I’m still playing phone tag with the tech people for the company I bought my laptop from concerning my other problem (mentioned in another thread)–its inability to wake from sleep or hibernate states correctly.
There’s this other problem though.
It gave me a BSOD the very first time I turned it on. And it’s given me four more BSODs since then. So yes, I got a lemon, but we’ll get that taken care of as soon as we’re all on the phone at the same time.
Meanwhile, there’s something strange about the BSODs. They only happen on what you might call a “cold start.” By this, I mean they only happen when the laptop has been powered down for several hours. If I were to turn it off and then immediately back on right now, then, based on experience so far, it would not BSOD. But if I were to turn it off and then wait several hours and turn it back on later, then, based on experience so far, it would inevitably BSOD.
It always BSODs sometime during the boot sequence or initial login sequence. In other words, always sometime before I actually see a desktop, but sometimes after I put in my user account password. (Windows 7 home premium 64.)
The BSOD message is different every time so far. I’ve had
something about the cache
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
PAGE_FAULT_IN_A_NON_PAGED_AREA
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
But anyway, what’s really mysterious to me is, why does his only happen on a “cold start”? Anyone seen this before?
I googled it, and saw a lot of people complaining of BSODS only on what they called a “cold start” but none of them made it completely clear what they meant by this, and no respondants seemed interested in the fact it was only on a “cold start” and instead offered standard BSOD advice about drivers and memory and so on.
ETA An idea that comes to mind is that something isn’t connected properly to something somewhere in there, such that when the computer is cold certain bits of metal that should be touching aren’t touching (or that shouldn’t be, are) but once it gets warm those bits of metal have thereby moved so that they are (or alternatively, aren’t) touching.
Does this sound plausibile?