i was installing zonealarm, windows was downloading updates, i was browsing the web, and listening toi music, all of a sudden, BSOD! something about vsdatant.sys...(error code here) i'm waiting for it to happen again (normally does...) and it didn't reboot, it just shut down..so i restarted, and am posting here... a lil help please loony? info... Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional information about the problem: BCCode: d1 BCP1: 0000000000000008 BCP2: 0000000000000002 BCP3: 0000000000000000 BCP4: FFFFF8800262970E OS Version: 6_1_7600 Service Pack: 0_0 Product: 256_1 Files that help describe the problem: C:\Windows\Minidump\083110-26052-01.dmp C:\Windows\Temp\WER-34257-0.sysdata.xml Read our privacy statement online: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409 If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline: C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt EDIT: i'm not really willing to format yet, got stuffs to do today....i won't be on till earliest of 3:00 PM, eastern time, so please leave all your solutions!(other than formatting...)
I got alot of BSOD's, then the computer would not boot again. It seemed my motherboard and processor burned away. Check if nothing has burnt away (a bit).
thats unlikely. Its kind of hard to give a detailed answer without the stop code, vsdat.sys doesnt show in google, however vsdatant.sys does, and its related to zonealarm. Theres a lot of people complaining about it on the zonealarm forums. zonealarm appear to be trying to blame everything except their own software (standard procedure for most software companies), however I've not seen any 'this will fix it' posts. Different solutions seem to help different people, some are reporting an upgrade fixed it, some say a downgrade fixed it. It probably wouldnt hurt to completely uninstall zonealarm and then reinstall it.
Ive only had bsod a couple of times and that was a bad RAM stick. You haven't put any RAM in lately have you?
knew it....it was half way done installing zone alarm...that was the file, not vsdat.sys but vsdatant.sys.... *uninstalls zone alarm* i think i'll switch to comodo firewall....
