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Hi All,
I have an issue with windows 8.1 of which I would like someone to shed some light on for me.
The issue I am having is that every so often since upgrading 8.1 last night it keeps locking up on me for no apparent reason resulting in a a restart by the reset switch, and this never happened with windows 8 but it is annoying how 8.1 is now doing it.
Can anyone help? as I am seriously debating downgrading from windows 8.1 back to 8 as I don't want a system that locks up on me and is unstable all the time due to using my computer to do coursework for college and can't afford to lose any work that has not been saved.
SPECS:
MSI E350DM-E33
AMD E350 X2 @ 1.6Ghz
8GB DDR3
1TB HDD
ATI HD RADEON 6310
Yours Sincerely,
Shane
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since I've done that trick I found the system has been running great. I'll repeat it here and then try to scatter it into other replies. People should be made aware of this trick. Go into Task Manager. Right click on Windows Explorer. Click "restart"... then restart your PC... the PC will take awhile to reboot... the Windows system must be "reinstalling" or something.... this reset everything very well, for me....
It is odd that you couldn't run dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealthhere is a link to the scanner http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx If it doesn't work you can search Bing for Microsoft security scanner
Did it give you an error? Maybe it was typed in wrong or you weren't running command prompt as admin. You can copy from here and right click then select paste in the command prompt.
Does dism /online cleanup-image /checkhealth or dism /online cleanup-image /scanhealth run.
One of those will scan the computer for issues and report back if there is anything to fix. The other will the registry and other places to see if Windows set flags which is just its way of marking that there is an issue that needs repaired.
None will try and fix anything but they should run.
You can turn off one drive in settings. System restore doesn't run 100% of the time and the live tiles use such a small amount of resources and only use them when on the start screen that couldn't be a RAM hog.
You can turn them off if you have a slower system and it is interfering but the issue for most is not that. I would look at third party programs that are not releasing resources or perhaps virus scans that are not good at resource balancing. You can easily use tack manager or resource monitor to see where the issue lies if you have issues
my problem is that one program crash and then the others begin to crash after it!
And at the end after like 5 mins of everything crashin my mouse cant move!
Then i wait like 10 minutes and then its gettin to the windows 8 screen thing and
stay there for a while and then it works again! Its really annying!
And everytime i restart my computer i get DPC_WATCHDOGS_VIOLATION error and have
To restore my computer a couple of days! And i have searched up help for that problem and
Did what all the others did! but didnt work 4 me! So i have to have my computer runnin almost 24/7
And sometimes my screencard random disconnects and reconnect and the same for my 2 harddrive!
What to do?
SPECS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
16G DDR3
1TB ATA
1TB ATA
Motherboard not sure
I would have to guess it is the graphics card driver. I would uninstall and reinstall it. If that doesn't solve the issue you can go to the manufactures web site and download the driver from there. Since you have some high heat producing parts in your computer make sure the fans aren't turning on more often then normal. You may need to blow out the dust with a low pressure air source.
Here is info on the reason you will get the exception
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj154556%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
You should do these steps http://www.vindamedia.com/windows/help/windows-8-general-errors You can use clean boot to narrow down what is causing the issue.
