From time to time my system (Vista64) shuts down - when IDLE - for no reason.
WIndows restarts and says: Windows recovered for an unexpected shutdown... error report send.
How to debug? Note that the system is idle; only background processes are running.
What I've done sofar:
- Ran extended memory test: no problem
- Disabled power saving settings (as I suspected a problem going into hibernate/sleep). No effect.
- Disabled all "user based processes" as Picasa, Google indexing, CPU-temp watcher etc..
- Removed all USB sticks (no readyboost anymore)
No help. I leave the system idle and 10minutes to 2hours later; bang; shutdown
Note also that the system never chrashed when I'm actually working.
So, not a severe issue but I feel intellectually challenged to get the thing under control.
Any idea's on how to proceed further?
Alfred
WIndows restarts and says: Windows recovered for an unexpected shutdown... error report send.
How to debug? Note that the system is idle; only background processes are running.
What I've done sofar:
- Ran extended memory test: no problem
- Disabled power saving settings (as I suspected a problem going into hibernate/sleep). No effect.
- Disabled all "user based processes" as Picasa, Google indexing, CPU-temp watcher etc..
- Removed all USB sticks (no readyboost anymore)
No help. I leave the system idle and 10minutes to 2hours later; bang; shutdown
Note also that the system never chrashed when I'm actually working.
So, not a severe issue but I feel intellectually challenged to get the thing under control.
Any idea's on how to proceed further?
Alfred