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A bit vague this one but I was hoping someone might have come accross it before.
My PC has recently (for about a month now) started displaying a blue screen. It has happened nearly every day for a month (my PC is on all the time) - BUT it has only happened when the PC is unattended - it has never happened while I have been working on it. I have powersave enabled to switch my monitor off after 10 minutes and I wondered if this was causing the problem. I have tried updating the drivers for my Nvidia GForce 6600 which has made no difference.
The messages on the blue screen vary every time, I have had the IRQ_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL one, The PAGE_FAULT one (can't remember the exact wording) and the KERNEL_MODE_TRAP - what does this suggest?
I wouldn't be overly worried but when I switch my PC off from the blue screen there is an alarming scraping noise coming from within (sounds like one of the hard drives) - it doesn't make this noise when I switch off normally or during normal operation. My concern is that the hard disk heads aren't being parked (does that still happen these days?) and the disk(s) will become damaged.
I haven't installed any new hardware or software in the past month so it is all a bit of a mystery. My PC is P4 3.4GHz with 1GB Ram.
Can anyone suggest what might be causing the problems or how I might start to diagnose it?
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