Getting blue screen error with "video scheduler has encountered an unexpected fatal error" message

Anonymous
2011-07-30T18:50:18+00:00

Original Title: Blue screen of death :'(Hello,

My troubles began yesterday when my Acer PC froze unexpectedly. I restarted it and it worked well for a few hours but then I got my first ever blue screen of death which told me "video scheduler has encountered an unexpected fatal error". After a few Google searches on this I reinstalled the driver for my video driver. I also ran system restore.

I switched on my PC today and not long after I started using it I got another blue screen but this time it told me the error was REFERENCE_BY_POINTER STOP: 0x00000018, 0X0000000 0x8A419DD8, 0x00000002, 0xFFFFFFFF

My PC has Windows Vista x86 32bit. I purchased it new in August 2009 with Vista installed already. I have not reformatted the PC or reinstalled Windows since purchasing it. My video card is Intel(R) G45/G43 Express Chipset

Please help me fix this!

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-08-07T02:22:07+00:00

    Can you make the minidump file from the last crash available via Windows Live SkyDrive?

    Also can you check here?:

    Start > type view advanced system settings in the "Search programs and files box" and press "Enter" > then press "Settings" under "Performance" > Advanced > press "Change" under "Virtual Memory' > then make sure "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" is selected > OK

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-08-06T08:57:05+00:00

    Done :)

    I received a blue screen again yesterday and it told me:

    DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

    It mentioned the file HDAudBus.sys

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-08-06T00:43:38+00:00

    It's a bit early so suggest buying a new PC.

    Can you do the following?:

    Start > type eventvwr in the "Search programs and files" box and press "Enter" > expand "Custom Views" and then right-click "Administrative Events" > select "Save all events in Custom View As" and save as an .evtx file

    Then make the resulting .evtx file available via Windows Live SkyDrive.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-08-03T21:17:35+00:00

    Malwarebytes found nothing bad. Is this problem something I can't fix, will I have to buy a new PC?

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  5. Anonymous
    2011-08-03T19:36:57+00:00

    My PC froze again shortly after I started it today, no blue screen though. I installed Malwarebytes and am running a full scan now.

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