C# 2005 Express blue screens

[SnOrfus]

I've only been using the new c# for 2 days, but I've gotten at least 10-20 blue screens/restarts.

It's not like I'm doing anything specifc either. I'll be building a helloworld app or xml parsing and as soon as I build, or run it's like tossing a coin to see if it'll blue screen.

Has anyone else had this happen to them?

[umilmi81]

I've been using VS 2005 Pro for about 2 weeks now, and I haven't seen that.

I know all copies of VS come with free technical support. Not sure about the express edition though.

[penagate]

That sounds almost certainly like a hardware issue.

What is the STOP error code that you get? e.g. PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, etc. Usually you can deduce what's wrong from which one of those it is. Also note if it is always the same one.

I'd guess that it could be a flaky power supply, or bad memory timing/dodgy RAM chips.

[SnOrfus]

well, I'm running on a laptop, and the blue screen never sticks around long enough before it auto-restarts so I can't tell what the message is.

Now that you mention the power supply issue penagate, I have been having trouble with my batter and a/c adapter (laptop won't start up with the batter in it at all). That might be it.

[penagate]

To stop the auto-restart (which is enabled by default on all newer Windows), go to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Startup And Recovery -> Settings and uncheck "Automatically restart".

[Negative0]

I've had very similar issues, but mine sometimes just locks the computer with no blue screen.

I was getting a very steady blue screen with the VSDATANT.SYS coming up as the cause. I found that this is linked to ZoneAlarm. I downloaded the latest version (6.0.667) and those seemed to go away.