Such crashes often involve program errors, freezing up of the program or the entire operating system or malfunctioning hardware like broken hard disk drives. A crash might occur at random or may have a root cause.
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Mac crash report info - what can I learn from it?
My Mac (MacBook Pro, 10.7.3 OS) is crashing a couple of times a day. I started this behaviour just recently, and for no apparent reason. I've done a disk check and it all seems fine. When it crashes, ...
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Can append only NTFS files become corrupted if power goes out?
NTFS journals metadata so the file system itself doesn't corrupt if the machine goes down. I read this is not the case for file data itself. But what if the data is only appended at the end of the ...
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Random crashes and beeps
Lately I've been hearing some beeps from my computer speaker. Usually when playing games.
The beeps are like beep beep beep (3 short beeps) and repeated 3 times.
To be clear:
beep beep beep ... beep ...
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Windows Vista crashes, one of the fans might not be working
My computer has been crashing lately so I did a test with SpeedFan. Here's a screendump.
This isn't telling me much except that one of the fans might not be working. The picture is taking no other ...
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facebook keeps freezing Chrome and Windows
Hı, everyone. I am a Windows 7 and Chrome user.
Lately (since past few months) my Chrome has been freezing, taking down whole operating system with it, leaving resetting the computer the only ...
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Windows Media Center crashes when I try to add extender
I want to use my new Xbox 360 as an extender to my computer using windows media center, with my windows 7 computer. Every time I type in an extender key, I get an error message that Media Center has ...
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How to determine why Win7 machine is crashing?
When my Windows 7 machine crashes, I can't find any information in the event logs that can help me track down the problem. Is there a setting I can turn on to log more information so I can capture the ...
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Apache Tomcat 6.0.29 startup causing Win XP SP3 reboot
Some of our Windows XP Developer machines die (black screen - no ping) when starting up Tomcat from a console. This only happens if the Tomcat debug console window is displayed (not minimised). When ...
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Hard crash when using bluetooth headset on MacBook Pro and Lion 10.7.2
I recently picked up a bluetooth headset (Motorola S10-HD) and started using it with my MacBook Pro (17" purchased new in 2010) running Lion 10.7.2.
Here's what works - stereo audio:
iTunes
Spotify
...
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Why do I lose my cookies when Internet Explorer is not shut down correctly?
I'm using Internet Explorer 9 in a "normal" way, i.e. not doing InPrivate browsing, not having it configured to delete cookies on exit etc.
If Internet Explorer is open when my computer shuts down ...
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Computer crashed, now OpenGL crashes the computer and other things don't work
My computer crashed yesterday randomly after a update, so I restarted the computer and when I got to the login screen, I noticed the resolution had changed, which usually indicates that something ...
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GPU Driver Crash
I have recently bought a XFX Radeon HD 6570 GPU for my custom built computer. Everything works fine, except my GPU. When I try to play games, such as Skyrim or Portal 2, it crashes. For example, I can ...
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Computer crash Windows vista
I've been having problems with my computer crashing for about 5 days now. Before that nothing. Its happened the most when i've been playing CoD MW3 when my screen suddenly loses the connection to the ...
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PC version of Nook software needs to restart after coming out of sleep mode
I am running Nook for PC v. 2.5.5.9347 (local software only, not the tablet) under Windows 7. It seems to work fine, but if I shut the lid on my laptop, and later open it up again, Nook puts up ...
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re-downloading windows 7 only having my cd key [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I reinstall Windows 7 if I lost my installation DVD?
I recently had a hard-drive failure and had to get it replaced. Unfortunately this was the hard-drive that ...
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How is the computer able to save things before it crashes?
I was under the impression that when a computer has crashed, something went wrong and it can't perform anymore.
I was wondering how is the computer able to save things before it crashes?
Is the ...
