Bartimaeus

The Cowboys were funny for a while, but now they're just sad.

What's up with Cowboys defensive linemen and legal trouble? "Cowboys DT Antwaun Woods was arrested on Tuesday at a traffic stop and charged with possession of marijuana over 2 ounces but less than 4 ounces, tampering with evidence, and he was cited for possession of paraphernalia, Frisco PD tells me."

GSmartControl is what I'd suggest to read the SMART data of drives. In general, it usually works best to install drivers specific to your motherboard (or in this case, laptop model i.e. from MSI). The GPU drivers are the exception to that rule, since it's usually better to use the latest from Nvidia/AMD, but maybe try MSI's latest driver if they have one for the time eing.

If it continues to run fine, then at that point, it might be wise to look at the SMART data for your hard drive (although I would've expected a chkdsk to have been performed by Windows at some point automatically if the drive were dying). Most likely, though, it sounds like a Windows update or driver issue.

Yeah, not sure. Symptoms are all over the place, so I can't rightly guess as to what it might be or whether the manufacturer will be able to fix it.

Good question: how quickly did you get a warning for this one?

never mind

Does your "reset" Windows 10 come with drivers pre-installed? If so, start uninstalling them one by one between safe and not safe mode boots until the system stops freezing outside of safe mode, .

@Hulk'O'Saurus Before doing what I said in the previous post, it occurs to me that we haven't even tried as basic of a thing as putting the system into safe mode (which I see you actually just mentioned in your previous post). Please do that and test stability before anything else.

My next step would definitely be install an actually fresh copy of Windows onto a USB drive like I suggested above...also, disable your internet if you can before doing so so that Windows 10 doesn't immediately start auto-updating and prevent you from seeing if that's more stable over a long period of time before updating Windows or drivers. You can also install GSmartControl to check out the vitals of your hard drives, but I think for something as extreme as this, Windows would probably detect something's awry and automatically start chkdsk, which I'd think you'd mention if it did, so I'm not too concerned about the drive(s). If with a new format on a separate drive before updating and before installing drivers the system continues to have stability problems, I think you can pretty safely rule that it's the PSU, especially with all the other symptoms. If the problem doesn't persist, though, that's where it'll get interesting. The "at fault" files shown in those images are all like critical kernel and abstraction layer files, so it doesn't really say anything besides that there is something seriously wrong with the system.

They have prints from all over the place. A 35mm Technicolor is the one they used for 97% of A New Hope, with little bits used from from Eastman and LPP prints as well as a couple of other places. Return of the Jedi used a "pristine" LPP print for all of it, and was the easiest to restore. The Empire Strikes Back (which isn't completed yet) will apparently use a combination of Fuji, Eastman, and Kodak, and is apparently the most difficult to restore due to the state of extant prints. It'll apparently need about 42TB's worth of space to finish mastering at a 4K resolution transfer. @LadyCrimson Silver Screen is the original fan transfer from years back, 4K77 is the new 4K transfer I was talking about.

@LadyCrimson So you actually prefer the fan transfer at least in terms of colors, if I'm understanding you and the images correctly? (The fan transfer looks much more yellow while the official bluray looks much more dark and red to me.) Funny. I think my preference is red > green > yellow > blue, so the exact opposite order from you, haha.

If it's on its 4th hour and no errors detected, it's good, especially for a system crashing that quickly and consistently. Temperature's probably fine as well. I would stick with a copy of Windows, because you want to replicate your current setup but with a different drive to control for any other factors. You can download an installable copy of Windows 10 here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Select "create installation media", pick the version of Windows that matches yours, select .iso file or to USB depending on what you want to do, then use WinToUSB to install directly to a flash drive (Microsoft does not normally let you install Windows to flash drives - you have to use software like WinToUSB to do so). Actually, I recall now that you said you did a full reinstall of Windows 10 as it is, so you probably only need to follow the WinToUSB thing if you already have install media. If this were a desktop, the easiest thing to test would be to swap out the PSU. Stupid laptops.

He listed two different types of errors in his previous post, WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR & IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, so I assume not. When I looked up both of them, it seemed like people all said "yeah, you're going to have to look at your bsod dump to figure that one out", which is not fun to do.

