Finally, the "blue screens" spill has been stopped!

...to coincide with the (temporary?) stop of leaking oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Seriously, after experiencing 20 stop errors (aka the "Blue Screen of Death" —affectionately?) in a period of roughly two months (the age of this brand new laptop I'm using to blog right now), I was able to make it work (I cross my fingers). How did I do it? Apparently, by simply updating the corresponding drivers found in support.dell.com. Among the frustrations, during the process, was my inability to completely take advantage of the 64-bit debugging tools, found in the Windows Hardware Developer Central (WHDC), which I mentioned before in this blog. However, I was consistently getting these blue screen while logging into public wireless networks, but not at home. Did the solution come through the many driver updates I made? Definitely. Was it perhaps the Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter, or
the Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection, or the Dell Touchpad, or the Intel(R) Network Connections (Product Version: 15.2.0.0), or the HID-compliant consumer control device? I don't know. I've been connected for more than 2 hours to this new Starbucks free WiFi service, blogging, somewhere in Park Avenue, and my PC is running smoothly. As lame as the BP efforts to stop the oil gusher (for 3 months) in the Gulf were the "efforts" (for 2 months!) of the Dell Tech Support. Now I'm finally beginning to enjoy this beautiful machine running this beautiful operating system! I also came across an interesting page about Demystifying the 'Blue Screen of Death' (a little old, though) with interesting subjects like Anatomy of a Blue Screen, The Error Message, Modules That Have Loaded, Modules That Were About to Load, Kernel Debugger, among others. Time to go back to the manuals!