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Computer keep crashing when starting 3D applications / games
I've noticed this serious problem days ago when I was playing Star Trek Online. When playing, I switched out of the game to check IRC msgs. When I switched back, I only saw the game interface less ...
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Gigabyte P67A-UD5 with Asus GTS450 on x16 slot -> crash
When I first got this card, it was on the x16 slot of the motherboard. DirectX was unstable and nvidia driver was crashing in no particular circumstances. I realized that I had no such issue on the x8 ...
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Ubuntu Guest on Virtual Box keeps crashing
Hi I have a Windows 7 Host, with following specs
4GB RAM
i3 processor
500GB HD
(any other detail required? If so please ask.)
I have Virtual Box v3.2.12
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on Virtual Box ...
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Skype is getting crashed even after removing the shared.xml
I am also facing the same problem. It crashed even after removing the shared.xml. I tried all possible ways like re-start the machine, re-install the application etc. etc. But, nothing helped. If ...
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Snow Leopard keeps crashing
How can I diagnose the following issue -- Basically every few hours SL on my 2010 MBP "crashes". The following is what I mean by that
UI is somewhat responsive, I can click on windows. Clicking in ...
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What if I have used BitLocker and my computer crashes?
Just read Ten Things To Do To Secure An Important Persons Computer and it talks, among other things, about using BitLocker (or TrueCrypt) to encrypt your hard-drive.
I have always thought that that ...
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Lost a Gnote in Fedora crash
During a recent crash of my Fedora system, I lost very important notes in a gnote which was open just before the crash. Now after reboot, that note number is not there and another blank empty note ...
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Windows Explorer crashes when loading a folder. That folder is my desktop
I was playing Bastion in windowed mode. One of the controls is right clicking in the general direction you want projectiles to fly. Needless to say, sometimes I right clicked on the desktop ...
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Mac crashing with black screen on XCode install + random other times
I have a Macbook Pro bought over a year ago without extended warranty.
Lately it has started crashing as follows - the screen goes black.
The last note of the music (if playing, radio or iTunes) ...
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Windows BSOD Stop: 0x000000F4 [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows 7 64bit STOP Error Code 0x000000F4
This is a brand new system, it was literally just built two days ago. I had installed it, moved my users directory to a second ...
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Can graphics driver cause low level crash on a pc? (frozen screen output) [closed]
I recently installed a beta nvidia graphics card driver and my pc crashes with frozen screen output.
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Debugging CSRSS.EXE Application Error/Crash
For a while now, I have been getting an intermittent crash of SVCHOST.EXE on boot in Windows XP. Because it is intermittent, I cannot reliably reproduce it, nor can I narrow down when it started, and ...
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Crash on startup after intalling Roller Coaster Tycoon in Wine in Ubuntu 11.04
After a seemingly successful install of Roller Coaster Tycoon (the super old one, from the old disk I had from my family's first PC) using Wine 1.2.2 (and Wine 1.3.15) on Ubuntu 11.04, the program ...
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Skype keeps crashing when trying to write a message
Skype keeps crashing when I open it and try to write a message.
It's been getting progressively worse within the past hour. At first it would just crash randomly, but now I just can't send messages, ...
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Full computer freeze with audio stuttering after playing games for a period of time
I've been having a problem with my computer freezing completely when playing games like LA Noire or SW:TOR (yay early access!). Basically, what happens is I will play for around an hour or so ...
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Outputting to TV screen issue. Black bar around screen and crashes on graphic heavy processes
I am running Windows 7 SP1 on an AMD Phenom X4 with a Radeon 6770 1GB graphics card and 8GB RAM.
The computer runs fine until I try to output to my TV instead of computer monitor. I have a persistent ...
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BSOD on boot error c000021a
When I turn my Windows XP Professional PC on it goes past the Windows XP loading screen then I get blue screen of death with the error C000021a the session manager initialization system process ...
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Windows 7 - BSOD STOP 0x000000F4
I have searched pretty extensively for a solution to this issue without resolve, so I was hoping that someone here could help me.
