Nomad of Norad
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Okay, yesterday Windows updated my machine to version 17763.437, and after that I have had an issue where it will suddenly lock up the entire machine and go to a loud electronic-buzzing noise from the speakers, forcing me to hit the Reset button on my case. When it did this yesterday, I figured it was a video driver issue, so I downloaded and installed the latest official driver from nVidia, but today it did it again.
In both instances, I was in Second Life on the Firestorm viewer, in a music club, listening to the streaming music, and it happened within a few moments of me being there. I have been extensively in Firestorm the rest of last night, though in much less involving locations than in a music club. (The in world music clubs tend to have a LOT of visual stuff going on, like lights whirling around, and moving graphics all over the place.) Bear in mind, it has NEVER done this crash until after yesterday's Windows update, and I have gone to that exact same club for YEARS several times a week without anything remotely like this happening. I honestly don't know if its something strictly related to the streaming audio (it is literally just playing an Internet radio station), or something in the graphics-intensive activities on screen there, but again, it has ONLY BEEN doing this since the new update of Windows, so I'm guessing its a fouled up driver issue somewhere.
Where should I be looking? Is there a diagnostics program I can try running to narrow this down?
In both instances, I was in Second Life on the Firestorm viewer, in a music club, listening to the streaming music, and it happened within a few moments of me being there. I have been extensively in Firestorm the rest of last night, though in much less involving locations than in a music club. (The in world music clubs tend to have a LOT of visual stuff going on, like lights whirling around, and moving graphics all over the place.) Bear in mind, it has NEVER done this crash until after yesterday's Windows update, and I have gone to that exact same club for YEARS several times a week without anything remotely like this happening. I honestly don't know if its something strictly related to the streaming audio (it is literally just playing an Internet radio station), or something in the graphics-intensive activities on screen there, but again, it has ONLY BEEN doing this since the new update of Windows, so I'm guessing its a fouled up driver issue somewhere.
Where should I be looking? Is there a diagnostics program I can try running to narrow this down?
