Event viewer

Anyone know a program that's better than event viewer? My machine just randomly restarts into recovery console sometimes and nothing is logged in event viewer.

 

Use a program called Whocrashed.

 

Have to wait for it to happen again, i had page file turned off so no dump file was created!

+rep

 

That should help you to pinpoint the problem. It helped me a lot. It tells you what the issue is probably attributed to.

 

Well this problem continued since this post and i still have no idea why. Im not retarded when it comes to troubleshooting, infact its my job! But i this is beyond me.

Whocrashed said its DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE on ntoskrnl.exe

Now i know its going to be a incorrect or out of date driver possibly? I just cant figure out which! i have a feeling its my gtx560m driver but i have tried both the dell on and nvidias newest one on their site. Both with clean installs.

Any ideas?

 

Have you recently install/update any driver or hardware? Because I also use to get few of these BSOD messages, for me it is an error for my HDD's Failure and I also googling this error most of which are due to HDD/SSD errors, so it maybe your SSD problem, however you can also post this error on this Windows 7 Forum - Crashes and Debugging, it will link you away from NBR, but in that forum, most people are more specialise in that particular thing, but be sure to read this BSOD - Posting Instructions before you post, because it would help boost your resolving speed. And dont forget to update here if you get resolve so then if other people having same problem, then it'll save them time too. Hope this would help you.

 

BSOD Possible GPU Switching related - Windows 7 Forums

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have some Festive rep

 

You're welcome, I also did read that link, you said "Machine will bluescreen when left alone for periods of time", that was one of the problem I had during between the time I got those BSOD, if I leave it idle for like 30min+ it will BSOD or give me something like Athero Ethernet error, Check Cable Connection. Please insert driver disc to continue (sorry that I cant remember what it said but it sound something like that), and it repeat if leave it idle until the last week before I get the HDD replace, it give me those BSOD like 10+ within a day, which is very frustrated.

I found out my HDD need replacing because Dell tech support instruct me to run the Dell Diagnostic at startup by press "F12 Boot Option" then select Dell Diagnostic, not sure if this available on the M17x too or not but it should because it is tied to the BIOS - Dell's BIOS. Run it and note any error message/code you receive and call Dell because only them know what those error message/code mean. Hope it is not your SSD problem.

 

If its the SSD i fitted i can live with it, it doesnt do it all the time its just i was at work on night shift over Christmas and i was bored so decided to look into it.