Problem:
After having used my new PC since May of this year, I ...
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Google Chrome crashes when I type in a URL with something already in the bar
Whenever I try to add a / to the end of a URL in Google Chrome the browser crashes and asks if I want to restore it.
It can be anything. Not just the slash. I have no problem when I simply open a ...
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Getting 0xc00000e windows 7 “Boot device inaccessible” after random crashes
I've been having some weird random crashes that I can't seem to locate, and I'm unsure if it's windows or hardware related.
It's a brand new computer and very powerful. I've run into a couple of ...
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5 month old iMac shuts down daily, and e-mail accounts were deleted
Details: The shutdowns occur at random times and are usually preceded by a scrolling gray semi-transparent screen and an alert that the computer is shutting down (courteous at least).
Sometimes if I ...
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Flash 11 crashing Mac browsers?
I run Mac OS X 10.6.8 and Flash 11 in Google Chrome 15.
The process part looks like this:
username 93458 11.4 14.0 2469136 588600 ?? S 2:02AM 5:37.25 /Applications/Google ...
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What could cause this bizarre Lion behavior?
This is a Core i7 MacBook Pro that was upgraded to Lion from Snow Leopard, retaining the legacy FileVault encryption on the home directory.
I've been getting these strange lockups, three or four ...
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I constantly get the error “Windows Explorer has stopped working” [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows Explorer has stopped working?
I know many have seen this before. It has been occurring so much that my PC is nearly unusable. I tried scanning the system through ...
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How to reboot a machine on Remote desktop connection after explorer.exe crash?
i'm stuck at trying to do this after i google a bit and found that people were saying to use ctrl+alt+esc or ctrl+alt+del to turn on the task manager. both didn't work. so now all i have a is blank ...
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Synaptic crash in xfce
I am working an aspire one and I installed xfce on it. I tried installing vlc media player and after that synaptic started crashing. Then I was trying to do things I was reading in posts and unchecked ...
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Sound driver/sound card or something else is crashing everything that uses sound
It isn't the first time this happens. It usually happens after I woke the PC out of hibernate. When i then try to do anything that has to do with sound (like youtube in flash, iTunes, games, ...) it ...
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How do we retrieve data from an unbootable computer?
Guys I'm in a big pinch right now. My computer (32-bit Vista Home Premium sp2) refuses to boot up (it keeps crashing with an error code 0x7b). I don't care about the computer right now but I need to ...
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Java appears to be crashing video output/graphics card?
I don't even know how to phrase the question, so I've had very little luck with any kind of search.
Every now and then at random intervals a few times a month, I'm watching a video on the internet ...
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What happens if a crash happens while an encrypted volume is mounted?
I am using an encrypted truecrypt volume, operating out of word files stored on there.
I would like to know what would happen if the computer crashes while the encrypted volume is mounted? Will it be ...
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Windows Explorer line above command bar [closed]
I've just got a new laptop and am having problems with explorer.exe crashing. I noticed there is an extra line just above the command bar in Windows Explorer as shown below:
I was wondering if this ...
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Dell Precision M6500 crashes, BIOS displays “internal hard drive not found” [closed]
The power cord LED is off.
Turning the laptop off and on again helps.
BIOS version is A07.
Laption is running Windows 7 64-bit.
What could that be?
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Host system resets (crashes) when using VMWare or VirtualBox and 64-bit guest systems
I have been trying to install virtual systems on VMWare for a while now and encountered strange behaviour from my PC.
The behaviour is as follows:
On "automatic" virtualization mode it either ...
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Built new PC but screen randomly turns off
I built a new PC yesterday, with the following specs:
Intel i5 2500k
8GB DDR3 RAM
Gainward GTX570 Phantom
MSI P67A-GD80 (B3) Motherboard
OCZ Agility 3 SSD
The build went fine, and the PC has ...
