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03-01-2008
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Stop and Restart
Hey guys,
This has been happening to me for a while and I've been wanting to know what the hell is going on and how I can fix it. My computer occasionally restarts randomly or even just stops. Do you know what could cause this? It gets really annoying sometimes. |
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03-01-2008
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Could be quite a few things. Likely either your PSU is unstable, or a component (such as your CPU), is overheating. Monitor your system's temperatures and if they're abnormally high during the freeze/shut down then you've found your problem.
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"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." -Thomas Jefferson
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03-01-2008
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how can I tell the temperature of my CPU and my PSU?
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03-01-2008
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Eh, you can't really check your PSU's temperature from within Window's as far as I'm aware. I wasn't suggesting that your PSU was overheating anyhow, just unstable.
There are quite a few applications you can use to check your CPU's temperature. Your BIOS Speedfan Motherboard Monitor HMonitor SensorView CPUCool I think some of the BurnInTest applications monitor temperatures and Everest might as well. The list could go on forever. Go use a search engine and use what you care to.
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Where could I find some of these applications?
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"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." -Thomas Jefferson
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Ok I got CPUCool...now how do I read the readings its getting?
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03-01-2008
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What do you mean how do you read them?
What does it report your CPU's temperature to be?
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"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." -Thomas Jefferson
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03-01-2008
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This is all the temperatures or this is what shows up.
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03-01-2008
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Your temperatures appear to be fine although I'm sure that reading is probably one that was taken during very low load.
What are you usually doing during the time that your PC freezes/reboots?
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"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." -Thomas Jefferson
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03-01-2008
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the usual..I have my media player running, my Browser...a couple of windows...with files...Skype, MSN...the usual...nothing out of the ordinary. And before I was missing a couple of .dlls and I thought that was the case. But it appears that it isn't. Before it was more often. But now it only happens once every week or so...sometimes once every three days. Is there a software out there that might be able to gather disgnostics to see what might be the problem?
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03-01-2008
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You can check the Event Viewer.
Start>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Event Viewer
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"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." -Thomas Jefferson
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03-02-2008
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I got this error report this morning...http://wer.microsoft.com/responses/R...7-abed03a27b05
Not sure if it will come up for you...it said it was a "Stop Error" Caused by a Device Driver. Do you know what Device Driver it is? |
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03-02-2008
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Look in the directory C:\Windows\Minidump for a .dmp file and post the latest one (or few). If that directory doesn't exists, search your HDD for a .dmp file.
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"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." -Thomas Jefferson
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03-02-2008
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Your computer is restarting because by default when windows encounters a system error it will log the error and automatically restart, if you turn off automatic restart you will get a BSOD (blue screen of death) which will tell you a generic description of your error. You should have quite a few minidumps if you have had this problem for a while, post your minidumps and we should be able to tell you what is causing the problem.
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03-03-2008
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Here are all 4 of the Minidumps I have in that file.
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03-03-2008
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Try uninstalling AVG and see if it clears up.
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"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." -Thomas Jefferson
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#18
03-03-2008
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But then I won't have a Anti-Virus
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03-03-2008
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Eh, if it is causing your system to lock up and/or crash isn't it worth getting a different AV?
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"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." -Thomas Jefferson
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#20
03-03-2008
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Ok, but if it is AVG then what do you reccomend as my new AV?
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