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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Automatic Backup of Open Google Chrome Tabs Upon Crash
Are there any chrome extensions or scripts out there that periodically saves your open tabs, even upon a crash?
If not, would it be possible to make an autoIt script to do so?
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My SSD stopped working as it ends up in blue death right after windows 7 launches, how can I reset it for new windows install?
As I mentioned in the title my SSD suddenly started to fail as after launching Windows 7 it goes straight to completely idle and after a few minutes it goes to blue death and restarts. I have an ...
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Identifying Point of Hardware Failure in Machine
I inherited a machine (specs unknown) which I formatted and installed Windows 2008 Server on, plus some ASP.NET (WCF) services, back in March. All went well, until today, the machine randomly died.
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Computer BSODing, unsure why
My computer infrequently and seemingly randomly goes into BSODs, I'm having a very hard time tracking down the case.
I've uploaded the dmp here and was hoping someone could help out, I'm literally ...
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After hard drive died, DVD drive isn't recognized anymore
My computer was running Vista until my hard drive crashed, so I bought a new 2TB internal SATA HDD.
And now my DVD drive isn't being recongized by my BIOS, but my new 2TB HDD is. I think it has to do ...
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How do I diagnose casual crashes of Firefox launched via Selenium?
The environment is as follows:
Windows Server Enterprise 2003 R2 SP2 x64
Selenium RC v 1.0.1
Firefox v3.6.28
So, I run the selenium server and launch some tests remotely using it. At some moment I ...
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Word 2010 creates multiple processes… sometimes
I've run into a strange behavior when I migrated our users from Office 2007 / Vista to Office 2010 / Windows 7 (all 32-bit). They use a web based document management system called NetDocuments which ...
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Very slow computer; strange console messages
I have an iMac running OS X and since yesterday my processor has been working hard for no particular reason. The computer hangs for a few minutes, then I can work again, then it hangs, etc.
Here are ...
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aswSP.SYS BSOD if I start Process Monitor
I'm trying to use Process Monitor but I get a BSOD saying aswSP.SYS crashed.
aswSP.SYS is Avast! antivirus self protection system driver file.
Do you know why do I get this BSOD and more importantly ...
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UEFI Crashing When Trying to Enter BIOS
I have a AMD FX8150 Processor in a ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Motherboard with (4) 4GB PNY DDR3 1866 Memory for a total of 16GB. I also have (2) Sapphire 6870 1GB GDDR5 PCI E 2.1 X16 Video Cards that I am ...
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Computer blue screens then restarts unsuccessfully
My computer has always had this problem but lately its gotten a bit more frequent.
While running at seemingly random times the computer goes into a bluescreen and before it has a chance to make any ...
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Adobe Flash Player causes the computer to crash
I have a very weird problem playing videos with Flash Player 11 and Firefox 12 in Windows 7. Seemingly randomly, after a few videos, the whole screen just goes black and the computer stops responding ...
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Dell E6320 crashes with docking station
I have a Dell E6320 (i7 with 4GB mem, Win 7 Prof 32bit) that I use with three different Dell docking stations (model PR02X). The notebook frequently crashes when connected to a docking station. When ...
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Windows 7 Blue Screen caused by hal.dll
I have a Windows 7 home edition x64 computer that runs 24/7 as it runs Windows Media center on multiple extenders I have through out the house. Recently I have been getting more frequent blue screens ...
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bluescreen of death now system crashes all the time
yesturday i had a BSOD on my windows 7 machine
it did a crash dump and when it restarted it couldnt find and bootable hardware
i restarted again and it started windows 7 but it seems that the crash ...
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Old Application crashs when clicking on File Open, File Save or File SaveAs
I have an old (10 year old) application which was used in Windows XP before.
This application is closed source so I am not able to fix it by using the source code.
Now I we want to use it in Win7.
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Windows XP Explorer crash
I have been experiencing very frustrating errors from Windows XP for the last few months, and cannot pin down what's causing the problem. A few times a day, seemingly at random intervals, most of the ...
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Why picture viewers crash when open a not very large file?
I use this command create a QR code:
$ yes 1 | head -c 1000 | qrencode -s 100 -o qr.png
The size of qr.png is not very large.
$ ls -lh qr.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kev kev 251K May 9 14:51 qr.png
When ...
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explorer.exe memory could not be “written”
When I open Explorer after a few minutes I get an error message:
I have tried to run chkdsk /r /f, sfc /scannow and CCleaner but the problem remains.
Also I have replaced the RAM but this is also ...
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How do I troubleshoot a “Internal .NET runtime error” (related to VS 2010 crash)
My Visual Studio has started crashing every time I open certain solutions. It tells me "sorry but VS 2010 has encountered an error etc" and then logs this event in the event log:
Application: ...
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Deleting buffalo ministation caused my window 7 to crash
When I deleted the programs related to the buffalo ministation my windows 7 computer crashed. I used the system repair disc and then I ran the system repair, system restore, system image recovery, ...
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BSOD 0x000000f4(Probably caused by : wininit.exe)
I have BSOD with 0x000000f4 code. It appears when system is not loaded at all.
No new hardware where intalled. Only nvidia drivers where updated 3 days ago and they are up to date for now(version ...
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Program crash in Win7/X64 related to filenames with % in them
For a while now I've had this reproducible error:
If I try to open any file (so regardless of its extension) that has a % in its name, regardless of the method of opening (click on it in Explorer, ...
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Conkeror crashed, where is traceback?
Conkeror crashed, when i was browsing http://pypi.python.org. My session wasn't saved and now i don't know how to find the problem to file a bug report. Can i find the error logs or backtrace ...
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Why do some games randomly turn my screen a random solid color?
