A crash (or system crash) is a condition where soft- or hardware ceases to function properly.

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Windows 7 crash when install on SSD

I'm trying to install Windows 7 on an SSD drive but the system crashes after the first restart during install. I've tried different SATA ports and a different brand of SSD drive but still get the same ...
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Laptop crashing and repair won't fix anything

I'm having trouble with my laptop. It's an ASUS running Windows 7. When I tried to start up the laptop earlier today, the screen went black and it took 2+ minutes to even load the blue background ...
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On Windows 7 BSOD, hangs and minidump file is never created

The last few weeks I began having occasional incidents of blue screen of death (BSOD). Here is a photograph of the one that occurred on June 12, 2013: As you can see, it says it's "Initializing ...
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Adobe Photoshop CS6 crashes with two videocards

After installing 2nd videocard Adobe Photoshop CS6 crashes with some actions. Only Photoshop crashes, not system. So question is: how to solve this without removing 2nd videocard? I have 4 monitors ...
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Could my CPU be damaged?

This afternoon, I used the tuneup test from the catalyst vision engine control center. It started and my fan was gaining speed, getting to 5000 RPM before my PC instantly shut down. Wondering what ...
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fresh windows installation doesn't work as expected

I have a VAIO laptop which has not been working as expected recently. At first, I had the Blue Screen of Death coming after some minutes of working with Windows and a crash dump. I used to ignore it ...
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Restart degraded RAID array after crash

I've had to (temporary) reduce my RAID5-Array, so that there are four out of five disks available. Things getting worse as my system crashed during write process. After reboot the system wants to ...
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Are these symptoms of hard disk failure?

I've been running Bodhi Linux 2.0 on my laptop for the past half a year or so and lately it was acting up. Firefox would randomly crash with no error message, and then would refuse to start (instead ...
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crash shell: any way to check if a command executed Successfully

I am automating a test using crash package. is there some thing like $? in bash shell, which can be used to check if previous command is executed success fully or not. eg : when command crash> ...
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Laptop crashes when webcam is on

Sequence of actions that cause BSOD: 1. Turn on webcam photo capture in browser (tried in chrome) 2. close the tab while photo capture is still on 3. Receive a BSOD "APC Index Mismatch" This is ...
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All Mac OS X apps crash as opened

After I've reinstalled Mac OS X 10.8 and transfered my back-up folders to my MacBook Pro (late 2011), all Mac OS apps started to crash as I open them. I'm talking about apps like Mail, Safari, ...
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Chrome crashes again and again when i use to load 25k tweets in browser

my issue is when i scroll down, some 20k tweets in a twitter account my chrome gets crashes again and again, but i need to scroll to the end and also the twitter account has 50k tweets. please help me ...
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Adobe Dreamweaver crash on launch: Error 6

Have Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 installed on Windows 8 and first install, it's working properly, but after some time on next launch I get Error: Please uninstall and reinstall the product. Error ...
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Multiple problems on Windows 8 (explorer.exe crashing; file copying stops; multiple instances of Task Manager and Skype)

I've been having some problems on my MSI GX620 running Windows 8. Sometimes when I do something in File Explorer (like press delete to delete file, or right click on a file) the File Explorer window ...
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Diagnose Windows 8 Pro crashes generated by Kernel symbols

My Windows 8 Pro 64-bit crashes randomly at least once per day. The memory dump for that crash says: Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.2.9200.20512 AMD64 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. ...
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Xubuntu using xfce closes session every time without asking

My xfce session closes all the time, without any kind of prompt or message box saying that it will close. The weird thing is that it is almost automatically, I was using VirtualBox without a problem ...
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Computer randomly restarting: mother board or processor?

My computer randomly restarts. Is it more likely my mother board or processor? So, i know which one to RMA first. Windows 7 sp1 64bit. mobo: p8z68 v/gen3 cpu: i7 Times it restarts: randomly ...
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uhttpd crashes when requesting the luci index for the first time

I installed OpenWRT (ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT (Bleeding Edge, r33556)) on my TP-Link Wifi router (TL-WR1043ND) and after getting sshd and some basic stuff running it sat on my desk for a couple weeks and ...
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How to reset Print Spooler when really screwed up [duplicate]

I believe my problems started when I installed a printer with an incorrect driver. Now I have a broken Print Spooler and I cannot interact with anything that has to do with printing. I have to go ...
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ManyCam crashes when I chose a desktop mode

When I try to change the desktop mode, this thing: ManyCam crashes: I have tried re-installing, etc and that doesn't help. Neither does running in UAC admin.
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APPCRASH with mshtml.dll

I recently started getting APPCRASH crash errors. My situation is similar to this question (in that a .dll file causes Windows Desktop Gadgets to crash), but the solution of scanning with MalwareBytes ...
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Flash player keeps crashing in all browsers

Whenever i try to watch a video using flash player the flash player crashes. Sometimes ti playes a couple of second of the video but will crash after them sometimes it just crashes right away. I tried ...
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Viber Desktop keep crashing on my imac

I have installed Viber desktop on my iMac and it was working fine for about 3 days and after that it kept crashing and I have done everything like Restart my computer, uninstall that viber and restart ...
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BSOD 0x124 Help needed

I have a new Computer for 3 weeks now and I get a lot of WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR BSODs. I get these bluescreens randomly every 30 - 50 minutes. Here is the dump from WinDbg: Microsoft (R) Windows ...
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Track down the cause of Windows Error Reporting Service starting

