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
    2011-08-21T17:14:00+00:00

    I ran diskclean up, the biggest files were the system error ones.

    Yes it really says that. Underneath the column header "% Free" it says 0% for both of them (1.92GB free on C, 455MB free on F).

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-08-21T17:48:00+00:00

    When you ran Disk CleanUp did you remove as suggested the system restore points? Are you using any other data backup software?

    Please post a picture of your Disk Management window as a shared file to your Sky Drive?

    To investigate disk space usage download and install Treesize (freeware).

    https://www.jam-software.de/customers/downloadTrial.php?article_no=80&language=EN&PHPSESSID=6odgempt76un9q9nkj7luf5be0

    Information on Treesize

    http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

    When you open Treesize select Scan from the Menu and you will see a list of drives. Click on C and it will generate a list of Folders. Post the names and the sizes of the 6 largest folders and the total at the top of the list.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-08-21T18:22:26+00:00

    Yes I removed the system restore points.

    468,224.0 MB C:\

    433,657.1 MB Users

    20,730.8 MB   Windows

    6,517.6 MB     Program files

    2,020.0 MB     MyWinLockerData

    1,918.9            [Files]

    1,747.8            ACER

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-08-21T18:37:51+00:00

    Nicholas

    Using Treesize what are the six largest Folders in 433,657.1 MB Users?

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  5. Anonymous
    2011-08-21T18:44:57+00:00

    It's only giving me four:

    433,446.0MB Nicholas

    209.2MB         Public

    1.9MB              Default

    0.0MB              [Files]

    Within "Nicholas" the top six are:

    357,637.0MB Documents

    64,064.8 MB  Videos

    8,567.0 MB    Downloads

    2,052.0 MB    AppData

    1,116.4 MB    Pictures

    8.4 MB            [Files]

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