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HTPC locking up, no crash dump, how to find out reason?
Hi,
I tried searching first but I seem to have trouble finding the proper terms to narrow the search enough... So I just post this...
I put together a HTPC for 24/7 usage (windows media center and iMON remote control, spotify, PowerDVD for Blu-Ray movies). Minimal amount of additional software installed. The problem is it locks up often. The whole Windows 7 goes fully unresponsive (all you can do is power off -> on). It rarely stays responsive for 48 hours. No crash dump is generated. The event log shows nothing special, mainly two error items, one related with errors on Microsoft Security Essentials and the other is Circular Kernel Context Logger session failing to start.
The main question is: what is there to do, is there a program that could monitor which other program seems to halt the system? I'd hate to go through eliminating each and every software/hardware component... The second question is: just in case, does anything below ring any bells what might cause the problem?
Thanks in advance.
- yallu
HARDWARE:
Asus Maximus IV GENE-Z Intel Z68 LGA1155 (temp stays around 39C)
Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-TD 500 PCI Dual Tuner
DeLOCK PCI Express x1
500W MicroATX PSU
Intel Core i3 2100T 2.5 GHz LGA1155 (temp stays around 40C)
Logitech Speaker System Z906 - THX
Samsung CLX-3185N Laser Printer
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit UK
OCZ Vertex 2 - 120 GB 3.5" SSD SATA II (for OS)
Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 3 TB SATA-III (for data)
Antec Fusion Remote Case
Asus BW-12B1LT Blu-ray 12X
Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8 GB Kit
Prodige NanoX Bluetooth Mini Keyboard
INSTALLED PROGRAMS (in addition to W7, as shown in control panel):
7-Zip 9.20 (x64)
Asus AI Suite II (FAN XPert and Sensor only)
Asmedia ASM104x USB 3.0 Host Controller Driver
CCleaner
CyberLink Media Suite
CyberLink PowerDVD 10
Foxit Reader 5.1
Google Chrome
iMON
Intel(R) Network Connections 16.1.53.0
Intel(R) HD Graphics Driver (using CPU's integrated GPU)
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile
Microsoft Security Essentials
Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 - 2010 x86 & x64 Redistributables (all updated latest versions)
Notepad++
PC Tools Firewall Plus 7.0
PlayReady PC Runtime amd64
PuTTY version 0.62
Realtek High Definition Audio Driver
Spotify
Windows Software Development Kit
+ latest Windows 7 updates
AUTOSTARTING PROGRAMS (as reported by msconfig.exe):
Microsoft Security Client
Realtek HD (RAVCpl64.exe -s)
Intel(R) Common User Interface (igfxtray.exe)
Intel(R) Common User Interface (hkcmd.exe)
Intel(R) Common User Interface (igfxpers.exe)
Google Update
Spotify
PC Tools Firewall Plus
iMON
SERVICES (as reported by msconfig.exe, other than MS):
ASUS Com Service
ASUS HM Com Service
ASUS System Control Service
Intel(R) PROSet Monitoring Service
PC Tools Firewall Plus