When playing some games my computer will randomly have an error that I cannot fix without turning it off and back on again. The screen changes to one solid color, which varies (off the top of my head ...
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ATI 6770 random crashes and dots
So I got my other PC working (custom build) and installed Windows 7. I then install the latest drivers from ATI/AMD. When I reboot I see random dots and got random crashes. I also tried a older driver ...
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Windows XP only loads in VGA mode, and crashes when raising resolution
My kid's computer (Windows XP, SP3) started to (what appears to be) crash on boot.
It will only boot in Safe or VGA mode, and if I try to raise the resolution from 640x480 it just reboots itself, and ...
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Black screen crash while using 3d applications
This is my PC specs:
An HP a6540d
E2200 CPU
2 x 1 GB ram sticks (PC2-6400 DDR2)
250W stock PSU
9500 GT graphics card
Windows Vista Home Basic 32-bit SP1
At random intervals while playing games, ...
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Computer Freezes with “Bugcheck 0” on Windows 7. How do I figure out why?
After about 10 minutes of running, my computer will hang, exhibiting the following symptoms:
Both monitors act as if there is no image being sent to them (on, but blacked out)
The CAPS Lock key on ...
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Computer Slows to crawl after Event Id 3, some issue with Raid Port 0
Recently my computer randomly hangs, crashes and slows down at night, when I click on something when I wake up the computer just doesn't respond and shows the loading thing for my cursor.
Today, I ...
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When gaming computer freezes with a blank screen and a buzzing sound
I have a problem with random freezes when playing games. Sometimes it's fine for hours, other times it dosn't last even one. I tried googling around and I found recomendations to update my graphics ...
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Computer Freezes Up With Vertial Lines Across Screen and Audio Spazz
Here is a (terrible) photo (angled looking down) of the stripes:
Notice the purplish vertical stripes that appear evenly about 1/10 of the time.
My computer is randomly freezing up and showing lines ...
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Can I suppress error reporting dialog boxes that prevent my crashed console app from closing?
I have a windows console app that hosts a WCF service and also transcodes video using DirectShow. I use a great little app called Restart on Crash which reliably detects when a process has exited and ...
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Java works under Firefox but not under Internet Explorer
Java works under Firefox and Chrome but not under IE.
Here's what I tried (the advice normally given on forums):
Java applet activated in tools -> internet options -> security tab -> personnalise ...
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Vertical lines on LCD and all computer text scrambled
A few days ago, my system was working fine, but lately my home electricity has been flutuating many times in a day. Now, my computer has stopped working properly. Those problems happen:
When I play ...
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graphics card issue?
I have a simple graphics card in a business system which everything runs fine for about a week but then I'll get problems where the screens will flicker and I'll get multiple cursors and then the ...
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How can I fix my WRT54GL's constant crashing?
I have a Linksys WRT54GL wireless router (the old blue-and-black) whose underside indicates it is Version 2. I've noticed that, on wireless mode, if I am on a Skype call or in a Google Hangout, the ...
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Is the Linux (Fedora/Gnome) desktop limited in total resolution?
I finally found a low-power graphics card with four outputs capable of driving 2560x1440 monitors. And it mostly works, except for one important thing: in Fedora 16 (using the standard Gnome ...
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Where does windows 7 put files in emergency [closed]
When windows 7 unexpectantly crashes where would windows put files that were not saved?
Thanks.
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Very infrequent Excel crash
Have 1 user who keeps experiencing an Excel crash when sorting data.
It is very infrequent and as of yet i've not done any serious troubleshooting, just an Office repair.
Event log reports the ...
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Can hardware get damaged from restarting a computer too often? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Will restarting the computer a lot (about 10 times in 2 minutes) damage the motherboard?
I'm always installing new programs and testing new operating systems on my ...
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ftdi_open() of ftdi_sio v1.4.3 crash at _spin_lock_irqsave
i'm working on an sms related program using a ftdichip modem in gentoo-2.6.30 with ftdi_sio driver v1.4.3.
But i'm running into a weird situation now:
when OS starts up, my program will try to open ...
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Weird NVIDIA graphic card issue
I have Nvidia 460 gtx (Cyclone OC, 768 MB) graphic card and about 6 months ago it started to randomly crash and it kept crashing until I installed different drivers (usually downgraded back to 275.33) ...
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Solution for PC crash after modifications by TUNE-UP?
I experienced that after either making modifications offered by Tune-up Utilities OR making registry-key erases offered by Ccleaner, my computer crashes when awakened from standby.
However I restored ...
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GPU testing tool?
I'm looking for a tool that perform different operations on a graphic card in order to check for any problem or glitch.
I had a nasty freeze / crash problem with some games recently. At best I have a ...
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Best tool to investigate computer instability?
My computer is subject to chronic (that is, it happens every few months) instability, which manifests itself in the form of heavy graphical glitches, GPU driver failures, distorted sound, network ...
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Why do applications “need to close” or “stop working”, and what can I do about it?
While I use a application, the following error message appears (depending on the version of Windows):
Windows XP
[application name] has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for ...
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The igxprd32 display driver has stopped working normally
I have a 32-bit WinXP machine with NO GPU, and 4GB of RAM. Recently, I started playing Spiral Knights, which caused my computer to BSOD once every couple hours.
Microsoft suggested updating my USB ...
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Hard Drive space not available when switching from Linux install back to Windows
About 6 months ago, I installed Ubuntu on my desktop onto a 2TB harddrive. After a while, I decided I would rather switch back to Windows. So I took my Win7 installation disk, popped it in and started ...
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Why Firefox crashes using Google
My Firefox always crashes when using Google (search / mail). Tried uninstalling plugins, deleting and installing Firefox again but nothing helps. Any ideas?
