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by DannoHung 5896 days ago
Oh, I can, but it was a RAM issue. The fated gray screen of death.

Now, my Windows computer that I built a few months ago for playing games... that'll lock up if, get this, you don't use it for a while. BSOD's when nothing happens. Play a game? You're fine. Leave it sitting for 5 minutes? Drops dead.
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harshpotatoes 5896 days ago
Some hardware might be failing. Have you taken the time to look into the error codes it gives you?

I would also guess that it is trying to use a power saving feature which may not be supported by your computer, as another commenter pointed out.

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DannoHung 5896 days ago
I disabled all the power saving features, at least, all the ones that I could find (don't really care about power saving since I only have it on when I'm either downloading something game related or playing a game).

I did do a search for the error codes and it was just a bunch of people saying, "Hi, I'm getting this error code, help."

It's comforting to know that, no matter what happens, Windows will always suck.

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eru 5896 days ago
Probably something kicks in when it's idle. (Or it's a green powersaving feature.)
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