Hello,
I have been experiencing off-and-on hang-ups and BSODs on my HTPC over the past few weeks. I initially noticed the problem after the computer went into standby mode (either I'd put the computer into standby or it would go into standby after the set amount of time had elapsed) and when I returned to the computer, the power indicator was lit (i.e. out of standby) but the screen was blank and the computer was unresponsive. Sometimes, I'd find that the computer had rebooted itself while it was unattended and I'd see the "unexpected shutdown" error message. I changed my power settings to always on, but I'd still occasionally get the unexpected shutdown messages. Most recently, I've been getting more and more BSODs: during start-up or when coming out of standby, sometimes it would start up fully but within a few minutes, I'd get a BSOD, sometimes a BSOD loop and I'd just shutdown and walk away.
I've dabbled into looking at the minidumps and event logs. The event log mentioned an issue with Microsoft Security Essentials, so I uninstalled and reinstalled that. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make much sense of the minidumps. One mentioned memory corruption, so I ran the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool and it didn't find any errors. I'm currently running Memtest86+ (so far one pass without errors, but I hear it's good to let it run for several hours).
I ran the SF Diagnostic Tool and attached the results. I did have to remove the memory.dmp file from the ZIP in order to meet the max file size for attachments. Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer.
Mike
EDIT: System specs in profile
I have been experiencing off-and-on hang-ups and BSODs on my HTPC over the past few weeks. I initially noticed the problem after the computer went into standby mode (either I'd put the computer into standby or it would go into standby after the set amount of time had elapsed) and when I returned to the computer, the power indicator was lit (i.e. out of standby) but the screen was blank and the computer was unresponsive. Sometimes, I'd find that the computer had rebooted itself while it was unattended and I'd see the "unexpected shutdown" error message. I changed my power settings to always on, but I'd still occasionally get the unexpected shutdown messages. Most recently, I've been getting more and more BSODs: during start-up or when coming out of standby, sometimes it would start up fully but within a few minutes, I'd get a BSOD, sometimes a BSOD loop and I'd just shutdown and walk away.
I've dabbled into looking at the minidumps and event logs. The event log mentioned an issue with Microsoft Security Essentials, so I uninstalled and reinstalled that. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make much sense of the minidumps. One mentioned memory corruption, so I ran the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool and it didn't find any errors. I'm currently running Memtest86+ (so far one pass without errors, but I hear it's good to let it run for several hours).
I ran the SF Diagnostic Tool and attached the results. I did have to remove the memory.dmp file from the ZIP in order to meet the max file size for attachments. Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer.
Mike
EDIT: System specs in profile
My Computer
At a glance
Win7 Professional 64-bitIntel Core2Duo E7500 2.93 GHzCorsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5C 4GB XMS2 PC2-6400 ...Onboard
- OS
- Win7 Professional 64-bit
- CPU
- Intel Core2Duo E7500 2.93 GHz
- Motherboard
- ASUS P5N7A-VM LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 9300/nForce 730
- Memory
- Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5C 4GB XMS2 PC2-6400 800Mhz
- Graphics Card(s)
- Onboard
- Sound Card
- Onboard
- Hard Drives
- Western Digital 1 TB Caviar Green SATA WD10EADS
- PSU
- Cooler Master eXtreme 460W ATX 12V RS460-PMSRA3
- Case
- nMEDIAPC 5000B Micro ATX
