DM60
Well-known member
my windows 10 system is now crashing about 6 times a week.
tonight within 1 hr Ive had 2-windows shutdown-> collecting error info reboots.
when I leave the pc on wifi and get home the screen is always frozen and I reboot.
if I dont leave the system on the internet, turn off wifi....no freezing issues.
so Im now partitioning my problem
1) is it chrome?
closed down chrome and moved to Firefox.
2) is it my hardware overheating or failing?
time will tell (better get my back ups done)
3) it is windows 10 crashing my system
if the crashees continue I will go a week without this pc attached to the internet.
this will refuse all windows updates....
add
4) seems the 4-5 crashes are now all during Yahoo Mail....interesting
or maybe its Windows 10 updates, or maybe I need my Browsers updated or I need my emails updated or my adblock updated or my virus software updated or my firewall updated....or my asshole updated....
Im gettin tired of flooding of updates...
my stratocaster sits here, never needing updated, my Shure KSM mic doesnt need gdconstant updates....my rack gear doesnt need updates every day and crash 16 times a week due to updates not updating well with the other updates needed.
I might do what I should have done a 100yrs ago and never put the internet on my recording pc.
My cheap Chromebook $150 laptop has never crashed like this...and if it gets slow I wipe it clean.
5) turn off wifi and internet connections and shut down all updates on this pc!!
this option has the highest probabilty of fixing the crashing system problem...
As a general rule with Win7 and later (to include 10), computer crashing is 99% of the time hardware failure. If it had been running OK, then starts crashing, then you can bet you has something up in your hardware. Drivers can cause crashes, but that is rare and once again often times it is due to hardware failure.
To date, since Win7, I have only had crashes when my hardware was failing.