I'm not as familiar with Vista, but I believe you can just type 'event viewer' in the start/search box thing to get to it. The system log will mostly be where you want to look, but give the others a check too. In particular, note any errors that are logged around the time of a crash.
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okay, I'll get the crash again, and see if there's anything there.
Okay, I've crashed again, and lokoed at the 'Errors' event log, and here's what I got:
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I've rechecked, and noticed these at almost all the approximate times of crashing.
Any Help?
Last edited by Che Roriniho; 09-02-2008 at 11:30.
My guess is you have a driver and that is not Vista 64bit compatible. Apparently PQNTDrv.SYS is a driver used by PowerQuest but could also be a virus disguised as that so my next guess would be you have a PowerQuest program that is not Vista 64bit compatible.
This Kerberos thing seems to be a bug introduced with SP1 for some people, don't think I ever had it but found a forum where some had it (including freezes) and they say Microsoft advises to ignore it. Since the log entry seems to be on Every Vista SP1 computer(including this notebook here that doesn't freeze) I guess it has nothing to do with the freezes.
I think it could be a purely hardware related problem since an incompatible driver should not cause random crashes either way, unless you caught yourself some virus there...
Last edited by Husar; 09-02-2008 at 12:43.
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I'm scanning for viruses, but I doubt that's the cause, as I've been having them since pre-internet on my computer.
Also found a load more 1060 errors, not all of them the same as that previous one, whats more, they seem to match approximately up to my crashes:
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The last few times I've had the crashes, instead of it just hanging, it rebots, and then tells be that there was a bluescreen. I know in WinXP Bluescreens dissappeared the second the appeared, is this the same in Vista.
I've also noticed that 3 things happen before a crash (according to the event viewer):
1st, there is an application pop-up. (1060 error)
Then, about 10 seconds later, there is an EventLog error (6008), this says that about 2 minutes ago (from the message) there was a unexpected shutdown. Example:
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Finnally, there is an HttpEvent (15016). This tells me that Kerberosis anable to initialize for server-side authentication. This doesn't seem to only happen when there is a crash, but it is always in this 3 error part.
Okay, it's happened again, and I've got an error message diolog adter it booted up.
Here it is:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 50
BCP1: FFFFFA6007384000
BCP2: 0000000000000001
BCP3: FFFFFA600245305B
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_0_6001
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1
Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini090308-01.dmp
C:\Windows\Temp\WER-31793-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Windows\Temp\WERA9D5.tmp.version.txt
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