Neowin News Feed for: Crashes

Intel PCs crashing with "out of video memory" BSOD, but AMD and Nvidia apparently innocent

Sayan Sen — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:44:01 +0000

There may be a bug or an issue on Intel CPUs, especially those belonging to the 13th Gen and packing many cores. The bug is leading to BSOD or crashes while gaming with an "out of video memory" error. Read more...

Tesla confirms DoJ request for Autopilot documents in criminal investigation

Usama Jawad — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 06:08:01 +0000

Tesla has confirmed that it has been required by the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over documents regarding its Auotpilot system. The company is under a criminal investigation right now. Read more...

VMware confirms Carbon Black is indeed causing Windows BSODs and boot-loops

Sayan Sen — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 07:58:01 +0000

VMware confirms its Carbon Black EDR is causing Windows systems to crash at boot with a BSOD or run into boot-loops, which impacts over 50 companies. Thankfully, a workaround is also provided. Read more...

Latest Windows 11 BSOD due to faulty drivers needed by antivirus software, claims Sophos

Alap Naik Desai — Mon, 16 May 2022 15:16:02 +0000

Several Windows 11 users started experiencing random BSOD screens after installing KB5013943 update. Sophos claims the crashes were due to drivers needed by antivirus software and has released a fix. Read more...

Microsoft Edge Dev 102.0.1227.0 fixes many crash issues, adds new Sandbox policy, and more

Sayan Sen — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:50:01 +0000

Microsoft's latest Edge Dev Channel build 102.0.1227.0 has just been released. The new build fixes multiple crashing problems, adds many new features like a Network Sandbox policy, and more. Read more...

Systems with some Intel SSDs crashing when installing Windows 10 April 2018 Update

Boyd Chan — Sat, 12 May 2018 02:38:01 +0000

The latest update for Windows 10 appears to be crashing on systems with certain Intel SSDs during upgrades. The news comes a week after stability workarounds on Linux were required for related drives. Read more...

Microsoft adds QR codes to Windows 10 'Blue Screen of Death' to help troubleshoot crashes

Andy Weir — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:46:01 +0000

Fixing issues that caused your PC to crash may soon become a lot easier, as Microsoft is apparently experimenting with adding QR codes to the crash screen to direct users to troubleshooting resources. Read more...

iOS and Mac App Stores causing crashes on some updated apps

John Callaham — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:50:54 +0000

A problem with the iOS and Mac App Stores from Apple is causing a number of apps from both stores to crash after they have been newly updated. Apple has yet to comment on the issue. Read more...

Windows Phone 7 Facebook application woes [Update]

Byron Hinson — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:25:04 +0000

If reader reviews are anything to go by, the Microsoft produced Facebook application for Windows Phone 7 devices has started to suffer from a number of issues. According to WPCentral, it seems that users started to... Read more...

Chinese Windows 2000 attack crashes PCs

Steven Parker — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:45:16 +0000

Security researchers have spotted malicious code that triggers a critical vulnerability in the Chinese version of Windows 2000, and warned non-Chinese users to expect attacks. Symantec confirmed that the proof-of-concept code publicly posted to the... Read more...

NVIDIA drivers responsible for nearly 30% of Vista crashes in 2007

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:16:06 +0000

Nearly 30% of logged Vista crashes were due to NVIDIA driver problems, according to a Microsoft data included in the bundle. That's some 479,326 hung systems, if you're keeping score at home, and it's in... Read more...

Gritty Nits - Fix Internet Explorer 7 Crashes in Vista

Steven Parker — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:30:14 +0000

A lot of you may have seen Internet Explorer crash "Internet Explorer has stopped working" when closing the browser in Windows Vista. It happens all too often and while it no longer takes the operating... Read more...

New attack code crashes Windows XP & Vista

Steven Parker — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:50:49 +0000

Security researchers have released attack code that will crash Windows XP and Vista PCs that are susceptible to a recently patched bug in the operating system. The code was released yesterday to security professionals who... Read more...

