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    My win7 64bit PC recently began freezing and sometimes rebooting on it's own.  It seems to be consistently reproducable when I run a backup, either using Retrospect or the Windows 7 backup function.  It also seems to occur when I'm backing up a large data set but not it I backup a smaller data set. 

    I don't recall any updates to the retrospect software between when it was problem free and when this started.  But I did have windows automatically applying updates prior to the problem started, so quite likely there was a change applied on the OS. 

    I also run McAfee security for AV, spam, etc. 

    I ran chksdk on the SSD boot drive and made sure it has the latest firmware.  Ran a memtest which showed 100% pass. 

    I see a VSS error "Unexpected error querying for the IVssWriterCallback interface.  hr = 0x80070005, Access is denied'  although this appears to be right after the reboot.

    The event that appears to come right before the reboot is:   "The backing-file for the real-time session "WDC.BE95A9B1-DE15-4B78-B923-A12AB70BE951" has reached its maximum size. As a result, new events will not be logged to this session until space becomes available. This error is often caused by starting a trace session in real-time mode without having any real-time consumers"

    Any suggestions???

    Thursday, October 11, 2012 3:29 AM

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    Mike you have several things which need examination

    1-Retrospect.  What version?  Is it compatibile wioth win 7

    2-Mcaffee.  Again what version?  McAffee is know for instability issues (and BSOD's).  Suggest MSE at least to test

    McAfee is a frequent cause of BSOD's.  I would remove and replace it with Microsoft Security Essentials AT LEAST TO TEST!

    http://download.mcafee.com/products/licensed/cust_support_patches/MCPR.exe

    http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/


    3-SSD.  Do you have the most current firmware?  SSD's with old firmware are "problematic" in win 7

    4-Lets run a system file check to verify the OS.

    I would also run a system file check to verify and repair the OS files


    Run a system file check to verify and repair your system files.

    To do this type cmd in search, then right click to run as administrator, then
    SFC /SCANNOW

    It may need to be run up to three times before successful
    Let us know the results from the report at the end

     Read here for more information
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833

    MS-MVP 2010, 2011, 2012 Sysnative.com Team ZigZag

    • Marked as answer by Juke Chou Sunday, November 11, 2012 9:45 AM
    Thursday, October 11, 2012 10:27 AM