Here's a brain teaser for power users of MSODS10 (especially) that’s more challenging than wordle
I have 8 year old Fujitsu Celsius workstation …
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5677 @ 3.47GHz 3.46 GHz (2 processors)
Installed RAM 96.0 GB Drive C 2TB
Hardware and drivers all checked out OK
Then around July 9/10th, Windows 10 became unstable and just randomly black screened without any warning or leaving any clues. It restarted cleanly enough, but after 4 years of not ever having to restart a machine other than during formal update processes, this is a PITA. I had a lot of open windows and browser sessions set up and reliably working. And they came back after a controlled restart.
I looked at reliability monitor, there are no formal advisories, just lots of
“The previous system shutdown at 02:41:04 on 10/07/2024 was unexpected.”
I cleared out what startup and other crap I could find but nothing stood out as an obvious issue – failed updates and other stuff – especially software that continually pops up and pesters for updates.
I noted some weirdness with Opus in taskman. And since Opus started with 10 instances on he startbar I thought I should update it in case it was involved in some way. DO13 installed without a murmur, but still black-screening, although from 26/7/24 it was not so random and generally happens in the hour after midnight. 00:04-00.50
I realise even the most hairy arsed veteran power users will probably not be able to glance at this and suggest the gotcha, but I suspect many of you have gathered the best collection of utilities and tools that might help sort this out?
I would be really grateful for any help and sympathy. Some way to trap the crash events would be useful, but I have found nothing so far,
What does “weirdness” mean here? Can you be more specific?
And since Opus started with 10 instances on he startbar
That’s down to your Opus configuration. If it’s set to remember what was open across restarts, and you open new windows without closing the old ones, then it might accumulate windows. The solution is to close them, and/or change Preferences / Launching Opus so the old windows aren’t re-opened.
The PC crashing is unlikely to be related to Opus. Opus doesn’t have any components which run at a low enough level to make the whole operating system crash.
Power useage always tends to be high - and what factors determine what we see on taskman?
I have two virtual desktops - Screen 1 now has 12 DOPUS instances - screen 2 has just 1
This is an overly complex workstation accumulated over 10 years - and progressively upgraded from W7, saner users would have clean installed it many times by now - but this is now a challenge.
I appreciate Opus is very well behaved. I have taken many liberties with it over the years and it has not ever given cause for concern or crashed. There's also a convoluted network to navigate - but how about Google drive?
It just needs a "fix dodgy windows config" button. As I delved deeper into tskman, event viewer and log files it's a miracle Windows works at all.
Task Manager's "power usage" reading is pretty meaningless in general, and would not indicate something causing system instability.
If the CPU usage (not power usage) is high when the program is meant to be idle, that might indicate a problem, but it's also not going to be the cause of system instability.
The system shutdown won't have been caused by Opus. Focus on other parts of the system. Spontaneous shutdowns (if that's what is happening) are more often caused by power supply problems than software. Software tends to crash instead of make the PC turn off entirely.
Google Drive is nothing to do with us. Ask Google about that.
