Re: Hard Crash Help

Try this MS app
http://www.dependencywalker.com/
On reboot start the app and then run IE through the app, when the crash
occurs Depends should show at what point.
I would suspect video driver

"daym" <daym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm at my wits end, and I hope that someone here can point me to a KB
article
or offer some insight into what is happening.

I'm running a pentium 950, corsair xms2 ddr2 ram, x1900xtx, soundblast
x-fi
platinum. Nothing is overclocked, running windows xp sp2 fully patched.
All
drivers updated.

The issue is simple, Windows does a complete hard crash on me, no mouse
movement, no alt-tabbing, just completely stops. On a reboot, Windows
does
not complain that it shutdown unexpectedly, there are zero error logs, and
to
make matters worse, I can completely reproduce this issue, but I can't for
the life of me track down the problem.

I can be using my computer playing world of warcraft for hours and hours
on
end without an issue; but, if I alt-tab out, and start up IE, Windows will
freeze within 30 minutes. If WoW isn't running and I start up IE, Windows
will freeze within 30 minutes. I use firefox, windows does not freeze.
When
I use Ventrilo (VoIP application), Windows will freeze, when I use the
Vongo
movie service, I can download and watch movies fine, but if I do their
live
streaming, windows will freeze. If I use the bit-torrent downloader for
wow
patches, windows freezes. Its not a heating issue, and I can't for the
life
of me believe its a hardware issue since I can play video games without
issue, use firefox without issue, etc. It would appear the issue is
related
to streaming, but I can't find anything even remotely being reported like
this as an issue.

Any ideas?


.

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