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    Crashes when idle

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Slusho, Nov 22, 2011.

  1. Slusho

    Slusho Notebook Guru

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    If I leave my computer running for a few minutes without doing anything, it crashes. This has been happening for the last couple days. WhoCrashed only displays a few crashes from several months ago. I'll try a System Restore, but does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

    Edit: System Restore seems to have worked. This started happening right after I instaled uTorrent 3, so maybe that's the problem. In any event, I should have tried this before posting.

    Edit: Wait no now it's BSODing whenever it feels like it and when I wake it up sometimes the screen doesn't turn on so I have to manually turn it off.
     
    Slusho, Nov 22, 2011
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  2. bigtonyman

    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    strange, have you recently installed any new applications or drivers?
     
    bigtonyman, Nov 22, 2011
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  3. alroar

    alroar Notebook Consultant

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    alroar, Nov 24, 2011
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