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Friday, May 21, 2010
New PC and running into some disappointments
Finally, I got my new laptop, a DELL Latitude E6510, a sleek, elegant machine, with great graphics, very smooth and silent operation, with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, etc. However, I got already my first blue screen episode in the form of a APC-INDEX-MISMATCH, something that never occurred to me with Windows Vista, but I figure, and I don't want to point fingers to Microsoft, this is definitely a third party problem, including perhaps, but only perhaps, Dell misconfiguration (?). Blue screens, as far as I know are always related to hardware problems (in the form of bad device drivers) or to software that causes hardware malfunctioning. The screen reads on top: "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer" and that's what it is, on the surface. To dig in a little bit more into the cause of the problem a small memory dump file is created in C:\Windows\Minidump, which can be reviewed using 64-bit debugging tools, found in the Windows Hardware Developer Central (WHDC). I ran into this information while trying to know more about the "dumpchk" utility to see the content of the minidump file (with an extension .dmp). I will continue exploring, while I fix, this issue. For the time being the culprits are Adobe CS3 Web Premium installation utility which triggered the blue screen 3 times (!) and maybe together with System Mechanic, which I already uninstalled. I am speculating right now.
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