Having problems once again with my computer randomly deadlocking. I think it may be impending hardware failure though, because when it happens on windows there is no bluescreen.

I think tonight I'll run memtest86 to see if its the RAM. Don't know what I can do about it if it is the RAM though, because I can't afford any hardware replacements @.@

@Zauberin RAM usually doesn't cause deadlocks, it would corrupt and cause a BSOD

What has caused deadlocks for me has been garbage Broadcom NetExtreme/Killer Ethernet drivers locking a kernel mutex (which is solved by not using it), and a bad SATA device, which also locked a kernel mutex

@Zauberin If you enable manually triggered BSODs docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windo and send me the crash dump, I can look at it before the weekend and see what's causing it to hang

@ChlorideCull Alright, I got the dump file made. How do I send it though? Its about 700 megabytes in size.

@ChlorideCull Thinking though, I wonder if it is a graphics driver issue? Because I recently updated my nVidia driver for both Linux and Windows.

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