solution for frequent BSOD on MBP under W7, WXP boot camped
caution - tested on MBP 17 2.93 with nforce chipset against W7 x32 pro, W7 x64 pro, WXP 32 with bootcamp 2.x - 4.0 in any combinations
sympthoms - fresh installed Windows runs fine, immediately after installing bootcamp components begin to BSOD with different messages, explorer relaunches, very unstable, unpredictable, mostly can not work under network and/or hard drive load. Usually can not istall windows updates becoase of BSOD in process - but YMMW.
Found solution:
immediately after installing bootcamp components go to device manager, find and disable nVidia System Management Controller in system devices section.
Side effects not found
Fun control works as usual
No need to modify registry on nVidia drivers, no need to disable CPU/GPU stepping.
Not tested runtime on battery power.
Question is more of asking for statistics - if anyone would try, I'd like to know how it goes.
I suppose that similar approach would help on other models - mean not based on nVidia chipsets. There surely are SMC unit of some manufacturer - try to disable it.
Yes it is helpful and useful thing under Mac OS - but it looks like Windows just doesn't know what to do with SMC
2-nd question - if any can provide me a brief info on SMC under Windows functionality, it'll be of great help.
ps. If yours carma is really bad and it does not help - roll back drivers on network and all you can in System device section to microsoft ones.
MacBook Pro, Windows 7