Hey guys, a few days ago my computer started to boot slower than usual and during games it would crash. Also, one time it would not even post at all. Here is the error description from windows this morning: Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power Date: 1/15/2011 12:11:42 AM Event ID: 41 Task Category: (63) Level: Critical Keywords: (2) User: SYSTEM Computer: LCSMASTER-PC Description: The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly. Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System> <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" /> <EventID>41</EventID> <Version>2</Version> <Level>1</Level> <Task>63</Task> <Opcode>0</Opcode> <Keywords>0x8000000000000002</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-01-15T05:11:42.045618400Z" /> <EventRecordID>168742</EventRecordID> <Correlation /> <Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" /> <Channel>System</Channel> <Computer>LCSMASTER-PC</Computer> <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /> </System> <EventData> <Data Name="BugcheckCode">59</Data> <Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0xc0000005</Data> <Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0xfffff880048b9817</Data> <Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0xfffff880099e3900</Data> <Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0x0</Data> <Data Name="SleepInProgress">false</Data> <Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data> </EventData> </Event> I am running an ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, AMD Phenom II X4 955 OC @ 3.7ghz, 4GB DDR3 1333 ram, XFX 6870, XFX black edition 750w psu I have already taken apart and switched around parts, taken off OC etc. and I am lead to think that it is the ram. Not too long ago I was getting a hypertransport sync flood error on multiple motherboards with nothing the same but these sticks of ram. I had to bump the voltage from 1.5 to 1.6 to stop it. Please tell me if this error message leads to the ram. Thank you!

On 15/01/2011 1:09 AM, jman895 wrote: > Hey guys, a few days ago my computer started to boot slower than usual > and during games it would crash. Also, one time it would not even post > at all. Here is the error description from windows this morning: > > Log Name: System > Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power > Date: 1/15/2011 12:11:42 AM > Event ID: 41 > Task Category: (63) > Level: Critical > Keywords: (2) > User: SYSTEM > Computer: LCSMASTER-PC > Description: > The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error > could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power > unexpectedly. This error just means you must've pressed the reset button to restart the computer. Have you got the kernel dumps turned on and saving to disk? > I am running an ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, AMD Phenom II X4 955 OC @ > 3.7ghz, 4GB DDR3 1333 ram, XFX 6870, XFX black edition 750w psu > I have already taken apart and switched around parts, taken off OC etc. > and I am lead to think that it is the ram. Not too long ago I was > getting a hypertransport sync flood error on multiple motherboards with > nothing the same but these sticks of ram. I had to bump the voltage from > 1.5 to 1.6 to stop it. Please tell me if this error message leads to the > ram. Thank you! If you suspect the RAM, then you should run memtest86+ on it. You can google it. You also get this utility if you have any of the various Linux live-CD installers. Don't trust the Windows 7 memory tester, it's useless. Yousuf Khan

Well the strange thing is I was not at the computer when this happened. I came back to the windows log in screen. Also I ran memtest for 8 hours and 8 passes last night.

Well the strange thing is I was not at the computer when this happened. I came back to the windows log in screen. Also I ran memtest for 8 hours and 8 passes last night. Well, it's possible that it just lost power (somebody kicked the power cord, local power outage, etc.). Regarding, the memtest, if it didn't find anything, then chances are that there is nothing wrong with the memory, and you should start looking elsewhere for your problem. If there was anything wrong with your memory, then memtest would find it really quickly, or not at all. You mentioned a crash during a game. What kind of a crash? Was it an application crash, or a system crash? If you had any crash dumps enabled, this would really help your diagnosis immensely. You can get both system crash dumps and application crash dumps. The system crash dumps are easy to enable, just go into your computer properties, Advanced System Settings, Advanced tab, Startup and Recovery, Settings button, and enable Small memory dump. Applications crash dumps are a bit harder to enable, you should analyse the system crash dumps first. Other things to check are your event logs and look for warnings and errors, during the boot up process.

59 = 0x3B = Bug Check 0x3B: SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION This indicates that an exception happened while executing a routine that transitions from non-privileged code to privileged code. Cause This error has been linked to excessive paged pool usage and may occur due to user-mode graphics drivers crossing over and passing bad data to the kernel code. So update the graphic card driver, too see if this fixes it. If not, please start the Windows Explorer and go to the folder C:\Windows\Minidump. Next, copy the dmp files to your desktop, zip all dmp into 1 zip file and upload the zip file to your public Skydrive [1] folder and post a link here. To see the cause of your slow boot issue, follow my guide [2] to make a boot trace and compress the boot_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1.etl as 7z or RAR and upload it to your Skydrive, too. I take a look at the trace, maybe I see what's wrong with your Windows. André [1] http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/4fc10639-02db-4665-993a-08d865088d65 [2] http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=140247 "A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

So I did stability tests on the video card with MSI Kombustor, memory with memtest, and CPU with prime95. I talked to my IT friend and told him about the freezing while playing games and just recently while closing TS3. Also, my hard drive makes clicking noises and I sent him a sound file. He said that it is most likely the hard drive going. Also, on one of my boots yesterday, an error appeared saying hard disk read error press ctrl+alt+del. Everytime I hit a random key on the keyboard, the hard drive made a loud clicking noise. So for now, I am suspecting the hard drive.

So I did stability tests on the video card with MSI Kombustor, memory with memtest, and CPU with prime95. I talked to my IT friend and told him about the freezing while playing games and just recently while closing TS3. Also, my hard drive makes clicking noises and I sent him a sound file. He said that it is most likely the hard drive going. Also, on one of my boots yesterday, an error appeared saying hard disk read error press ctrl+alt+del. Everytime I hit a random key on the keyboard, the hard drive made a loud clicking noise. So for now, I am suspecting the hard drive. Are you running any kind of a hard disk monitoring program? Such as HDDScan, or HD Sentinel? HDDScan – free HDD test utility with USB flash and RAID support http://hddscan.com/ Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring http://www.hdsentinel.com/ HDDScan is completely free and it gives you a basic idea of anything wrong with your hard disk. HD Sentinel is trialware, but its trial version is good enough to get an initial report. Sentinel gives you a very good summarized report about the health of each of your disks. The problems you need to look at are not just bad sectors, but bad sectors that haven't automatically gotten reallocated by the hard disk, called Pending Sectors. That means that the hard disk has so many bad sectors that it has run out of reserve sectors to move them to.

Also, my hard drive makes clicking noises and I sent him a sound file. He said that it is most likely the hard drive going. Also, on one of my boots yesterday, an error appeared saying hard disk read error press ctrl+alt+del. Everytime I hit a random key on the keyboard, the hard drive made a loud clicking noise. So for now, I am suspecting the hard drive. this can be the cause. Download the diagnostic tool from your HDD manufactures homepage and run the tool."A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/