Timeline for Is it possible to find out when my computer crashed?
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| Apr 28, 2010 at 1:19 | vote | accept | Margaret | ||
| Oct 5, 2009 at 23:54 | comment | added | William Hilsum | Next time it happens, check blue screen view - nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html If nothing is there, I would go again and say power - it could be the PSU.... Try to do a stress test and max the cpu to 100% for about 10-20 minutes and see if it crashes. Obviously you can also cross your fingers that it was something simple such as someone accidentally restarting or cleaner touched the plug!... | |
| Oct 5, 2009 at 23:53 | comment | added | William Hilsum | Argh. Don't you just love working with computers!. Well, I suppose it could be a problem with the UPS? I don't suppose you have monitoring for them just to rule this out? Typically, I find that a freeze is driver/hardware, a BSOD/restart can be the same or misconfiguration where as a restart without a log is nearly always power related. I would suggest you set what I said above and possibly also check that you are creating a kernel dump. | |
| Oct 5, 2009 at 23:26 | comment | added | Margaret | I probably should have mentioned that the computer is the only machine in the room on a UPS - and the only one that fell over. The rest of them were chugging along just fine. ...Just to add to the total head-scratcher of it. | |
| Oct 5, 2009 at 23:23 | history | answered | William Hilsum | CC BY-SA 2.5 |