Steam BSODs Options
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#1 Posted: : Monday, May 05, 2008 10:20:14 PM
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Does this ever happen to anyone? I get a BSOD sometimes when I close that window that comes up to advertise shit. It happened twice when I logged out of the eve trial, and just a few minutes ago when I signed in. Fucking bullshit.
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#2 Posted: : Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:51:39 PM
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Format.
Reinstall Windows.
Reinstall Steam.

Solved.

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#3 Posted: : Tuesday, May 06, 2008 4:02:39 PM
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Rikaelus wrote:
Format.
Reinstall Windows.
Reinstall Steam.

Solved.


Ah, yes. The ant bit you, so we must arm the nukes.
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#4 Posted: : Tuesday, May 06, 2008 5:06:52 PM
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just ignore the first two. reinstalling Steam would be step number one, if you haven't done so. perhaps to a new directory.

is this a new phenomenon?
yeah, i'm a cranky 'oul fucker. deal with it.
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#5 Posted: : Tuesday, May 06, 2008 5:44:11 PM
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TripleBam wrote:
Rikaelus wrote:
Format.
Reinstall Windows.
Reinstall Steam.

Solved.


Ah, yes. The ant bit you, so we must arm the nukes.


Precisely.
Because where there's one ant there will be many. A nuke should pretty well guarantee you get them all before they start biting you, too.

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#6 Posted: : Tuesday, May 06, 2008 5:55:39 PM
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Fuck it, it only happens when I start steam, and even then not very often.
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#7 Posted: : Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:07:27 PM
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Could be an indication of bad sectors on the hard drive.  I have seen stranger things happen because of bad sectors.

It is amazing the machine behaviors you will see when you have 2200 people with 2500 machines total working in one building and you are a support guy.
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#8 Posted: : Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:14:35 AM
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Oopsie wrote:
Could be an indication of bad sectors on the hard drive.  I have seen stranger things happen because of bad sectors.

It is amazing the machine behaviors you will see when you have 2200 people with 2500 machines total working in one building and you are a support guy.


You have 300 guys working with 2 machines? Or 150 guys with 4 machines? Or, jesus, 75 guys with 8 machines?
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#9 Posted: : Wednesday, May 07, 2008 6:02:23 PM
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HolyJaw wrote:
Oopsie wrote:
Could be an indication of bad sectors on the hard drive.  I have seen stranger things happen because of bad sectors.

It is amazing the machine behaviors you will see when you have 2200 people with 2500 machines total working in one building and you are a support guy.


You have 300 guys working with 2 machines? Or 150 guys with 4 machines? Or, jesus, 75 guys with 8 machines?


I have 3 physical computers, a laptop, and one virtual machine atm.  Vista Business 64 bit and Windows XP

I am not a typical user being support, but we are in the process of having folks with multiple machines get a PD with 8GB RAM and run virtual machines for testing and developing.
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