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Help Determining issue: random reboot.
Ok, So. I've tryed a lot. I've looked around a lot. Never found anything that is exactly my problem but here goes...
Set up.
Mobo - Intel DP55KG
Proc -i7 870 @ 2.93
Ram - Originally 8 currently at 4
Vid Card - Asus Matrix GTX285
Monitor - Samsung Syncmaster 23" X2
HDD - Samsung 1.5 TB
Running - Win 7 Ultimate 64bit
Issue - Random reboots with no common factor, however Windows Media Center in any form or any video on the internet can cause it to reboot. It RARELY does it while I'm playing a game. I think only once to date and something else might have been open. Happens a lot listening to music or watching video.
I thought it was heat at first but I am not thinking that now as it gets much hotter playing video games then it does when it is rebooting.
I thought it might be the Syncmaster drivers because I saw a couple errors (The browser service has failed to retrieve the backup list too many times on transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{4C08B9EC-5B4A-49CD-9E24-BFFBE04C1B48}. The backup browser is stopping.) in my event viewer that delt with the extra fine tuning software they come with ... but the issue is still there.
Talked to both Asus (vid card) and intel (mobo+proc) and they said there should be no issue with current drivers and I have updated both... problem is still there.
I think its either a driver for the vidcard or something in 7 or possibly 64bit not liking them. And I suppose I should have said I started there because the most common error around reboot seems to be this (The NVIDIA Display Driver Service service has reported an invalid current state 32.) error. There are also a couple other errors and criticals but they are both more to do with the unexpeded shut down I believe.
Critical - The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.
Error - The previous system shutdown at 6:20:53 PM on 11/12/2009 was unexpected.
I have also Changed out the ram because the intel dude said that the thing will be more stable at 4 then 8 but it still was crashing ... He also said updating the BIOS might help and I've thought that from the begining because so many new builds are fixed with a BIOS flash ...buuuuuut I am not quite comfortable doing that with the thing rebooting for no apparent reason.
It also has done it not playing video and what not but that is the most common reason I can find.
ANY thoughts or tips or other avenues to try would he appreciated.