BSOD, but no blue screen

SVEN · 28th September 2008

Hi all.

I hade a strange thing happening today. When I booted up my computer this morning, before it gets to the screen telling me that it is loading my personal setting, I get a box telling me that windows has recovered from a serious problem and to send the info to MS. I clicked on yes and after sending, it takes me to a website that tells me that my BSOD was caused by a driver for some hardware and to update all drivers.

Well, I never had a BSOD it just kept on booting. After a re-boot, everything was just fine. No problems at all.
Of cause I am thankful for that, but what would do this?
Is 1 of the drivers corrupted?
Thanks for any input on this
Sven

Kurgan Nazzir · 28th September 2008

Interesting that this happened to you because it just happened to me a few minutes ago. I rebooted my computer to clear the memory and when it was loading my settings (programs, actually) the pop-up appeard that I had recovered from serious error although I saw nothing out of the ordinary. It may have taken a bit longer to go from the blue Windows screen to my desktop, but other than that I didn't notice a thing until the pop-up.

**Arie** · 29th September 2008

Check the \Windows\Minidump folder for a Minixxxxxx-xx.dmp file where xxxxxx will be the date that the BSOD occurred.

Kurgan Nazzir · 29th September 2008

My minidump folder actually has 9 in it, but the latest one was in July and is named Mini072608-01.dmp.

SVEN · 30th September 2008

Hi Arie

the only minidump I have is from 08-17-08
and I don't know how to open it.

Thanks
Sven

**Arie** · 30th September 2008

So just forget about it. 1 error is no error