Debugging the Cause of a BSOD on Vista Home 32bit

Howdy All,

So i am currently working on a friend's laptop and it has me trul
stumped. It is a Dell Inspiron 1420 running Vista Home 32bit. After
clean Vista install the laptop starts to BSOD on start up afte
installing all the initial Windows updates. I can confirm that th
system continues to work/function just fine if I leave the updates of
- but I am bear to do so because I know there are some critical syste
updates included among those first update batch.

I did a bit of debugging work and at first though it might have bee
the hard-drive causing the issue (I ran a diagnostic on it and i
showed a whole slew of bad sectors) but after replacing it with a bran
spanking new HDD I am still getting the BSOD on reboot after installin
the Vista updates. I did a bit of Googling on the model number an
known Vista issue but nothing came up that pertained to causing a BSO
on restart.

Open to suggestions on what I can/should to pin-point the exact issu
at hand here.

Regards,
~Jef


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Jeff9

'Free Computer Applications Everyone Should Check Out
(http://tinyurl.com/ydqn2ej)

Can you post the BSOD message in its entirety? That will help us in
determining the cause and possible solutions?

--
Patrick P.
www.boydcomputersvcs.com


"Jeff91" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Howdy All,
>
> So i am currently working on a friend's laptop and it has me truly
> stumped. It is a Dell Inspiron 1420 running Vista Home 32bit. After a
> clean Vista install the laptop starts to BSOD on start up after
> installing all the initial Windows updates. I can confirm that the
> system continues to work/function just fine if I leave the updates off
> - but I am bear to do so because I know there are some critical system
> updates included among those first update batch.
>
> I did a bit of debugging work and at first though it might have been
> the hard-drive causing the issue (I ran a diagnostic on it and it
> showed a whole slew of bad sectors) but after replacing it with a brand
> spanking new HDD I am still getting the BSOD on reboot after installing
> the Vista updates. I did a bit of Googling on the model number and
> known Vista issue but nothing came up that pertained to causing a BSOD
> on restart.
>
> Open to suggestions on what I can/should to pin-point the exact issue
> at hand here.
>
> Regards,
> ~Jeff
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jeff91
>
> 'Free Computer Applications Everyone Should Check Out'
> (http://tinyurl.com/ydqn2ej)