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    Dell 1520 Vista sleep state bluescreen

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Intelman, Aug 16, 2007.

  1. Intelman

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    When I close my lid for my laptop and stick it in my bookbag, shortly there after I sometimes here the vista startup sound. I then find that windows restarted and has recovered from an unexpected shutdown. In my event log I see that it is a bluescreen, bugcheck

    The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000009f (0x00000003, 0x83e5c5a8, 0x85f8a030, 0x8459ee28). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP.

    I formated the laptop as soon as I got it and am using Nvidia 163.14 drivers. Anyone know how to prevent this. I've installed all the microsoft hotfixes that pertain to 0x0000009f, at least I think I have. Any help is greatly appreciated.
     
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    I have also been experiencing this problem but on my Sager 2090, although it does not happen every time. When I check the event logs, it says my notebook has failed to transition into the sleep state so the notebook had to restart itself.
     
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    Hm, mine doesn't do it all the time either, must be a common Vista bug or a driver bug.
     
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    Check out these fixes from microsoft. I have a similar problem, although it's not quite the same. My laptop crashes upon waking up and also occasionally during startup. I'm not sure what I have is what these fixes are for, but I'm giving them a try anyway.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931671/en-us
    (931671) - Resolves a problem in which you may receive a "STOP 0x0000009F" error message if you put a Windows Vista-based computer to sleep when you have an active modem connection

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929762/en-us
    (929762) - Resolves a problem in which you may receive a 0x0000009F Stop error when you wake a Windows Vista-based computer that is using an IEEE 1394-based device from sleep.