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[Updade: Now crashes seemingly random (within 1 min) when booting windows, no crashdump is generated. Failsafe mode works fine (not slow) though. Oh, andt BSOD with "Stop 0x00000101 "A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval" first time, no dump though
History of the pc problem: So, recently (1 week or so) my computer BSOD:ed when entering hibernation mode. I've seemed to have solved this by uninstalling some crap applications and making a clean install of my nvidia graphics card. However, since then my system has been very sluggish when starting applications/overall
What I've done: Antivirus check Malware check Hdd check No memtest yet. Verified drivers
Recent progress: I've used process explorer and saw a some cpu-usage for interrupts. xperf to look at this showed a count 223 000 during 30 seconds from hal.dll
Results from Windows perfomance analyzer: + Show Spoiler +
Question: Should I blame hal.dll on my problems? How do I continue from here?
System specs: Acer aspire 5742G i5-450m CPU nvidia gt 540m + intel integrated 4gb ddr3 memory 500gb hdd
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Its a ram issue if it bsod during Hibernation because when your pc hibernates, it stores all your current programs and what not running in ram. If it runs into an issue while hibernating, then its having issues saving the data to the ram. either that or you disabled the page file and when you went to hibernate, your programs and whatnot running exceeded 4gb
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On June 21 2012 08:47 AeroEffect wrote: Its a ram issue if it bsod during Hibernation because when your pc hibernates, it stores all your current programs and what not running in ram. If it runs into an issue while hibernating, then its having issues saving the data to the ram. either that or you disabled the page file and when you went to hibernate, your programs and whatnot running exceeded 4gb
I will run memtest tonight I guess. Hibernation works fine now though.
On June 21 2012 09:05 lavit2099 wrote: What OS are you using?
Windows 7
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On June 21 2012 08:47 AeroEffect wrote: Its a ram issue if it bsod during Hibernation because when your pc hibernates, it stores all your current programs and what not running in ram. If it runs into an issue while hibernating, then its having issues saving the data to the ram. either that or you disabled the page file and when you went to hibernate, your programs and whatnot running exceeded 4gb
While that's a good description of a problem ram can cause, in his case I highly doubt it's his ram. Ram typically doesn't slowly get worse, it outright fails (or part of it does) meaning he'd get consistent crashes. When a computer has problems that get progressively worse, it's usually symptomatic of a bad hdd, if that checks out then it could be any number of other problems. OP already did the obvious and ran a HDD check, which while not always perfect gives a reasonable jumping off point.
To OP: It sounds like a cpu problem, and something way out of my league. You're probably not fixing this one with software, or a quick and cheap hardware fix (hdd, ram) sadly though. You can try a fresh install, full driver updates and if that doesn't work it's pretty much over for your laptop. Again though, way out of my league without being able to test the machine myself.
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Another fast way to rule out which stick of ram is causing the problem, provided the problem is consistent and repeatable, power down, pull a single stick of ram, reboot, try and create error. If error continues, swap the sticks of ram, and repeat. If the problem ceases, you've determined which stick is good, which is bad and needs to be replaced. If the problem continues after pulling both sticks and tring each on their own, a memtest might flush out if both are bad or not, or there very well could be an issue on the motherboard, or with the memory controller.
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Thank guys. Yeah, this seems to be way out of my league as well
Since computer works well in failsafe mode though, my hope lives on. I'll update on how it went in a week or so when I had time to backup my data.
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If the matchine is running well in Safe Mode, there might be a problem with your Motherboard drivers.
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Check the event viewer as well usually there are some logs of system troubles.
Control panel->Administrative tools->event viewer
Naicella
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