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Display shuts off, computer will not respond
Hello all,
I'm having a rather strange issue. For some reason, when I turn my computer on, there will be times when I will get past the start-screen, load a few programs, and then my monitor will not show anything. The monitor is still on, but nothing shows. Sometimes, I can hold down the power button (this is a desktop) and the computer will power off, but recently, even that will not do. The turn offs happen at random, so even now, I'm not sure if the computer will shut off on me.
When holding down the power button does not suffice, I resort to pulling out the power cable. When I turn the computer back on, there's the usual "windows did not shut off properly screen" and the options to start in safe mode and etc. I skip past this, and log on again, but no Windows error window pops up. Nothing about a blue screen, nothing about an unexpected shut down. That usually happens with a blue screen, but with this scenario, that does not happen. Thus, there is no minidump file to record these actions.
I've noticed that this happens when I open a particular link, but when I tried opening that link in my laptop, the laptop is fine. I looked in the Event Viewer and found several "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk3\DR3". Not sure if that's any help. I've attached the minidumps but again, I don't think those relate to the errors I had today (March 4, 2012). I also put the performance log in the zip file.
Thanks for everything!