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BSOD only when idle
This has been with me for a long time (can't remember how long) must have been about 2 years now. Just decided to try to solve it.
When I'm using the computer, everything is fine. My video card is pretty old. When playing some games, sometimes the game crashes (and I get a notification about how my graphics sucks), but no BSOD. I haven't really exhaustively tested, but I think I've used it for 10 hours straight without any problems. The problem comes when I leave it alone (10-30 minutes.. I haven't seen it alive beyond 30 minutes of idle), even if its downloading something or running an antivirus scan. I have been able to run a full scan at startup (before windows loads), which took about an hour, with no problems.
I used windows update to install all the latest updates (from windows).
I have hibernate disabled and no screensavers, no standby after x minutes/hours. I do sometimes put it to sleep from time to time and there are usually no problems.
I took a look at the files and the event viewer and decided it must be a problem with the hdd, tried to do the hard drive self test from the bios, it got stuck at 90% and stayed there for over 12 hours then I killed it. chkdsk seems to think the harddrive is fine although I haven't tried running it with the -f option. A memory diagnostics test (through windows) was happy with the memory
I tried leaving it on on safe mode, and it has been on for about 4 hours now (I'll leave it overnight). That is what made me think there must be *some* driver that is problematic, and that it is not directly the hdd or memory that are the culprits here as the event viewer / files attached seem to show
Laptop is HP Pavilion dv1660ca
Is Windows 7 . . .
- x86 (32-bit)
- Original OS was Windows XP.
- Full retail (kinda).. got it from university
- Bought it on October 2006
- OS installation was in july 2009
the perfmon report is in the zip file.
Some useful information from the event viewer:
After the BSOD, there is a "critical" event that is created in the event viewer (after the restart)
Event 41, Kernel Power
BugcheckCode 122
BugcheckParameter1 0xc0450218
BugcheckParameter2 0xc000009d
BugcheckParameter3 0x97608c0
BugcheckParameter4 0x81043000
SleepInProgress false
PowerButtonTimeStamp 0
Sometimes BugcheckParameter2 is 0xc000000e
there are literally hundreds of these that I've collected