Last night I was watching a little TV when I thought I’d jump on the computer for awhile, and what did my little eyes see? A nice big BSOD… great. Now, I’m running Vista Ultimate 32-bit, and I love it… but it’s so new it’s kinda hard to get good documentation on why I have a big STOP message on my screen. The message I got was basically:
STOP: 0×000000F4 (0×00000003, 0x????????, 0x????????, 0x????????)
After doing some research online I narrowed it down to RAM, my HDD being set as slave, or heat. Well, I was feeling a little warm… was the heater on? I turned around and looked at my aquarium… hmmmm…. running 4 degrees warmer than it should. Uh-oh! I turned off my system and then ran to turn off the heat (which was set pretty high for some reason). A few hours later and like magic, everything is back working again.
So, what does this mean to you? If you get this BSOD in Vista, first thing I would do is blow out any dust from your PC and check the temp in your room… it seems this error is a good indication of overheating!
