- May 9, 2009
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I've been running windows 7 ultimate since the retail version came out, and I've almost never had a freeze or specific crash that I can remember. About a week ago I had a random total windows freeze while I was in gmail and I had to a a hard reboot.
Then tonight I was playing a .avi video file (just dvd resolution not even HD) on my LCDTV (that I have connected via HDMI to my PC) like I have been for like 6 months, and my PC randomly rebooted after it was playing for 10 minutes. And then about every 10 minutes after that initial crash the movie would freeze with the sound looping. About 3 of the 5 times of this happening, I could unmaximize the video and close it and reopen it no problem after like 30 seconds of it being frozen, but the other 2 times the PC seemed to totally freeze up, and needed to be rebooted.
After all this happened I checked the windows system logs, and I saw a warning about every 3 minutes from the source NVSTOR saying, "Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort1 was issued".
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/2332/nvstoreventlog.jpg
Event log had about 50 occurrences of this from like 12:30am to 1:50am which was the time frame all the freezing was occurring in. Whats really weird is I then went back into the event log to get a screen shot like a few hours later (and write this post), and most of the time entries are somehow missing from around that time, even thought I clearly saw them just a few hours ago, and now there is only 1 instance of the nvstor Warning, maybe event log combined all 50 or so into this one or something.
At anyrate I am wondering if this RaidPort1 is one of the ports on my PCI-E Esata Card which does support raid. I did have a esata HD connected to one of the ports during all of this (although the Esata HD's power was physically switched off the entire time, the esata cable was physically connected)
I am really trying to get to the bottom of this and figure out what the heck is happening here, because I've played like 100's of movies in 1080p all the time with no problems, and now seemly out of no where I'm getting freezeing/crashing that is maybe related to a SATA drive? it doesn't make much sense to me. Please let me know if anyone has any ideas on this, or has ideas I can use to troubleshoot check things on this.
>Update
So while I was finishing editing this post windows just completely froze again.
I rebooted using regular reset button on my CPU.
Then it hanged at this first bios screen
> http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/8798/1stbios.jpg
for about 1 minute before loading the second screen, then it hanged at this 2nd bios screen
>http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/7646/2ndbios.jpg
with Boot from CD: at the bottom for more than 4 minutes, and I then held in the power button to fully turn it off. (No optical media had been in the optical drive for weeks)
Then it booted up fine, and I checked the windows system logs and they only just a critical error from like a minute ago saying that the previous shutdown was not improper. The esata was unplugged this whole time, and I dont see the nvstor in the event log so now I am really not sure what is going on.
Then tonight I was playing a .avi video file (just dvd resolution not even HD) on my LCDTV (that I have connected via HDMI to my PC) like I have been for like 6 months, and my PC randomly rebooted after it was playing for 10 minutes. And then about every 10 minutes after that initial crash the movie would freeze with the sound looping. About 3 of the 5 times of this happening, I could unmaximize the video and close it and reopen it no problem after like 30 seconds of it being frozen, but the other 2 times the PC seemed to totally freeze up, and needed to be rebooted.
After all this happened I checked the windows system logs, and I saw a warning about every 3 minutes from the source NVSTOR saying, "Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort1 was issued".
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/2332/nvstoreventlog.jpg
Event log had about 50 occurrences of this from like 12:30am to 1:50am which was the time frame all the freezing was occurring in. Whats really weird is I then went back into the event log to get a screen shot like a few hours later (and write this post), and most of the time entries are somehow missing from around that time, even thought I clearly saw them just a few hours ago, and now there is only 1 instance of the nvstor Warning, maybe event log combined all 50 or so into this one or something.
At anyrate I am wondering if this RaidPort1 is one of the ports on my PCI-E Esata Card which does support raid. I did have a esata HD connected to one of the ports during all of this (although the Esata HD's power was physically switched off the entire time, the esata cable was physically connected)
I am really trying to get to the bottom of this and figure out what the heck is happening here, because I've played like 100's of movies in 1080p all the time with no problems, and now seemly out of no where I'm getting freezeing/crashing that is maybe related to a SATA drive? it doesn't make much sense to me. Please let me know if anyone has any ideas on this, or has ideas I can use to troubleshoot check things on this.
>Update
So while I was finishing editing this post windows just completely froze again.
I rebooted using regular reset button on my CPU.
Then it hanged at this first bios screen
> http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/8798/1stbios.jpg
for about 1 minute before loading the second screen, then it hanged at this 2nd bios screen
>http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/7646/2ndbios.jpg
with Boot from CD: at the bottom for more than 4 minutes, and I then held in the power button to fully turn it off. (No optical media had been in the optical drive for weeks)
Then it booted up fine, and I checked the windows system logs and they only just a critical error from like a minute ago saying that the previous shutdown was not improper. The esata was unplugged this whole time, and I dont see the nvstor in the event log so now I am really not sure what is going on.
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