Do you ever receive the dreadful blue screen of death at random times and cant quite figure out how to solve the issue because you can't understand the blue screen? So do I actually, but I have this program I like to use called WhoCrashed from Resplendence Software, you can download it here. Basically the program checks for drivers which have been crashing your computer and directly says the exact driver file. It checks your dump files that windows creates when a BSOD error happens, but those files are confusing for human to read directly.
When you run the program (You have to run it as administrator, right click > run as administrator) you press Analyze, it will then spit out the log, something like this, I had a BSOD recently, you can see the WhoCrashed analyzing it here,
On Tue 7/21/2009 1:54:36 AM your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: atikmdag.sys
Bugcheck code: 0xD1 (0x0, 0x2, 0x1, 0xFFFFF88003F1DFD9)
Error: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sys
product: ATI Radeon Family
company: ATI Technologies Inc.
description: ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver
Which was my ATI drivers, maybe I should update them >.<, You can also click on the links that the log provides, yes this an actual example :)
Like all BSODs, there is no simple answer, most of them are from driver issues, but some maybe from hardware. WhoCrashed is a program which can make fixing BSOD errors alot easier!
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