"tednelson83" wrote in message
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ok... so how do i find out witch one? all drivers were the latest pulled
off the internet at the time of the install, and have all been checked
for newer updates. all are up to date. hardware, i haven't had these
problems in the past, ant there are no indications that any thing is
failing,so how do you narrow it down. that was a awfully vague reply.


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tednelson83


No indications of anything failing other than BSOD's? That is as good an
indication as any..

Try this

Control Panel Performance Monitor Advanced Tools Generate a System
Health Report..

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Generate a system health report. Type: "perfmon /report" in Search... it'll
take a minute. See what's at fault... hopefully
Michael


"tednelson83" wrote in message
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i am so sick of this thing. i cant figure out what is wrong with it
either. my computer dies on me constantly, it has done it to me 3 times
just in the last 24 hours. my reliability index id down to a 2.60, and
shows a windows failure almost every day since 6/25/08 when i last wiped
it. i have tried every thing i can think of to solve this problem and i
am getting really tempted to throw the damn thing out the window! it is
set up as my media center/dvr and so it runs 24/7 save for the constant
reboot times. the last time it died(about 5 minutes ago) i was just
reading a webpage. it doesn't matter what I'm doing with it, it will
just randomly and with out warning throw a blue screen at me. anyone
seen this? any suggestions? this thing is REALLY ****ing me off!


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tednelson83

I have a HP dv9420us notebook with the HP analog express TV tuner and am
running Vista Home Premium 64. I would like to put it to sleep and let it
wake to record and then go back to sleep. But for some reason when it wakes
to record it blue screens on me. Usually at night while I'm asleep at night
or am away (I don't usually sit and watch it sleep) When I log on I get a
message telling me that it blue screened. Any way, I have tried updating the
drivers with no success. Iv looked in the performance monitor and the errors
are all listed as application or OS errors, there are no errors listed for
hardware. I hope its not hardware, My system has been back to the factory 4
times for repairs....It was completely replaced once.

ok, the health report just indicated that one of my hard drives was
full, which was expected, as thats my DVR drive. i read through the info
provided above, and a lot of it pointed to memory issues, so i swapped
the ram around, and shut off the asus 10% overclock thing in the bios.

what i found interesting while reading the articles in the MS knowledge
base that pertained to my errors, is were related to systems that 4GB
ram, as does mine. however it stated that the fix was to install SP1,
and i had installed that when i reinstalled vista, at the same time as i
got all the other updates.


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tednelson83

To date, you still have not listed a single error message.
You did finally mention two specs: Using ASUS 10% overclock and 4GB memory.
Most boards don't actually do well with the "auto-overclock" feature set
above 8%. And, any overclocking immediately brings into question heat
dissipation and hardware?

Is this Vista x86, or x64?
Do you have memory hole remapping enabled?
Are all sticks of memory the same?
This are the first questions that pop-up related to 4GB memory.

What speed are they rated?
Have you run any diagnostic on the memory?
What's the core temp running? Idle? Loaded?
How big is your power supply? What graphics card are you using?
As soon as you say overclocking, that's the direction I would start
thinking.

Providing some basic information, as previously requested would go a long
way in helping you. Until then, what exactly are you expecting us to help
you with?

"tednelson83" wrote in message
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ok, the health report just indicated that one of my hard drives was
full, which was expected, as thats my DVR drive. i read through the info
provided above, and a lot of it pointed to memory issues, so i swapped
the ram around, and shut off the asus 10% overclock thing in the bios.

what i found interesting while reading the articles in the MS knowledge
base that pertained to my errors, is were related to systems that 4GB
ram, as does mine. however it stated that the fix was to install SP1,
and i had installed that when i reinstalled vista, at the same time as i
got all the other updates.


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tednelson83

I doubt SP1 has a real fix for the 4GB issue cause that is a physicsal x86
memory registers limitation - very roughly, 32-bit CPU can use/address max
3.2GB RAM. Nothing can be done here except move to a 64-bit CPU.

What SP1 does is to show (pending mobo BIOS) system RAM instead of Vista
available RAM (4GB vs 3.2GB) but the x86 CPU cannot use more than 3.2 GB -
of which, anyways, some is reserved for hardwa graphics, sound.

At this moment, I would test the RAM - either Memtest86 or Vista's own
memtest.exe.

