unexpected shutdown BSOD

pain55 said:

Forgive me, I'm not very good with computer hardware, but how do you exactly calibrate a battery?

And, yes I'll try some of the other tests. Thanks for help :)

In your original post here:
https://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/109513-unexpected-shutdown.html

Slurp812 offered this in post #26:

Is there a re-calibrate feature for the battery in the bios? If there is, run it. It may take quite some time (hours) to complete. but it seems to me the battery is falling on its face...

My post #27:

If there isn't a feature in the bios, I did offer a way to re-calibrate back at the bottom of post #19.

Go there and follow the instructions.


In this thread CJS...aka...Capt. Jack Sparrow offered a battery stress test at post #13
Try all three in that order.

pain55 said:

zigzag3143 said:

You can also do a search for *.DMP
Ken

Do I add the asterisk before .DMP whilst searching?

And I just remembered a couple of days ago, I logged onto Windows and in the action center there was a notification saying that a memory dump had been created or something. Now, I vaguely remember the dump being located in the AppData, do you know where dumps are located in AppData?

Thanks. :)

Yes type it just as zigzag has it, the asterisk tells search to look for all files no matter were they may be located with the .DMP extension.

On my system it is at...C:\Users\enter your user name\AppData
If one was created it will be there.

And according to Carl it would be better if you went back and changed Kernel dump to mini in your settings.
See your post above #9.

You are welcome. You can also try Avast AV; it works well with Win 7. For troubleshooting though, most of us recommend MSE. If you get another BSOD, please upload the dump file and one of us will take a look.

To change your start up programs, run msconfig. Click on the Startup tab and uncheck the programs you do not need at startup.

Hope this helps. :)

Been busy with family

Take your time, family comes first.

Someone once told me that, we'll be here.



Hi Carl!

Thoughts and prayers....Steve

Your welcome, and to mention...Your post count is climbing nicely......

I am looking at your startups now. As far as I'm concerned you could un-tick every one, but that VTTimer. I'm still unsure what that does.

Here's an old, and venerable site:
Windows startup programs. What are they? Are they required? How can I disable them?

It should explain everything.

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pain55 said:

CarlTR6 said:

You are welcome. You can also try Avast AV; it works well with Win 7. For troubleshooting though, most of us recommend MSE. If you get another BSOD, please upload the dump file and one of us will take a look.

To change your start up programs, run msconfig. Click on the Startup tab and uncheck the programs you do not need at startup.

Hope this helps. :)

Thanks for help once again. :)

Firstly, the problem is, when my laptop turns off unexpectedly, there is no BSOD

Secondly, here is a screenshot of startup programs, and I wonder if you can help me untick the ones i don't need:

I agree with Steve, You can untick everyone of those that show in the screenshot except the timer. I have no idea what the program is. Keep in mind that I could not scroll down the list and see what is below the screenshot.

Anak said:

Been busy with family

Take your time, family comes first.

Someone once told me that, we'll be here.



Hi Carl!

Thoughts and prayers....Steve

Thank you very much, Steve. :)

CarlTR6 said:

Keep in mind that I could not scroll down the list and see what is below the screenshot.

Great minds think alike..

CarlTR6 said:

Thank you very much, Steve. :)

Your welcome. :)

CarlTR6 said:

You can untick everyone of those that show in the screenshot except the timer. I have no idea what the program is.

After some research...
VIA, and S3G (both video moguls) deemed it necessary to include this program to help in all types of video display.

Best advice...It can be disabled at startup But, Do not un-install it as many programs depend on this .exe file. This includes your monitor display.

So if you un-install it, the next time you go to start your machine or even re-start.
I still have to verify this:
It may look like it is booting okay. But, your monitor will not display the OS.
What is vttimer.exe? - vttimer explanation.