I did replace my PSU, that was done in Aug 1st last year (checked the receipt), I will double check the inside of my computer for the wiring, along with the popped capacitors. My computer was built by CyberpowerPC, I purchased the rig from them, everything arrived in working order, and worked flawlessly for 18 months(sans sc2 blowing my first PSU). This may sound dumb, but how do I run as admin? I don't even 'log on' when I boot my PC, it takes me straight to desktop, and I am the only user (literally and technically) for this PC. My video card runs at 149 F, I will find out what my CPU runs at. Funny you bring this up, I was immobile about 3 weeks ago due to a foot injury. I downloaded about 100gb of shows, 100mb or 200mb at a time from mediafire and joined them together using HJSplit. Knowing that it may be an issue, I ran virus scans, but Microsoft Essentials nor any other virus scanner shows I am fully protected, though per PanchoVilla3504 I will give Avast a try.
Click the Start button. In the search box, type command prompt. In the list of results, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator. Then try the command; powercfg /hibernate /size 100
I would just back up everything important and then just reformat\reinstall windows. If your computer still doesn't work normally afterwards then you definitely know it isn't a software problem.
This is what i'd suggest if you can't figure it out. I had one doing something similar to this. I narrowed it down to the mobo or cpu. I eventually just tossed it.
I believe this is definite software issue and not hardware it seems like since the BSOD only happens in hibernate mode. First, I would make sure windows has the latest updates and also update any other hardware you have installed through the manufacturers website. There is a hotfix for this specific issue which is here: http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=982635&kbln=en-us#step1 If it does not work then run in safe mode and run a test there and make sure to unplug all usb devices etc. If it's not a windows issue I'm guessing one or more of your drivers is bad. So, if you have installed anything recently do a system restore or uninstall the software/application and see if it continues. Hope that helps narrow it down at least.
Lotta guessing going on in here, so I will toss mine out. Power supply? Have you added hardware lately?
I just skimmed the thread, so maybe this has been mentioned, but have you run any simple registry cleaning programs? I ran ccleaner on a friends Vista PC today and then I remembered reading about a program called ncleaner, which apparently does more than ccleaner does. Ncleaner cleared out over 2GB of crap and temporary files and picked up about a bajillion registry errors. Her PC ran noticeably faster (start up and program load times). Handy little program.
My Dell of 8 years (P4) finally died on me. My guess is the power supply. What I noticed that killed it was the extra DVD drive I had there. I'd unplug anything non essential inside the computer and try it then. If you have onboard graphics, you could try using that and detaching your gfx card. Anything to reduce the power draw. Then check to see if the symptoms is still there. I'd also start making backups while you can. Could take hours moving teh pr0n to an external, but the guesses about the HDD dying is a solid one. Also, if you're running scans 24/7 with ****load of media files, that's gonna take it's toll on performance and your HDD. It could be that you have scans running in the background while you're dling your nudie files. In that case, it's normal. I used to play all my L4D on that rig.
