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Is my error really "caused by a device driver"?

S

Swanny

Diamond Member
Hello all,

Every once in a while (maybe once every two weeks) my computer will randomly blue-screen and crash. It usually does this while I'm away for a long time, but sometimes it's while I'm at the computer. When it comes back up, it gives the recovered from a serious error message thing. When I submit the crash, it says:

Error caused by a device driver

Thank you for submitting an error report.

Problem description

A device driver installed on your computer caused the problem; however, we cannot determine the precise cause. To troubleshoot the problem, please see Getting help.


It has been doing this forever, and I've gone through many driver revisions on pretty much every piece of hardware.

I'm wondering if the error was really caused by a device driver, or that is just a generic reason MS gives when the computer crashes and it doesn't know why. I'd rather not think so, but it could just be a random hardware instability. Does anyone know about this?



Thanks in advance for your advise,
Swan


P.S. The system is in my profile here.
 
Seems to me a pretty standard phrase from winXP.

I'd check the PSU (check the rails and see if you get a monitoring proggie on there like Motherboard Mointir 5 etc. It'll monitor the voltage rails and temps), run memtest86 overnight.

If you've already been all over the driver thingy, I'd sugest it's time for some generally troubleshooting.

Fern
 
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