[captainfearless]

Posting this to see if anyone knows the cause, and if i need to act to prevent it from reoccurring.

Mid movie last night my pc rebooted and would not output via hdmi thereafter (screen remained black), when i rebooted, several times it repeated this cycle then after a few minutes when it fired up XBMC had reverted to Confluence (my skin of choice being Influence) and all my settings were lost, everything default like a new install. No system restore points were available. Ran windows repair disc and It 'could not repair', but after reboot the system stayed on.

Have run virus/spyware/registery scans now and all seems well again.

Any theorys ?

Sorry, i committed the cardinal sin and forgot to include my system specs, slaps head.

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit/CCL tower unit/Sapphire hd5450 Radeon graphics card/AMD Athlon 64 x 2 dual core processor 2.70 ghz 2 gb RAM

[captainfearless]

This happened again tonight, PC restarted during movie, and luckily worked afterwards this time, really annoying though.

One thing i noticed was that it did not remember my stop point in the movie, like we'd never watched it.

I'll post a log tomorrow. (should have in the first place!)

[captainfearless]

http://pastebin.com/7v7FZr7C

Does this standard log offer any explanation, or do i need to enable debug log and wait for it to happen again?

Thanks in advance.

[ArieS]

You got a BSOD (or several, it seems). It happened to me in the past. Also had the same 'could not repair' message.
Since I wanted to get a SSD, I figured it was a good time to do it. Since the new drive and of course a new install of Win 7, no more problems like that.
In the meantime you should backup your userdata folder so you won't lose all your settings...

[captainfearless]

Haven't actually seen a single blue screen, and always it fires back up, last night right away and i finished the movie.

Will get a new tower if i have to, but is that my only option?

[hansdampf]

it sounds like your hd is giving up. had this same problem. check your system event log for disk errors.

[captainfearless]

Thanks guys, i'll check that log.

Ran normally last night so fingers crossed!