Just figured it out, but still left a bit scratching my head. My Experience
Index needed to be refreshed (obviously after an overclock). Not sure why
this would cause this specific behavior, though.
Oh well, maybe this will help someone else that's banging their head against
the wall.
Matt
"Matt" wrote:
Quote:
> Hello all.
>
> I've got an interesting problem. When performing some very specific actions
> that engage UAC (i.e. snipping tool, running unknown [to Windows]
> applications), about 50% of the time, dwm.exe crashes. Now, since this is
> protected from being debugged (understandably), I'm having trouble
> diagnosing/solving it. Here are my specs:
>
> Intel core 2 quad (Q6600)
> 4GB RAM
> Vista Ultimate 64bit
> Dual nvidia 8600GT video cards
>
> I've updated all of drivers, so I don't think this is the issue. This first
> started happening (though not immediately) after I overclocked my CPU (back
> to defaults now, but still happening). Here's the full text of the event log
> msg:
>
> Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
> Application Name: Dwm.exe
> Application Version: 6.0.6000.16386
> Application Timestamp: 4549b7e9
> Fault Module Name: msvcrt.dll
> Fault Module Version: 7.0.6000.16386
> Fault Module Timestamp: 4549d2e1
> Exception Code: c0000005
> Exception Offset: 00000000000017db
> OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
> Locale ID: 1033
> Additional Information 1: c541
> Additional Information 2: cee0f0a18f48f40265d6a5cb5749171e
> Additional Information 3: 23b6
> Additional Information 4: d9a48ac0288f7eddc923475806eaae11
>
> I'm pretty stumped and would love some direction. Thanks.
>
> Matt