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Sorry if this is the wrong section...this is my first post.
I have a strange problem with a portable device. The device is a Creative Zen Vision: M. It seems that whenever I plug it into the computer a blue screen of death follows. I can be anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 hours before the bsod appears...I believe it is a kernel stack error but I might be wrong. I tried updating the drivers and the firmware...neither of which helped. The bsod seems to happen faster when Napster to go is active...not sure if it is related. Any help would be greatly appreciated as it is very becoming very hard to transfer my music.
Thnx all

System specs:
Core 2 Duo e6400 oced to 2.36gigs
ECS nForce 570
BFG 7300GT OC
1 gig(2x512) A-Data PC4200
320 gig hard drive
HEC Orion 485watt Power Supply
AOpen dvd-rw dl

EDIT:
could this be caused by a bad oc on a crap mobo

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I see this problem with zvm all the time, something is messed up with that player if you search for it you will see lots of people have the same problem

for example here are 14 pages of posts of people with the same problem as you

Reply to edklite

edklite
the problem is not the player freezing as discussed in the forum but the computer crashing to the bsod when i connect the player to the computer. Updating the drivers and frimware did not help. Not sur if this helps but it only started getting really bad after i did a clean install of windows xp pro. but thanks for the help. i can't find a similar problem on the forums at creative.

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the thread I gave you has got lots of people getting bsod on their pc just like you. not sure if you looked at all of them or just the title of the thread

Reply to edklite

on that site when they talk about BSOD it is the black screen of death. It is on the player when it freezes. I read through almost all of that thread and could not find a similar problem. Its my computer that freezes not the player. The problem is only on this computer and only got really bad after i did a clean install of windows. I do appreciate the help, though.

Reply to lizardexit

Just thought I'd ask - is that clean install of XP working perfectly?

Reply to pscowboy
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ok well there are ones with the pc also, its a long thread ;)

ok anyways, blue sod happens becasue of driver conflict or hard drive conflict.

you say its fine on other pc so all that points to drivers, redownload your drivers for it from a different source, completely uninstall the currect drivers, search your registry make sure there are no more keys left from it then reboot and install the new set of drivers you have downloaded from a different source. reboot again and try it and see if that helps ;)

good luck

Reply to edklite

bsod's, be them black or blue are the result of two drivers trying to occupy the same space in memory.

I'd go Ed's suggestion one better. Get rid of the overclocking settings - use default. Reinstall the XP fresh - no repair. Install Java6 & your AV - then let XP patch itself. There will be 60-70. Takes about an hour.

After XP is completely okay, install a fresh set of drivers for the zvm.

Reply to pscowboy

ok...i completely removed then reinstalled the drivers and it seems to have fixed the problem, but i'm not completely sure. i'll post again if it persists. thnx for all the help

Reply to lizardexit
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good luck but if it happens again do as pscowboy has suggested, most likely he thinks that it will happen again which is why he asked you to reformat and fresh install.

good luck either way http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/4492/winknw3.gif http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/9609/headbangernu4.gif

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