PC crashed overnight - how can I find out the issue??

StevieP · 20 Jun 2011 at 09:29

Hi guys,

I left my PC on overnight downloading (see specs in my sig. albeit I'm not OC'ing atm so my i5 is at stock!) but when I came to it this morning, the PC itself was still powered up (lights on, fans going etc) but there was no signal to my monitor and nothing made it "wake up" - tried keys, mouse etc and I ended up doing a hard reset!! :confused:

Is there any way I can find out what the problem was??

Thanks....

Admiral Huddy · 20 Jun 2011 at 09:30

Event Log?

deanolfc · 20 Jun 2011 at 09:30

rite click computer click manage , > event viewer > see the error codes in the middle after loading

StevieP · 20 Jun 2011 at 18:05

Thanks for the replies guys - here is what I get in my event viewer:

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Question now is........ what the hell does it mean??? :confused:

Can anyone advise how I find out what caused it??

Thanks..........

StevieP · 20 Jun 2011 at 20:37

OK, now I'm worried!!!

Its just frozen again whilst watching a video!!! :confused:

All the power etc stayed on and the screen just froze with the video still on the screen (obviously stopped tho!)

My event viewer is as follows:

It would appear this has happened 3 times in the last month with seemingly no pattern!?!?! :confused:

Has anyone got any advice on how to combat this??

Spydell · 20 Jun 2011 at 21:34

Goto control panel then power options select high performance.
check (change plan settings) and make sure they are set to NEVER.

StevieP · 20 Jun 2011 at 22:28

What does the high performance setting actually change??

At the moment I'm on "Balanced" and its set to turn off the display after 15 mins and to never put the computer to sleep!

Why would it make any difference making the PC run at max settings? Surely that would just stress it more and potentially make it crash/freeze more wouldnt it???!!!

Spydell · 20 Jun 2011 at 23:50

Im assuming your running windows 7 64bit right?
Have you got sp1 installed?
Are all your drivers upto date?
If the answer is yes to the above then try what i said and if it still fails after that then
chances are it will probably be psu related.

StevieP · 21 Jun 2011 at 09:15

Yes, yes and as far as I know!

I'd be really surprised if it was PSU related, I've had the same OZC Modstream for well over a year and never had anything like this before!?!?!

Is there any way I can check this??

Also, if this is possibly software related (you mentioned drivers) would a full re-install make a difference??

Spydell · 21 Jun 2011 at 16:10

Goto control panel then power options select high performance.
check (change plan settings) and make sure they are set to NEVER.
(this will solve your issues if you leave your comp on overnight, watching films ect...)

As for the critical events you see in event viewer there likely related to when you did a hard reset.
I wouldn't worry too much.
Just try what i suggested and everything should be fine

StevieP · 21 Jun 2011 at 16:45

Thanks for the continued help!

I'll give it a go but as per my post above, the "computer to sleep" option is already set to never, its just the display one that is set to 15 mins - how would this make any difference?

daveash · 21 Jun 2011 at 17:50

Are you sure you're giving your CPU enough voltage? I have the same cpu at the same clocks as you and had exactly the same problems, occasional lockups and would mysteriously crash overnight. Despite the fact that I could prime for 12 hours and it'd be fine, I needed to increase my volts by one step in my bios.