I recently purchased a Dell Precision m4400 notebook. All was well for a few weeks until out of the “blue” it started blue screening on boot. Safe mode reported some VMM start-up problem, which didn’t really mean much to me (I assumed it was Virtual Memory Manager).
So I did’t what all good developers do, cracked the s#!$% and formatted it. All was well for another few days. Then it started again – this time I was completely sure I hadn’t changed something.
This time, rather than jumping in and reformatting, I decided to try “investigation”.
Long story short, it was an option in the BIOS, on the Virtualistaion tab, “Enable Direct I/O” or something similar. I disabled this and no more bluey 
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