all cases I could get to the things I needed to to fix the problem. So not bad but you need to make sure your hardware is good if it is not you will have a few issues.

About Mitch Roberson

Having worked as a consultant at multiple VAR’s as well as Microsoft. Mitch has had the experience of Seeing a multitude of environments. As well as working with both Network, Systems and Security teams. This has allowed him to broaden his knowledge in many areas of IT. Because of this broad experience it has driven him to an almost fanatical desire to have visibility in his environments so he can understand what is happening with in an environment. He still is responsible for day to day operations of Active Directory, Exchange, and much more. But his passion is to learn how applications communicate so he can decrease mean time to resolution.

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