Showing posts with label SQL Server 2005 Blue screen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SQL Server 2005 Blue screen. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

SQL Server 2005 & Blue Screen

I had almost forgotten that the "blue screen" of death exist till I started staring at it for the past couple weeks.

I have taken up a new assignment and was given a Lenovo Thinkpad (I hate working on laptops) to carry out my assignment. So to make myself comfortable I bought a MS wireless keyboard and mouse. And there it was, I started getting the blue screen every once a while.

It took me a while to realize that this would happen only when I work with SQL Server 2005 and do a "Open Table". The grid lines will blur and randomly the system will crash. This didn't happen everytime but whenever it happened that is what I was doing.

Looking it up on www.bing.com (yes some people are using it) gave me http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=258813 which had a few workarounds. And one of them was uninstalling the driver for the wireless MS mouse that I had bought. That did the trick for me too.

Kill the ipoint.exe and uninstall the driver.

I talked to another colleague of mine and he had the same issue. His was due to some NVidia drivers. He disabled it from Control Panel > NVidia Desktop Manager. That did the trick for him.