In the past 48 hours I have waded through dozens of posts on different forums trying to find solutions to this fundamental problem, one that undermines the whole basis of upgrading from Vista to Windows 7.
I was running Vista Business and decided to upgrade to Win7 Professional, using Windows Upgrade.
All good, until I left my pc on Friday night, came down Saturday morning, and found BSOD, stuck on Memory Dump at 40. Result: no memory dump. When I next left the pc later that day - BSOD. Same on Sunday morning. So I checked in Event Viewer.
Everytime the PC tries to wake from sleep I get BSOD.
Here's the message in Event Viewer:
Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
Date: 18/10/2010 10:19:08
Event ID: 41
Task Category: (63)
Level: Critical
Keywords: (2)
User: SYSTEM
Computer: Nicholas-PC
Description:
The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" />
<EventID>41</EventID>
<Version>2</Version>
<Level>1</Level>
<Task>63</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000002</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-10-18T09:19:08.763200000Z" />
<EventRecordID>122640</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Nicholas-PC</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="BugcheckCode">292</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0x86d1b024</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0xb2000040</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0x800</Data>
<Data Name="SleepInProgress">false</Data>
<Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
Sometimes the bugcheck code is 000, sometimes 292.
To cut this short I've run debugger on the one partial memory dump, having had to download the SDK amongst other things. That, as it was incomplete gave me:
BUGCHECK_STR: 0x124_GenuineIntel
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT
I've checked all my drivers including Realtek. I've run troubleshooter on the Power Options. I've adjusted the hibernation times, but I'm not prepared to accept a software fault and run my machine at 100% 24/7, just because this upgrade won't allow me to put my machine to sleep and wake up.
I've run *powercfg -h on*
I've tried to track down * error 0x80070057*
I've put my memory, and cpu settings back to stock. They were only slightly adjusted in vtune anyway, and worked perfectly in Vista.
I am running an Acer Veriton M464 E4700 Intel Core 2 Duo @2.60GHz 2Gb Ram
I just don't believe that given all these instances of this happening, especially to people who've upgraded from Vista Business to Windows Professional, that there isn't a solution to it.
I hope someone from microsoft can help. Thank you.
