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Random Reboots (No BSOD's)
So I've recently installed Windows 7 Professional and am now getting random computer restarts every so often, and the computer will lock up on reboot and restart itself. I have resorted to only 'Sleep'ing the computer when I leave because it's too annoying to have to deal with 15 minutes of reboots just to get the computer up and running.
My User Profile has a spec's of my computer, the only thing changed in the BIOS is Gigabyte has a "CPU 'Speed'" setting that allows for Standard, Turbo, or Extreme and mine is set at Turbo. All it does is allow the CPU to overclock itself slightly if it is strained a lot and needs a little extra oomph. I don't do CPU heavy stuff a lot (games, internet, no rendering or huge mathematical equations or anything) so I don't think that would have any effect. The second thing is my RAM on NewEgg says it is 7-7-7-18 @ 1.5v so i changed the timing in the BIOS to 7-7-7-18 and left the voltage at the factory BIOS setting of 1.5v. I have USB mouse and keyboard support enabled but other than that everything in my BIOS is factory settings.
So the problem again, is that the computer will lock up when it's booting, on the 'Starting Windows' screen always and within 2-3 seconds of the exact same point all the time. I just took my computer apart, dusted it out, checked all the connections, unseated all the RAM and video card, mixed the RAM up and made sure the card was seated well and rechecked all the power and cable connections and the same problem persists. I plugged the monitor into the other video card slot as well. Video card is in the PCI slot closest to the CPU.
EDIT: This has yet to happen when I have been using the computer, it will always happen when I am downstairs, playing XBOX (other monitor input) or AFK somewhere and have been away from the computer or not using it for over 10 minutes, which leads me to believe it is something with the system wanting to sleep/shutdown/something. Hard drive is set to never power off, monitor is set to power off after 10 minutes.
I changed my power settings to say 'Don't restart automatically' because I heard that way I can see BSOD's but I've yet to see one, and whenever I get this error the computer will automatically restart.
Event Viewer says my problem is a Kernel-Power error (Event 41). Looking through Event Viewer at the 'Criticals' and 'Errors' the only common thing I see is that when the 'Error' tells me what time the 'Critical' occurred, there is always a Service Control Manager event with 'The Disk Defragmenter service entered the running state' and ~8 seconds later is when the Error said the computer was unexpectedly shut down.
There are a very few HAL Error's (Event ID 12) that say 'The platform firmware has corrupted memory across the previous system power transition. Please check for updated firmware for your system.'
From the most recent boot log (when the computer finally booted tonight):
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\vga.sys
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\srv.sys
those were the only things that did not load, i've heard that NDProxy is network disagreements between hardware/drivers but I've checked the device manager and it says there is nothing wrong and it only shows my wireless card and onboard card.
I can't find the minidump files anywhere, not sure if there is something important I'm supposed to do to get those but I can't.
I have the latest VGA drivers, Windows says it's up to date, mouse and keyboard both have drivers, wireless card has drivers, audio has drivers; all the hardware I have is current in drivers (downloaded the newest ones when I reformatted a few days ago).
Any, any, any, any help is appreciated. I can provide any information that you need, I just don't know off the bat what I need to provide.