subject: Troubleshooting for a System Crash [print this page] Troubleshooting for a System Crash Troubleshooting for a System Crash
A computer crash happens when your computer suddenly stops responding or unexpectedly shuts down. It will bring your computer to a complete state of halt. You may encounter the "Blue Screen of Death" indicating an error in your system. This is a common complaint among computer users. No operating system is immune. A simple reboot would sometimes do the work but crashing is a telltale sign that something is wrong in your computer. It is important to know the causes so you can avoid this problem from happening in the future. Here are some problems that may cause system crash and their solutions.
DLL Incompatibilities
Your computer is crashing due to DLL incompatibilities by third party software. Often installing unsupported software result in DLLs incompatibility and thereby crashing the corresponding application software.
Recently installed software may be responsible for installing unsupported DLL files. Uninstall it as instructed below:
1. Click Start | Control Panel.
2. Click Programs | Uninstall a Program.
3. Select the software that installed incompatible DLLs.
4. Click Uninstall button and follow the wizard.
5. Reboot the system after completion.
Incompatibility of driver
Every piece of hardware in your computer has a software component, known as a driver. The driver is a set of instructions that tell the rest of your computer how to use the hardware. If you have problems with a driver, your computer is essentially receiving bad instructions and will try to use hardware incorrectly. This causes a crash. Driver incompatibility often occurs just after changing out or adding new hardware, or after a driver update. Drivers can be updated using the build-in Windows Update utility, so you do not necessarily have to update them yourself manually for it to cause a problem. Seeking out the correct drivers for your hardware and ensuring that you are using the most up to date driver for everything in your computer is the best way to solve driver -related crashes.
Invalid entries:
When we uninstall any software/application from our computer then it may leave some traces in the registry database. To remove these traces you have to uninstall software properly through Control Panel and then remove its registry entries as well.
Follow these steps:
> Start || Control Panel || Add or Remove Programs
> Select the program and remove it from your computer.
> Download a Registry Cleaner and conduct a thorough scan.
