I keep having stability issues. I've update all my drivers, have Zonealarm as a firewall, and have the newest AVG. Everytime I run AVG I walk away for like 30 minutes or so, or auto-scan with it overnight, and when I check it it says 'avgscan.exe' has had a problem and had to close. I think I fixed the problem with it. But Today I was installing the orange box and went away for like an hour and came back and my computer was booting up. It said windows had recovered from a serious error, and when I sent the report. the microsoft page said that the windows error report was corrupt. What should I download, a registry cleaner, etc.? I need free stuff. When I said I update all my drivers I meant only my graphics card and motherboard. I'm a liar.


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ok now I ran a game I was playing earlier today and got the BSOD for a split second and my comp restarted. got the 'serious error' thing, but it didnt open up the microsoft page to tell me whats the dealio.

ok avg is running fine so far, it kept getting the error at my inform7 installer (that text-based game maker), so I deleted it and its keepin' on scanning. save me goat,use your mod powers and save me, and my computer i guess.

avg scanned the whole comp fine and came up with nothin'

I got it to run fully yesterday and it came up with nothing. But this morning it said the avgscanx.exe serious error thing, from the autoscan. Keep in mind I reformatted like, 3-4 days ago. And I've kept AVG and Zonealarm and stuff up to date since I reinstalled windows 3-4 days ago.

Vista is the only security software I need.
























... sorry. If you're running XP, NOD32 is a great antivirus program that doesn't use much system resources. Just whatever you do, stay the fuck away from McAffe and Norton. They will kill your love for your computer.

are you certain this is a virus? there is a slight chance this may be a hardware problem (guessing ram or HD issue). you should run checkdisk from boot to make sure there are no bad hard drive sectors. since avg is always dying though, it probably is a virus. use an online scanner to be sure of this though, and to target the right virus, i would recommend:

http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

http://www.pandasecurity.com/activescan/index/

Your issue is definitely hardware, in my opinion, so it's nothing software messing it up like your OS, a virus, adware, or ANY data on your HDD. It could be your HDD itself, or even bad memory/CPU/Motherboard. If you could get a hold of spares of any from your friends just to test out, that would be ideal. However, you are having very serious system issues, and if you dont have any parts to swap in to help narrow the problem, I can only recommend you take your system to a certified repair shop where they can find out what the deal is. They have not only professional tools that most of us in the forum don't have, but they'll have physical access to the thing so you can get it fixed and not have to keep relying on forum replies for your (possibly related) issues. This is a great forum for helping people with random computer problems, but it is not the best place to find an answer for a problem so serious and hard to diagnose as this. It's nothing to be ashamed of. I did it recently with my newest system only to find out the motherboard was faulty. Best do it while you're still covered by the guarantees!

I doubt its the hardive, I bought it like a week ago or something. And stuff like this happened before on my old hardrive. Nothing bad has happened all day on it, so I think the only thing wrong is the avgscanx.exe thing. i finally found out that i can change restart settings so if i get a bsod it wont restart and I can actually look at that crap. if it happens again i'll test the ram and stuff. thanks goat, and 1/4 thanks gz.