Users complain new Gmail version slow, crashes browsers

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:42:21 +0000

Google Incorporated's major upgrade to Gmail is getting complaints from some users: the new version is extremely slow, often fails to load pages and even crashes their browsers. The search giant began "upgrading" some of... Read more...

China's Olympic ticketing system crashes on first day

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:32:19 +0000

The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games watched unhappily as their online ticketing system for the games crashed shortly after tickets went on sale to the general public. BOCOG's ticketing site received 8 million... Read more...

Live OneCare Home Page Crashes Internet Explorer 7 x64

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:33:39 +0000

So I'm sitting here trying to get the Windows Live OneCare version 1.6 story up on the front page, and I can't figure out why Internet Explorer 7 keeps crashing. I've never ever seen it... Read more...

NEC Image Chips Stop Car Crashes

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:55:52 +0000

Image detection processors have initially been deployed for facial recognition in security applications. NEC is among the first of the electronics manufacturers to apply image detection to the automotive industry for accident prevention. The first... Read more...

Sky crashes into free broadband

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:52:26 +0000

Sky is the latest company to get on the convergence wagon by offering broadband internet access alongside other comms services. Aimed at existing Sky customers the service will be "free" - if you spend enough... Read more...

Portal Player Crashes After Apple Announcement

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:28:43 +0000

Chip maker Portal Player saw it's shares almost halve in value last night. The brutal price drop was caused by Apple's announcement that they would not be using their chips for future versions of the... Read more...

ATI crashes prices on new X1600

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:34:08 +0000

ATI ISSUED a cheerful press release which publicly claimed a heavy price reduction on the new X1600 series. As of now, the new Radeon X1600XT with 256 Megs of GDDR-3 video memory is priced at... Read more...

ZoneAlarm Experiencing "True Vector" Engine Crashes, Again

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:22:41 +0000

For the second time in less than a month, users of ZoneLabs product ZoneAlarm Pro are experiencing severe difficulties with the programs' TrueVector Engine. Since Friday, June 24, reports of the same issues have been... Read more...

Update crashes ZoneAlarm firewall

Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:27:03 +0000

A bug in a Zone Labs update caused the popular ZoneAlarm firewall to crash late Thursday for about 50,000 users of ZoneAlarm Pro and ZoneAlarm Security Suite products. "The majority of customers... Read more...

Google Typo Crashes Systems

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:31:12 +0000

Spyware authors and phishing fraudsters yanked an old scam out of the playbook Wednesday by directing malicious code at Internet users who may be prone to typing or spelling deficiencies, according to security researchers. Finnish... Read more...

Microsoft Crashes Oracle Show

Tom Warren — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:27:44 +0000

Microsoft crashed an Oracle seminar for 300 customers and developers in Seattle this week, with members of the Exchange team dropping by the event with an espresso cart to hand out free drinks. ... Read more...

Windows XP Update Crashes Some PCs

Steven Parker — Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:58:44 +0000

Thanks Bink for this one. Some Windows XP users are having trouble installing the operating system's first service pack, bulging with bug fixes and updated drivers--and are judging the cure worse than the... Read more...

Air traffic control system crashes again

Thu, 11 Apr 2002 03:26:51 +0000

Thousands of travellers were delayed in the UK this morning after a key air traffic control system failed for the second time in two weeks. The Flight Data Processing System (FDPS) at... Read more...

If 3DMark 2001SE Crashes On Advanced Pixel Shader Test...

Steven Parker — Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:27:56 +0000

then you probably run it on an ATI Radeon card. The crash seems to be related to an undefined 8bit stencil buffer call in the drivers. Thanks Warp2search for the heads up. There... Read more...

Bill Gates: 'My computer crashes too'

Tue, 11 Dec 2001 01:59:20 +0000

My good friend Kheldar pointed me to this article on the BBC, where CBBC Newsround Press Pack reporter, 15-year-old Sarah Laughton got to interview the man himself. Bill Gates, the world's richest man and... Read more...