Past few months I occasionally get a pop up with Dr Watson reporting it encountered an error and it then shuts down XI. I recently updated to the new windower and it happens regardless of the version I use. Before this I had never seen this message before. It only closes XI and the file it lists to report is a pol one.
Anyone have any ideas on how I can tell Windows to stop shutting down my game?
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Thats usually indicitive of a driver and or memory error. Your system has a problem, you need to fix it.
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disabling DR.Watson isn't always a wise choice from my experience as it lets you know "Hey something is seriously messed up".
I would suggest updating or checking your driver versions on everything. It's not a bad idea to do it anyways at least once every 6 months to make sure there wasn't a faulty driver.
Run a memory check on your memory modules. memtest32 is a good one, and there are also about a million other ones out there you can download for free. Have it do a full read ad write test to make sure your memory is good and you don't have dead memory blocks.
I would suspect it's hardware because my old machine did this because of a faulty motherboard which was shorting the memory. Sure it ran just fine besides the occasional having to boot it 3 times to get it to stay on lol.
Before you disable look into the issue first, you might have a lot more wrong then you think.
I would suggest updating or checking your driver versions on everything. It's not a bad idea to do it anyways at least once every 6 months to make sure there wasn't a faulty driver.
Run a memory check on your memory modules. memtest32 is a good one, and there are also about a million other ones out there you can download for free. Have it do a full read ad write test to make sure your memory is good and you don't have dead memory blocks.
I would suspect it's hardware because my old machine did this because of a faulty motherboard which was shorting the memory. Sure it ran just fine besides the occasional having to boot it 3 times to get it to stay on lol.
Before you disable look into the issue first, you might have a lot more wrong then you think.
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