Michael

"tednelson83" wrote in message
...

ok, the health report just indicated that one of my hard drives was
full, which was expected, as thats my DVR drive. i read through the info
provided above, and a lot of it pointed to memory issues, so i swapped
the ram around, and shut off the asus 10% overclock thing in the bios.

what i found interesting while reading the articles in the MS knowledge
base that pertained to my errors, is were related to systems that 4GB
ram, as does mine. however it stated that the fix was to install SP1,
and i had installed that when i reinstalled vista, at the same time as i
got all the other updates.


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tednelson83

Hi,

Does it blue screen if you just leave it on and let it record? If not, then
the problem lies in the drivers supporting the tuner card. They apparently
don't support the sleep mode. Until the manufacturer of the tuner updates
them, there won't be much you can do.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Anthony" wrote in message
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I have a HP dv9420us notebook with the HP analog express TV tuner and am
running Vista Home Premium 64. I would like to put it to sleep and let it
wake to record and then go back to sleep. But for some reason when it
wakes
to record it blue screens on me. Usually at night while I'm asleep at
night
or am away (I don't usually sit and watch it sleep) When I log on I get a
message telling me that it blue screened. Any way, I have tried updating
the
drivers with no success. Iv looked in the performance monitor and the
errors
are all listed as application or OS errors, there are no errors listed for
hardware. I hope its not hardware, My system has been back to the factory
4
times for repairs....It was completely replaced once.

"Phillips" wrote in message
...
I doubt SP1 has a real fix for the 4GB issue cause that is a physicsal x86
memory registers limitation - very roughly, 32-bit CPU can use/address max
3.2GB RAM. Nothing can be done here except move to a 64-bit CPU.

What SP1 does is to show (pending mobo BIOS) system RAM instead of Vista
available RAM (4GB vs 3.2GB) but the x86 CPU cannot use more than 3.2 GB -
of which, anyways, some is reserved for hardwa graphics, sound.

At this moment, I would test the RAM - either Memtest86 or Vista's own
memtest.exe.

Michael

A full 4GB of address space can be addressed by a 32 bit CPU. Some of
this address space is reserved for hardware and video card addressing, so
those addresses are not available to RAM. The available RAM varies
from approx 3.0 GB to 3.5 GB depending mainly on the amount of video
card memory.

The 4 GB issue mentioned by the OP is not related to this. It is in
reference
to pre SP1 stability issues, (Stop errors), in both 32 and 64 bit Vista when
4 GB of RAM is installed. This issue was limited to specific chipsets.

Thank you for clarifying the issue,
Michael

"Ian D" wrote in message
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"Phillips" wrote in message
...
I doubt SP1 has a real fix for the 4GB issue cause that is a physicsal x86
memory registers limitation - very roughly, 32-bit CPU can use/address max
3.2GB RAM. Nothing can be done here except move to a 64-bit CPU.

What SP1 does is to show (pending mobo BIOS) system RAM instead of Vista
available RAM (4GB vs 3.2GB) but the x86 CPU cannot use more than 3.2
GB - of which, anyways, some is reserved for hardwa graphics, sound.

At this moment, I would test the RAM - either Memtest86 or Vista's own
memtest.exe.

Michael

A full 4GB of address space can be addressed by a 32 bit CPU. Some of
this address space is reserved for hardware and video card addressing, so
those addresses are not available to RAM. The available RAM varies
from approx 3.0 GB to 3.5 GB depending mainly on the amount of video
card memory.

The 4 GB issue mentioned by the OP is not related to this. It is in
reference
to pre SP1 stability issues, (Stop errors), in both 32 and 64 bit Vista
when
4 GB of RAM is installed. This issue was limited to specific chipsets.

I really appreciate your help with my problem. I was wondering if it is a
driver problem with the particular tuner if using a different tuner might
work....I also have two panicle usb tuners I can try. Thanks again.

"Rick Rogers" wrote in message
...

Hi,

Does it blue screen if you just leave it on and let it record? If not,
then the problem lies in the drivers supporting the tuner card. They
apparently don't support the sleep mode. Until the manufacturer of the
tuner updates them, there won't be much you can do.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Anthony" wrote in message
...
I have a HP dv9420us notebook with the HP analog express TV tuner and am
running Vista Home Premium 64. I would like to put it to sleep and let it
wake to record and then go back to sleep. But for some reason when it
wakes
to record it blue screens on me. Usually at night while I'm asleep at
night
or am away (I don't usually sit and watch it sleep) When I log on I get a
message telling me that it blue screened. Any way, I have tried updating
the
drivers with no success. Iv looked in the performance monitor and the
errors
are all listed as application or OS errors, there are no errors listed
for
hardware. I hope its not hardware, My system has been back to the factory
4
times for repairs....It was completely replaced once.