All right, well my computer shut itself down again. For some reason I didn't get the stop error as mentioned, but I did follow those steps. I wasn't at my computer when this happened, and no large programs were running...just multiple tabs in three browsers, and mlb yahoo stattracker.
When I came back, this browser window was open...
Blue screen error caused by a device or driver
You received this message because a hardware device, its driver, or related software has caused a blue screen error. This type of error means the computer has shut down abruptly to protect itself from potential data corruption or loss. In this case, we were unable to detect the specific device or driver that caused the problem.
From Event Viewer, there is one entry for "Error: System Error", at the time it happened.
From the period of 9:23:26 - 9:24:58 there is a handful of errors, beginning with:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Save Dump
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 9/25/2008
Time: 9:23:27 PM
User: N/A
Computer: Home
Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x100000d1 (0x00000010, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xa1c309f3). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini092508-01.dmp.
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http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Most of the others were Service Control Managers about stuff starting up, like 'iPod service has entered the running state'. However, there were a few other mentionables...
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7026
Date: 9/25/2008
Time: 9:24:26 PM
User: N/A
Computer: Home
Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
ftsata2
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
and finally,
Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 9/25/2008
Time: 9:24:56 PM
User: N/A
Computer: Home
Description:
Error code 100000d1, parameter1 00000010, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 a1c309f3.
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http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 64 100000d
0020: 31 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d 1 Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 30 30 eters 00
0030: 30 30 30 30 31 30 2c 20 000010,
0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 32 00000002
0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000
0048: 30 30 2c 20 61 31 63 33 00, a1c3
0050: 30 39 66 33 09f3
I think its stemming from 'ftsata2' ? There seems to be that same error for the crashes in the past. I'll google it, but if this information tells anybody something, please share with me.