Is it possible to find out the crashing process that causes the following event log message: 7/05/2013 2:58:00 PM - The Windows Error Reporting Service service entered the running state. ...
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Plesk keeps crashing, and I only see this warning

Wed May 01 12:05:42 2013] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `Parallels Panel' does NOT match server name!? The above warning seems to coincide every time Plesk Parallels version 11.0.4 ...
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Word 2003 crashed and I've lost my file

I was working with a document located on USB. Suddenly word 2003 crashed and I've lost my file. only in the folder "recent" there is a trace left by which seems to contain less information. I've tried ...
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Windows 8 freezes/creashes when playing video

My computer crashes sometimes watching movies or playing flash videos on the internet browser (I use Chrome). What happens is while watching a movie I'm starting to hear a buzz and screen disappears, ...
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Excel 2007: Intermittent 0xc0000005 crashes

Hello there SuperUser Hive Mind. We are having an issue at the office I work. One of our users who has a workflow which consists mostly of Excel documents with dynamic formatting and macros which she ...
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Windows 7 crashes if left idle over night

I have my system working absolutely fine for quite a long time , but in recent times I seem to face the problem of it crashing if left idle for long. My first step was to initiate safe mode and see ...
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Where can I find a Mozilla Firefox crash log?

My Mozilla Firefox crashes frequently (and even major updates don't help). I'd like to investigate the problem. Where can I find the log/report files? There seem to be no option to view the actual ...
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Windows7: explorer pseudocrash after login?

Well, since yesterday after I log-in on Windows 7 (x64 Ultimate) I get the desktop as usual, but as soon as I try to interact with it with a click, it turns totally white. The taskbar doesn't ...
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SVN error after server crash

Suddenly, this morning, my webserver (running on EC2 amazon instance ) was not online anymore. So I had to restart apache, mysql and SVN servers. To do so, I used sudo /etc/init.d/svnserve restart ...
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PC crashes after a few minutes of watching video

I have a Dell ST2320L_HDMI monitor and a ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series. The PC itself is a Dell Inspiron 530S. I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium. The Device Manager says my current driver for the ...
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How to install dism through command line in windows 7 by booting from a recovery windows 7 iso in a USB?

Recently I installed a faulty security update (2823324) released by Microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2839011 . My computer is constantly getting blue screen and restarting. I have tried each ...
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Asus Xonar DSX causing freezes

I have an Asus Xonar DSX sound card installed in my system that has been giving me grief lately, and Asus support and Google searches have been no help in figuring out what's wrong with it. The ...
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How can I restart my taskbar?

Occasionally the clock in the notification area of the taskbar stops working. If I hover over it I can see the analog clock view is correct but the digital readout is frozen. Today I tried to hide the ...
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Outlook 2003 crashes with black bars

I have Office 2003 (German version) running on 4 PCs in an office (all in the same network). Since two weeks on three of them Outlook started crashing every day about two or three times. It began on ...
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Black screen and WHEA logger ID 18

My notebook (Acer Aspire 7520) is experiencing black screens (they happen every 20 minutes-1 hour) for which I have to manually reboot it and the system log says (I translated it from my IT log): ...
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Windows 7 PC crashes / stops upon reboot

I have an Hewlett Packard (fairly basic) Windows 7 PC, that crashed (no blue screen, the screen simply went black with no response from any peripherals) and then once the machine is powered off and ...
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Which processes were running yesterday?

We have a production machine that keeps crashing on regular basis. Our staging environments run fine, but when the application is deployed to production, the production machine crashes after two or ...
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PC randomly dies

EDIT: After everything that was done, when we took it back onsite the system crashed within two hours (after being on for a few days straight in the shop) The big guys upstairs decided to go ahead ...
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Windows XP program crash boxes for any user are all shown to Administrators

I have an interesting problem with a Windows XP setup involving "users" with restricted access rights and "Administrators" with full system access. If a program crashes for a user, the standard crash ...
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Win 8 freezing when using flash [duplicate]

My computer crashes sometimes watching movies OR flash videos on the internet, sometimes a bluescreen appear for seconds before the crash. I don't even know how to reproduce the problem. I tried ...
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Word 2013 crashes when I attempt to print

I am having issues with MS Word 2013 crashing when I try to print something at my school. The reason I say only at my school is because it appear to work at my home where I have a HP Deskjet printer. ...
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Can a GPU's memory “die” through overclocking?

I hear people comment about GPU memory/ram "dying" from an overclock. Is this possible? Is there an objective way to tell, besides circumstantial blue screens?
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Linux machine refuse to boot with invalid elf header

Recently, after a power supply crash problem, my linux machine (Centos 5.5 X64) did not boot neither gnome nor shell. On gnome startup it shows this error: /etc/X11/prefdm: line 16: ...
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Cannot launch matlab after crash

I load some DLL I wrote into matlab through loadlibrary() function, however I made a mistake in my DLL such that it cause access violation that eventually crash matlab. After Matlab crashed, I cannot ...
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random freezing / shutdown

Apologies for the length of this question... I built a new system some months ago, retaining only the GPU and power supply from the old system and have been having intermittent issues with it. My ...
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Windows 7 Crashes using nVidia Driver, works fine in Safe Mode or without video driver

Until this morning, and for over a year, my computer worked fine. I have an nVidia GTX 465 card running Windows 7 SP-1. Today, after running about thirty seconds, the screen freezes and I have to ...

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