PianoManinSoCal
So far, it's not working.
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[font="verdana, geneva; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.8"]the BSOD appeared and my system rebooted. Admittedly, I had a few other apps open, including Excel. However, that never caused problems before.
Sorry to hear that.
If you are experiencing Blue Screens, that indicates a system driver issue. You can check your event logs in Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Event Viewer. Once open, click on Windows Logs and have a look at what's in System.
System crashes will be logged there and you can find out what driver is associated with that. Also, general system issues will be logged there.
For Blue Screen errors, in particular, look for a Source of BugCheck. It may tell you where a dump file was saved. Then, you can use a viewer like this:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html Armed with that info, you can see if the driver vendor has an update for what had the fault.
I would resolve that issue first before working on other potential issues.
Keith