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Hi there. I made the mistake of upgrading to Avast Pro and now have an hourly crash. I uninstalled Avast and went back to the free version, but the crash still happened. Got the cleanup tools for Avast and run them in safe mode, but still no good. Have run the repair from the startup disk and have reinstalled the OS, but still getting the crash. Gone back and formatted all drives and then installed again, but its still there. Thinking now that this may be BIOS related, I've flashed this to the latest version, but it still does it. The PC will just hang for about 2-3 minutes and then blue screen.
Have checked the errors in the event log and the two that keep coming up are WMI and Kernel-EventTracing, although these are not timed with the crash. Usually for the cold reset I have to do afterwards. Although I'm now working round the issue by hard booting before the hour and these errors are still coming up, so they may not be related. Have to shutdown and power up each time to work round this, a restart doesn't work.
OS Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit
MB Asus P8Z68-VLX
8 GB RAM
AMD Radeon 6900
I'm feeling this is more BIOS related as it crashed with a fresh copy of windows with no other software installed. Does anyone have a list of settings that I can check against in the BIOS to see if something has been changed that may be causing the crash?
Many thanks, Oz
Have checked the errors in the event log and the two that keep coming up are WMI and Kernel-EventTracing, although these are not timed with the crash. Usually for the cold reset I have to do afterwards. Although I'm now working round the issue by hard booting before the hour and these errors are still coming up, so they may not be related. Have to shutdown and power up each time to work round this, a restart doesn't work.
OS Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit
MB Asus P8Z68-VLX
8 GB RAM
AMD Radeon 6900
I'm feeling this is more BIOS related as it crashed with a fresh copy of windows with no other software installed. Does anyone have a list of settings that I can check against in the BIOS to see if something has been changed that may be causing the crash?
Many thanks, Oz