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    Windows 7 and torrents

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Ohmsford, Jan 13, 2009.

  1. Ohmsford

    Ohmsford Newbie

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    Hey guys, beyond me loving windows 7, I've been starting to get a few blue screens when I'm doing heavy duty torrent activity. I've got anywhere from 60 to 70 active torrents at any given time, and my connection speed is usually topped out on the upload end. My laptop though has started to give me blue screens after a few hours of this, just wondering if anybody else is having similar troubles? Its on an m1530, as of right now i'm trying to edit the number of connections I can have at any given time to see if that has any effect on stability.
     
    Ohmsford, Jan 13, 2009
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    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    BSODs are caused by hardware so probably not. It's likely a faulty driver.
     
    JCMS, Jan 13, 2009
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    Danv Notebook Enthusiast

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    I having the same problem but my guess is when the laptop come back from Sleep Mode... it crash... I don't know why...

    I have an external screen and when I turn it off... my laptop goes into sleep mode (i guess) and when I turn it back on... BSOD.
     
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  4. Ohmsford

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    I've lowered my maximum amount of connections 512 and its been running rock stable today with Vuze on full load 110 kB/s upload, I'm happy :D
     
    Ohmsford, Jan 13, 2009
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    Polarix Notebook Evangelist

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    Are you kidding?

    No they're not. 90% of the time it's software related, and a driver.
     
    Polarix, Jan 13, 2009
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    blazom Notebook Consultant

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    what software do u use? or it doesnt matter?
     
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  7. Ohmsford

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    I was getting the problem in both utorrent and Vuze, but I've only tried the reduced amount of connections in Vuze. I don't feel like taking another hour to track down all the torrent files to switch back to utorrent.

    And I just remembered that I had this problem in both windows 7 x86 and x64. Solution has only been tried in x64 environment.
     
    Ohmsford, Jan 15, 2009
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