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Questions tagged [crash]

A crash (or system crash) is a condition where soft- or hardware ceases to function properly.

Such crashes often involve program errors, freezing up of the program or the entire operating system or malfunctioning hardware like broken hard disk drives. A crash might occur at random or may have a root cause.

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Why does my PC crash only when my cat is nearby?

I have a cat and he likes to walk around behind my desk, which is where my PC is. Somewhat frequently (at a rate of several times an hour) while he is doing this, the screen will suddenly turn black and after a few seconds, the fans stop spinning…
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How to re-enable aero effects in Windows 7 after it has crashed?

Ocassionally aero effects crash. Is there a way to re-enable the effects in Windows 7 after a crash happens? i.e. restarting a service or terminatating a process and letting it restart automaticially or manually loading it? Problem symptoms; in…
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Is there any way to recover unsaved notepad++ docs?

I had to immediate shut down, and I lost about 20 unsaved tabs, is there any way to recover these?
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My computer freezes irregularly

My computer started to freeze at irregular times for 3 weeks now. Please note that this question change with each things that i try. (For additional details) What happens My computer freezes, the video stops. (No graphic glitches, it just…
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How can I restart my taskbar?

Occasionally the clock in the notification area of the taskbar stops working. If I hover over it I can see the analog clock view is correct but the digital readout is frozen. Today I tried to hide the clock and then re-show it but that seems to have…
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How is the computer able to save things before it crashes?

I was under the impression that when a computer has crashed, something went wrong and it can't perform anymore. I was wondering how is the computer able to save things before it crashes? Is the computer really capable of knowing when it's going to…
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Can I save these documents on a dying machine from oblivion?

First, a confession: no, I didn't do the backups I should have. Second, the situation: I have a Dell XPS 9550 with a solid state disk running Fedora 25. I was working on a file and tried to save it when I was told I was trying to save to a…
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What happens when I hover over a link in Chrome?

When this link (http://a//%%30%30) is clicked in Google Chrome, Chrome breaks and closes all tabs and instances. But, in some cases I only need to hover over the link, and the tab crashes. What happens when I hover over this link? I mean, what does…
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My computer crashed, and a weird pattern of pixels was left on the screen

I was messing around with window.open() in JavaScript, to try and make patterns with the popups, and I hit around 250ish Google Chrome windows when my computer crashed. I got an error labeled WerFault.exe - Application Error, that said The…
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How to hide chrome warning after crash?

When Chrome has crashed, it displays a warning (under the address bar) upon restart, offering to restore tabs. I'm launching chrome in kiosk mode and I don't want theses warnings to be displayed. Is there a way to do this ?
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GIMP stuck on "Loading Data Files: Fonts"

I load up GIMP and it gets stuck on "Loading Data Files: Fonts" every time. I have deleted my GIMP profile multiple times, I cleared my font cache, I even searched for corrupt fonts, (0kb font file size) there were none. I haven't installed any…
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How can I copy a scheduled task from a dead Windows to new Windows

My old computer died (hardware fault) and I had to reinstall everything on a new machine. All harddisks are intact and the old system disk is available as F: in my new machine. In the old system I had a scheduled task that would run a simple batch…
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What exactly is IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL?

What exactly is IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL? What is IRQL? What things use IRQL? Why does it need to be less or equal? What would cause it to not be less or equal? Why can't the OS recover from it not being less or equal? Does IRQL only affect…
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How do I troubleshoot hardware issues related to a computer freeze/crash?

What are some common guidelines and issues related to hardware being the issue of a computer crash? What should I look for and how do I troubleshoot these problems? What are some tools that are useful in diagnosing these hardware related…
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Is there a certain or measurable advantage to using ECC RAM in a desktop PC?

I fuss a lot over building stable machines -- in that I absolutely hate crashes, reboots, funny behaviour, etc. -- and so error-correcting a.k.a. ECC RAM would seem to solve a big problem: memory errors. But does it really work? Is there a…
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