Well on the 20th of October we got gizmo to come along and upgrade our ram from 2 gig to 4 gig.

Also i dont know if this has anything to do with it but at that time i still had the now old vista home premium service pack 1.

Also it was a dell dimension 9200

Two days later (22nd October) my internet disconnected so i decided to shut down the computer and turn it on again to reconnect to the internet. But once i clicked shut down i waited for about 10 minutes but it did not shut down. It just stayed on the shutdown screen. So i decided to turn it off at the tower. It turned off then i booted again and it worked just fine.

Then that night my internet disconnected again so i clicked shutdown once again.
This made it do the same thing (being stuck on the shutdown screen) This time i did not shut it down i just waited… after 20 minutes boom Blue screen of death for about 5 seconds then it rebooted.

Once it rebooted i typed in my password then clicked login and boom a black screen with the white cursor but if i pressed alt control delete i could still access task manager and there were about 4-6 tasks running.

No mater how many times i booted i got the same result.

So the next day we bought windows 7 (the day it was released) 23rd October (bundled with a tv tuner incompatible with windows 7)

I formatted that hard drive using the windows 7 setup disc then i installed windows 7.

Later that day the computer with windows 7 installed did that same booting with white cursor and black screen and access to task manager but nothing else. But it did not do the bsod on shutdown.

Then now an exact week after my bsod on shutdown its happened again.

Windows 7 shut down after 15 minutes but just before it finished it showed the bsod and then rebooted without permission. When it rebooted the black screen and white cursor problem did not occur but whn i successfully loged in a message from windows appeared saying this :

“Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:BlueScreen
OS Version:6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID:3081

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode:9f
BCP1:00000003
BCP2:87305030
BCP3:8296DAE0
BCP4:89063E00
OS Version:6_1_7600
Service Pack:0_0
Product:768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\102909-34632-01.dmp
C:\Users\Philip Adams\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-80777-0.sysdata.xml

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I checked for those file on my computer it recommended strait away but they were not there…

So anyone know what has caused this.

The computer cost $3500 from dell which we bought only 2 years ago so it should not already be stuffing up.