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Offline First John

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Avast crashing my system
« on: February 18, 2005, 11:02:07 PM »
HIi: I had this appended to somone else's thread, & thought it might
be better if I started another thread specific to this problem.

I am back using avast again, V4.5 (very recently downloaded).

3 times today my system crashed.  I was using QuickPar to repair a large download.
& at the same time I was moving some small files from a DVDrom to my hardrive.

I went to the watercloset, came back, & MS was doing a repair scan of my HD.

I let things reboot, & started over with the Quickpar repair & the file moving,
piucked up my book, found my place where I left off, & boom, down she goes,
reboot, longer repair time.  And again the third time, downloading files, & doing
a Quickpar repair.

From past observations, if this happens 2 more times I am dead in the water.
Please let me know what log files you need, & how to configure Avast 4 home to
produce those logs.

I am running a gigabyte MB with an athlonn 2400 all software updates.
768 meg of ram (3*256 meg, all tested fine) no memory shortage by my
memory monitor.

Thanks

First John

a quick follow up, i scanned everything using spybot, & nothing seems to be lurking.
I just had another crash, copying files from a dvdrom, nothing else happening that I
have started.  I grabbed a folder with 700 or so folders, 4-10 files in each.  It ran for
roughly 200 of the folders, then crashed.

Could there be too much activity & Avast simply shuts everything down?

I will try closing my firewall & disabling avast & see where that goes.

Just got back from shutting off my firewall, & disabling Avast.
The dvd copied flawlessly,  no hiccups, nothing.  Then when I
went to enable Avast I got a error from windows explorer that
there was a corrupled message in Avast & windows explorer
crashed.

Any suggerstions would be nice?


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Re: Avast crashing my system
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2005, 11:45:24 PM »
Hello John,
please look at \program files\alwil software\avast4\data\log directory for unp* files - are there any from time when your crash has occured ? Or was that blue-screen crash ? If yes, look at \windows\minidump folder. Thanks.

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Re: Avast crashing my system
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2005, 02:28:33 AM »
Please, with what do I open the mini dump files?


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Re: Avast crashing my system
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2005, 11:14:51 AM »
You don't have to open them, just tell pk if there are any of such files and if so if one (or more) are dated/timed at the same time of the crashes.
« Last Edit: February 19, 2005, 11:24:10 AM by Eddy »

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Re: Avast crashing my system
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2005, 11:20:32 AM »
FirstJohn: as Eddy said, if they're dated at time where your computer could crash, send me them on my email. Thanks.
« Last Edit: April 15, 2006, 01:32:01 PM by pk »

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Re: Avast crashing my system
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2005, 03:59:51 PM »
Ok! I just forwarded 3 files via email...............

Thanks
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Re: Avast crashing my system
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2005, 04:37:42 PM »
Thanks for minidumps - but it looks like hardware (memory ?) problem (e.g. one crash appeared when system wanted to free memory) - time among those 3 crashes was quite little (20hours) - every one on different place, did you do a hardware changes ?

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Re: Avast crashing my system
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2005, 04:38:16 PM »
pk, can you get me the dumps, too?
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Re: Avast crashing my system
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2005, 09:57:54 PM »
no hardware changes, & I'm running a small memory monitor,
it shows me running with 300 - 400 meg free, even just before
the crashing...

If it looks like a bad Simm/Dimm, I'll start removing them 1 at a time.
until the bad one shows up...

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Re: Avast crashing my system
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2005, 10:01:54 PM »
That would definitely be helpful. :)
I'd LOVE to know if this really is a hardware problem or not.
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Re: Avast crashing my system
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2005, 10:05:14 PM »
how do you dare to doubt ? :D

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Re: Avast crashing my system
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2005, 10:07:00 PM »
Because the 2nd minidump is the crash I've been chasing for YEARS - the aswMon2!DestroyPathHashEntries one.
I'd love to have confirmed that those crashes are indeed caused by faulty RAM (or other hw problem)...
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Re: Avast crashing my system
« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2005, 10:14:27 PM »
That function is called every 10mins, the calling in 2nd minidump was the first one after reboot - ok, it may not mean anything, but how do you explain 1st and 3rd dump - different places/in memory fncs; i dont think he was a victim of your famous mysterious bug ;). We'll see.

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Re: Avast crashing my system
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2005, 01:59:20 AM »
The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little bit longer    ;D


I'm working night shift tonight, & will be brain dead for a day or 2.
However I will also start swappoing out ram.  I will pull out all the
ram from this machine & put in the 512K from my other unit & see
how that goes,  if there is no problems, I will add in another 256
at random & see what happens.

Meanwhile, one of my workmates is experiencing the start of what I
am going through, his problems on a brand new HP notebook.

First John


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Re: Avast crashing my system
« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2005, 03:24:59 AM »
There is a util which may be helpfull to you to test the mem
Memtest86