Vista blue screen of death!

[z3r07w0]

Since i've upgraded to windows vista i have recieved 6 blues screens of death. Memory dumps, as its put. Vista, for some reason, won't allow me to download torrents using a torrent downloading program i.e. azureus. I googled this issue and i can't find a fix. Any ideas?

[Undead_Mercenary]

Try uTorrent. It's a simpler alternative that has yet to fail me.

As far as your Vista problem... downgrade to XP? That's all the advice I can give lol

[XoR]

Zer0, I'm betting the new Vista FIARwall is filtering incoming ports for your torrents. I agree with Merc about uTorrent, it's really good. Fiddle with allowing incoming and outgoing ports for uTorrent, and possibly port forwarding if you have a router in front of your PC.

As for Vista and BSOD's, I would just make sure you have all the latest drivers for everything, including chipset drivers.

Otherwise, hold your breath and hope for the best with Vista SP1.

Another option (what I do) is run WinXP pro, but have Vista on a second hardrive and just dual boot. I use Vista rarely, and poke around whenever I need to be reminded that feature creep is a bad thing.

[midnightservice]

I have 6 Vista systems including to at the office an di have yet to have any crash on me or even get a blue screen of death. Zero, if your getting a blue screen of death this early in the game i say just re-stage the system as something has gone wrong during your intial question and answer session when you first started it up.

As for Bit-Torrent or uTorrent i dont ue either, i am not a torrent person. but i can tell you this. Vista and P-2-P clients except for the one built into windows does not get along, and most deff does not like norton 360

[Imperil]

I would strongly suggest running memtest86 overnight and checking for errors. When I built my latest system I had the exact same issue using Vista x64.. the system seemed to run fine but large downloads would be corrupt. After running memtest86 I found there were a lot of bad blocks on the sticks so I took them back for replacements.

99% of the time if you are blue screening from a download (in Vista) it is actually RAM or memory controller related.

I've been using Vista64 since about March and we have about 15 systems at the office and all of them run flawlessly, except if there are hardware issues (which is the only time you'll ever see blue.. hardware or drivers)

[z3r07w0]

that would explain my blue screen reporting as a memory dump. I'll run the program tonight and report back what i find.

[z3r07w0]

After running a registry cleaner and adjusting some settings on my torrent downloader i havent had a problem with the crashing.