Every night at 2AM I get blue screen of death...help?!?!?

andrekb

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Hi!!
I have a gateway nv53a laptop with 8 gig onboard(only thing changed from spec) ...every night around 2am(and I mean within 10 minutes before or after) my laptop freezes and I get the blue screen of death. I have to do a hard reboot in order to get back to windows.. when I reboot it tells me something about windows live not fully loading or something to that effect(I usually just click ok and close screen so I cant remember) can anyone help me in telling me what could be wrong with my laptop? Or start me down the path by suggestions on where to start? I know this isnt the most detailed query but I dont really know what to say as this is frustrating and has been going on now for over a month. Please assist and thanks
 

doct3rphil

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Like said, check the event logs (System or Windows), check scheduled tasks, run Malwarebytes.

Try using MSCONFIG to run a clean boot (disable all non Microsoft services, disable all startup items, then reboot) See if that helps, if it does, it's one of those things.