Windows 10 Blue Screen of Death

Pardus

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Hopefully, someone can help me figure this out. I picked up a new desktop from Dell. Reformatted the guest installation with Windows 10 Pro Insider Build only cause I had a legal key to use it as I been testing the new build's for months now. The system was working fine for weeks and I didn't install any crazy apps, Windows, Office, and my printer driver. Today I power up the pc and boom, blue screen of death.

"Your Windows Insider Build ran into a problem and needs to restart. You can restart.
Stop Code: 0xc000021a"

I tried for a long time to fix it by booting to the command window and running a series of bcd commands to rebuild the boot sector. There is nothing wrong with the hard drive as I just installed a new SSD last month.

After a while, I took the SSD out, put it into my hdd caddy, backed up all the data and reinstalled Windows 10 again.

Sorry for the long-winded story. I hope I'm not the only one who has seen this crazy message. Does anyone know how to fix it. It's been driving me mad all day that if occurs again, I will have to reinstall the OS again and again.

Here is a link to the message. After the crash, I downloaded a new clean ISO of Windows 10 (non-preview) using the media creator tool directly from Microsoft. If it happens again, I'm considering going back to Windows 7. Thanks.
 
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RLGL

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Post your question in the Windows Forums. I cannot make out the stop code. One possibility would be a USB device as the cause. I have had to remove a USB 3.0 device to get some of the previews to work.
 

VirtualLarry

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Uhh, "Insider Build", and you're wondering why it's crashing?

Sounds like the same thing as the guy that goes to the doctor, "Every time I hit myself with a ball-peen hammer, it hurts!". Doctor says, "...then don't do that."

Insider Builds are NOT meant for Production machines. I shouldn't have to tell you that, it should be common sense. Even Production-tested Windows versions are buggy enough.
 

RLGL

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Insider Builds are NOT meant for Production machines. I shouldn't have to tell you that, it should be common sense. Even Production-tested Windows versions are buggy enough
I was in the insider program until I got the version that was to be the FCU . I decided that is was good enough for what I wanted and cancelled further new builds.