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Why is my computer crashing

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I have a nice, new home built computer. However, lately it has been crashing occasionally.

I don't have much installed by way of programs, but I did install an older HP 722c printer a while ago. It is supposed to use a serial cable, but my computer doesn't have a serial port so I got a serial-USB cable and installed the printer using the XP install a printer feature. It found and installed the driver for my printer.

When it crashes, I'm not using the printer, just surfing the net. I suddenly get the blue screen with lots of white text, but it goes so quickly that I can't read what it says.

Any ideas?

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I agree with Upnorth and Surface. Put the drivers on another partition and also burn them on a CD so you always have them in case a hard drive fails.

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why has no one suggested this is a windows registry error? i think most bsod errors are due to problem with the registry. there are programs that can fix errors in the registry, but some of them seem like scams so I am not gonna recommend one for you.

when you say it has been crashing lately, you mean that it worked fine for how long before it started crashing? if it worked fine for a month you can pretty much rule out hardware incompatibility. it's a software issue and IMHO it's the registry.

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Still having issues. Were should I bring it (South metro) to have it fixed?

Don't trust the geek squad.

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