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photon · 09-19-2014, 12:33 PM

I have a weird issue that I just discovered last week. I was trying to use resource monitor to figure out which app had a file open. Open Resource Monitor, switch to CPU tab, and start typing into the search box of the associated handles area and I got a blue screen. First blue screen I'd ever seen on Windows 8!

APC_INDEX_MISMATCH

Did it a few times after reboots and got the same, oh well figured it out another way just filed that away as weird.

Today I wanted to use Cpu-Z, and it hung on startup. I rebooted and tried HWMonitor, and that hung a bunch of my apps.

Before I start ripping out hardware to try and debug it, sound familiar to anyone? Kind of feels like a hardware problem rather than a software one, but a hardware problem that only manifests when trying to get some info about the hardware?? Very weird.

09-19-2014, 12:33 PM	#1
photon The new goggles also do nothing. Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Calgary Exp:	Strange Computer Problem - Hardware? I have a weird issue that I just discovered last week. I was trying to use resource monitor to figure out which app had a file open. Open Resource Monitor, switch to CPU tab, and start typing into the search box of the associated handles area and I got a blue screen. First blue screen I'd ever seen on Windows 8! APC_INDEX_MISMATCH Did it a few times after reboots and got the same, oh well figured it out another way just filed that away as weird. Today I wanted to use Cpu-Z, and it hung on startup. I rebooted and tried HWMonitor, and that hung a bunch of my apps. Before I start ripping out hardware to try and debug it, sound familiar to anyone? Kind of feels like a hardware problem rather than a software one, but a hardware problem that only manifests when trying to get some info about the hardware?? Very weird. __________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.