Hi guys.
I'd been getting an annoying amount of Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) failures/shutdowns for many months now. It was often enough that it annoyed me, but not so often that I had a strong enough a motivation to begin considering stripping everything down and starting fresh (because it would be a big pain-in-the-butt to do so).
I get the "IRQL-not-less-or-equal" error message, which to my understanding is generally an indication of either a bad driver or sometimes a problem with your antivirus.
2-3 days ago, while tinkering for a fix, (I've previously tried updating other drivers, such as my AMD graphics drivers, and that hadn't helped), I updated my Ceton InfiniTV drivers, and I installed something like 8 new Windows Updates that came through. And now, my BSOD frequency has increased to the point where this is no longer "annoying", and has become "unacceptable". I can't live with/ignore this at this point. I have to take action, drastic-or-otherwise.
I'm going to uninstall a couple of programs that are on that I'm no longer using... to see if that helps. If that doesn't, my thought was to possibly change my AntiVirus program, before going with the "nuclear" option (stripping down and starting from scratch). I'm currently using the free version of AVG. Prior to becoming a HTPC user, I was a Norton guy, but I found Norton to be very difficult with some of the "HTPC Things" I wanted to do (particularly port-forwading to set up Remote Potato).
Any HTPC users have an antivirus recommendation for me?
I'd been getting an annoying amount of Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) failures/shutdowns for many months now. It was often enough that it annoyed me, but not so often that I had a strong enough a motivation to begin considering stripping everything down and starting fresh (because it would be a big pain-in-the-butt to do so).
I get the "IRQL-not-less-or-equal" error message, which to my understanding is generally an indication of either a bad driver or sometimes a problem with your antivirus.
2-3 days ago, while tinkering for a fix, (I've previously tried updating other drivers, such as my AMD graphics drivers, and that hadn't helped), I updated my Ceton InfiniTV drivers, and I installed something like 8 new Windows Updates that came through. And now, my BSOD frequency has increased to the point where this is no longer "annoying", and has become "unacceptable". I can't live with/ignore this at this point. I have to take action, drastic-or-otherwise.
I'm going to uninstall a couple of programs that are on that I'm no longer using... to see if that helps. If that doesn't, my thought was to possibly change my AntiVirus program, before going with the "nuclear" option (stripping down and starting from scratch). I'm currently using the free version of AVG. Prior to becoming a HTPC user, I was a Norton guy, but I found Norton to be very difficult with some of the "HTPC Things" I wanted to do (particularly port-forwading to set up Remote Potato).
Any HTPC users have an antivirus recommendation for me?