crashes

If windows gets a chance to make a crash dump first sometimes you can get lucky with WhoCrashed.....

Out of interest is you HDD a SSD, or a Western Digital Green series drive?

its a Corsair GT SSD

Have you updated it's firmware? I was having trouble with my HTPC crashing that was solved with updating the SSD's , (an OCZ Vertex 3), firmware.

Just a thought....

Cheers,

Tim

thanks to you Tim,, it has been updated;)

just had another crash, while typing a reply on here!!
no minidump.
cause from event viewer was EVENT LOG.
had Firefox running and thats about it.
:confused:

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

I tried that Tim,,
but it seems to be focussed on BSOD's??

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Hey Pedro, apologies in advance if I'm barking up the wrong tree... but when you say hard reset crashes, I assume you mean the machine just reboots at random.

If so are you sure it is not blue screening ? Sometimes it's hard to tell with the speed new systems do things.

Have you turned off the default windows option to Automatically restart on System Failure?
( System Properties > Advanced tab > untick the Auto restart option.)

Like the others , my gut instinct would have me looking at HDD, PSU first then maybe RAM or malware.

The event view in your original post has a lot of event 55's... that usually signifies drive corruption.


With a 1500W PSU.... maybe it's just shutting down to let you know your toast is done. :eek: :p

not being an IT person I wasnt sure what the technical term was,,,:D

it literally just freezes.

and requires a reset button press to restart.

I have unticked said box;)

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

I wasnt sure what the technical term was,,,:D

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Probably depends which technical person you talk to ;)

I am assuming this machine was behaving ok before it started this?

And you said the power supply change didnt correspond with the problem?

Why did you need to change power supply?... wondering if that is related to some other hardware issue?

On the software side, I'd be doing a file system check on the hard drive. Making sure Windows is fully patched and all drivers are up to date, doing a thorough check for nasties and take a close look at what is running at startup.

Depending how frequently it freezes... could you leave it running in safe mode and see if it still freezes? It might give you a hint as to wheteher it's a problem with a driver or startup program - This may work if its freezing every hour or so..but if it freezes once every day or so it's pointless.

Just looking to try and see if it appears to be a software or hardware issue.

Intermittant issues like this are always a pain.

At my place I'd probably throw another hard drive and os into it..and see what happens... not sure if that's an option for you, (That way it's clear whether its the software/ssd or something else.)

NTFS errors = dodgy SSD.

I only have around 5 programs at startup,,

How did you make the leap from my posts to file system problem Aussie?
The SSD is new this year.

its easy enough to load vista on a HDD,,,,
(i keep only enough on C drive to run windows)


this will give me something to do untill the pub opens :)

seen ssd's do that sort of thing if you defrag them... seen some that have died on the spot attempting one

running avira and the full version of malwarebytes is a recipe for trouble as well.

one or the other, not both... the low level drivers dont mix well and will generate file system erros IME