Fan theatrical 4K transfer: Official "Special Edition" 2K transfer: Definitely think the official looks nicer. Still, if you want the non-SE versions, it's not too shabby. I probably would stick to a 2K version of the fan theatrical transfer, don't think you lose much detail by doing so.

@Zoraptor "'bad' power from a dying psu can give some pretty baffling symptoms[...]" Amen to that. @Hulk'O'Saurus So wait, the system froze when you tried to enter control panel while on battery power? This is a weird situation. So if it were me, I'd be doing a number of things: 1. Since we suspect a power issue, set the CPU power level in Windows' advanced power plan settings to minimum (5% usually, I think). 2. Using temperature-monitoring software to make sure the CPU and GPU temps aren't weird (hwinfo64). 3. Memtest86 to see if the RAM errors out (though if the power supply is bad and causing power fluctuations or something, it may not necessarily be the RAM's fault that it's erroring out). Random BSOD errors like the ones you're getting is a frequent symptom of bad or malfunctioning RAM. I would probably also test plugged vs. unplugged since you've mentioned the different Windows experience vs. the two is still occurring, even if problems don't totally go away when running unplugged. 4. Run an external OS off of an external hard drive or a flash drive. Does it still keep BSODing? 5. Test more with battery power. Are you consistently getting significantly better uptime vs. when using plugged power? Is there any difference in the way you've used the two (i.e. waiting a while for the battery to charge to get a literal cold boot with battery power vs. frequent hot boots with plugged power)?

@LadyCrimson Believe it or not, fan-made 1080p and even 4K transfers of the original theatrical cuts (i.e. non-Special Edition) are already out there, taken from stolen "recovered" 35mm prints. From images I've seen of it, Disney could probably improve on it, but it's obviously miles ahead of anything official.

@Keyrock It's actually really simple - the head to head would be 1-1, the next thing checked would be divisional record where Cowboys are currently 4-0 while Eagles are 1-1. ...Wait a moment, the Eagles are 1-1 in their division? The Eagles finish the season @Dolphins, vs. Giants, @Redskins, vs. Cowboys, @Giants. The Cowboys finish the season @Bears, vs. Rams, @Eagles, vs. Redskins. ...In other words, the Cowboys are screwed.

@Keyrock Fun fact: if the Cowboys lose out while the Eagles only notch one win against the Cowboys, the Cowboys would still make the playoffs at 6-10, .

@Keyrock "The Dolphins have more wins against winning teams than the Cowboys: Dolphins defeated the 6-5 Colts in week 10, Cowboys have defeated teams with a 16-50-1 record, including zero winning teams"

@Hulk'O'Saurus That's...odd. Never heard of something like that, though I have significantly less experience with laptops than I do desktops. What about being plugged in would cause the PSU to act abnormally? You'd think it'd be the other way around if anything, that it might not be able to fully deliver power if it's running off of battery...

@Antonio Brown: Rumor has it that the NFL has told a few teams that he would be immediately place him on the Commissioner's Exempt List if he signed with a team, but that he cannot be placed on it until he does, hence the weirdness. That's "the" rumor, anyways. I don't think it's completely black and white - I think if you're genuinely starter quality, you can get away with a lot more than if you're not, or at least that seems to be the trend with other controversial cases. If Kaepernick was very good, I think teams would be more willing to overlook the perception/media issues. But since he's not likely to be a franchise QB but merely a good backup...even good backups are not worth that kind of trouble, not when a not insignifcant percentage of the general NFL fanbase seems to despise the man and he most likely wouldn't even play.

@Hulk'O'Saurus Memtest86 from the Memtest86 website. You use the included imageusb.exe to burn the image to a USB flash drive (or you can use something like Rufus if you need to do it to a CD/DVD instead), then boot the flash drive (let me know if you need help on figuring that out), start the test after it successfully boots the Rufus interface. If there are any errors at all, the RAM is the problem (and should be re-seated and re-tested one RAM stick at a time and maybe in a different motherboard RAM slot just to rule out any possible interferences).

How did you determine it was the motherboard? I would probably memtest86 as my first step to check the RAM.

I've always wanted to try deep fried turkey, but I've never had the opportunity. I'll get around to it one day. Happy Thanksgiving!