I guess this was my first BSOD?

[Moonsurface]

Never had one on Windows 8 or 10 before so I don't know what they look like but I guess this is wahat a BSOD looks like now, that I got today?

So do I need o do anything? I was just thinking that my surface pro 3 was running pretty well recently with little fan noise and stunning responsiveness from the new keyboard trackpad too (no glitches at all) then this happened.

 

[Moonsurface]

Just happened again. Looking in the reliability history I see lots of unexpected shut downs / windows not properly shut down just today.

I think the something is screwy with the power/sleep settings...??

Any ideas?

 

[GreyFox7]

I believe people have been using hibernation instead of sleeping to avoid these.

 

[Moonsurface]

I believe people have been using hibernation instead of sleeping to avoid these.

Ok, How do you avoid sleep?

 

[GreyFox7]

Shirley [sic] someone around here has done it, I haven't.
Probably something like disable CS, and set it to hibernate but I may have omitted a step.
I use lots of Coffee, repetitive activity, face palming/slapping, and loud music personally.

 

[Moonsurface]

Lol ill try that and matchsticks

 

[Moonsurface]

Hmm, I have a sneaking suspicion it may be AVAST, which I installed after I had problems with Defender not starting.

 

[jrioux]

Never had one on Windows 8 or 10 before so I don't know what they look like but I guess this is wahat a BSOD looks like now, that I got today?

Now that you mention it, I haven't seem the BSOD in the 5+ years that I've been using Win 7 and 8.1.

I guess this is one more reason to wait to install Win 10. They should get all the bugs worked out eventually, no?

 

[Moonsurface]

Oh I'd seen a few on Win 7 on my work PC's. I couldn't get Defender to activate again so I did a reset. First time I've reset my Surface since I got it. Defender is starting OK now thankfully.