Running programs seem to close by themselves at night


  1. Toddsta
    Posts : 46
    Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
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    Running programs seem to close by themselves at night


    Well, my system has been apparently restarting itself late at night after a period of inactivity...never when I am actively using it.... because I sat down to the computer this morning and Illustrator and Photoshop and my email program were all closed - just windows was up and running.

    I had "unchecked" the "automatically restart" box as is usually suggested, hoping it would show the bsod or dump file.... but my computer still did not show the BSOD on screen like I assumed it would. It just apparently restarts.... no problems shown in/under the Action Center Flag in my system tray.....Any suggestions??? Thanks....

    I will mention that my Asus motherboard has all 6 memory slots filled with 2 gb memory sticks each for 12 gb memory. I've heard that filling all memory slots to motherboard capacity can be troublesome???

    Edit: By the way... I checked for a Mini Dump file under "Windows" and I don't have any listed as of yesterday or today?????

    What to do??

    Intel i7 920
    Asus P6T
    Windows 7 Pro 64bit
    OCZ ram - 6-2gb sticks for a total of 12 gb ram
    Evga Nvidia 8800 gts video
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  3. YakSipper
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    Hey. Well, straight off the bat, the OCZ ram stands out to me. OCZ typically needs manual adjustment of the vdimm and timings inside the bios settings.

    Visit OCZ's site for what they should be in relation to your exact modules and adjust bios accordingly.
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  4. Dwarf
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    Do you have updates set to download and install automatically overnight? Some updates require the system to restart to install themselves correctly.
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  6. Toddsta
    Posts : 46
    Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
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    Ahhhh... I DO have Updates set to install automatically.... that could very well be the issue then...is it good to have it set like that? Thanks good people!

    Re: OCZ ram - I had OCZ techs help me set up the timings when I first got the system going...so I *think* I'm good there...
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