Is it a laptop? What's the make and model?

it's a dell inspiron 510m

There is a large rectangular eject button on the side of your CD/DVD drive. The following illustrated Dell article shows you how to remove it:

http://support.euro.dell.com/support...des.htm#999869

ah thank you... well i just checked it (not putting any solution or liquid on it) and it appears to be fine and the connectors look normal.

Error message: STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=293078&sd=RMVP


Also your log attachment was only the title lines. Make sure you copied/pasted the entire log. It should be rather long.

obtain and install the most current driver for your video adapter

how would i do that?

http://support.dell.com/support/down...&os=WW1&osl=EN

i updated the video adapter i think.. but the BSOD still happens

Have you been able to get a full dump log?

does this one look better?