You could try a BIOS update, but it's probably not necessary. It's only when you leave the computer alone for 12 hours? Not when you're doing something demanding with it, like playing a game? If that's the case, it's probably not overstressed hardware.
You can run a chkdsk to see if the Windows install disk is corrupted. You may also want to defrag if you don't do that regularly. When is your computer scheduled to sleep and/or hibernate? It's possible the problem occurs when the computer tries to change power states.
After you run chkdsk, do a virus scan with a good AV program (like Antivir) and do a malware scan with something like Spybot S&D. Then, make sure Windows updates are applied and update all of your drivers. Sounds silly, but it it'll establish a good baseline. Also, install the latest version of Intel RST if you haven't done so already.
Ok I was able to run chkdisk returned no errors as well.
I check the fragmentation on the drives weekly, checked them again this morning I have 1% or less fragmentation.
I have disabled sleep and hibernation modes because sometimes I have to remote desktop (using LogMeIn) from work or if I am way on the weekends.
All windows updates should be installed (I'll double check tonight). I did an virus scan with Avast and ran Spyware Terminator as well. I will give it a try with the programs you recommended as well.
I'll double check if I have the most up to date drivers and Intel RST tonight as well.
Yeah, if it's that consistent (every 12 hours or so), it's probably software related. Since the minidump references your page file, I'm curious to see whether the issues go away if you set the page file to reside on another hard drive. You do this by going to System properties, Advanced, Performance settings, Advanced, then Change Virtual memory settings. Set no page file on the primary drive and a system managed size page file on one of your other drives.
An export of your System and Application event logs might also be of some help. Do you remember installing any new hardware, drivers, or software prior to these BSOD's occurring?
The other thing to do is to try to reproduce this on demand. On a freshly booted system, try running continuous benchmarks from a benchmarking suite such as Sandra Lite and see whether any test in particular triggers the BSOD.
I wouldn't say it's consistent, but when I would get the blue screen my computer usually has been on for 12+ hours. Usually there is no load, since I keep it on if I have to remote desktop to it.
I will change the drive where the page file resides as suggested as well as the back to back benchmarking. The thing is that I never have this issue while gaming, video encoding, 3d rendering, running vmachines etc. Its always when the computer has been at idle for a while, aprox. 12 or more hours.
This morning another idea came to my mind. I remember reading, a member here if I am not mistaking, was trying to do a raid array with 2 WD drives. I my memory serves me right they were the caviar black. He way saying the one of the drives (in not both) would drop out of the array due to power saving or stand by feature that WD has on their drives. So I was thinking is it possible that the secondary drive I have to be going in power saving mode since the OS might not be reading/writing to it for the extended periods of time that the computer is on, which might lead to a blue screen? Its just an idea, want to see if you guys think this might be a possible cause.
Thank you all very much for the help so far
