How Do I Determine Which Hardware or Drivers Are Crashing My Vista?
- 1). Click "Start," type "Perfmon" into the search box at the bottom of the Start menu and click the "Perfmon" shortcut that appears at the top of the Start menu.
- 2). Expand the "Monitoring Tools" folder in the sidebar and select "Reliability Monitor."
- 3). Select a day a crash occurred by clicking it on the graph. Days with information hardware or operating system failures have an "X" icon in the Hardware Failures or Windows Failures rows below them.
- 4). Expand the "Hardware Failures" or "Windows Failures" section in the System Stability Report section below the graph by clicking it.
- 5). Read the information about the crash available in the System Stability Report section.
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