Windows 7 Blue Screen STOP: 0x000000F4: No Dump File 0xc0000010

[jonathanp55]

So I have a Blue Screen problem on my computer. Specs are Alienware M17xR3, Windows 7 64bit, 16GB Ram, AMD Radeon HD 6870M, Intel Core I7 Quad. So my computer sometimes after sitting for a while will freeze up and give me the Blue Screen. At times, the computer will just stop responding and everything will freeze up, no blue screen. No dump files are being created. Tried to get dump file from BlueScreenReader and nothing. Just took screenshot of crash its attached. Before this happened, The screen was doing some flickering, but it stopped. Not sure if this is related. I did install an extra 4GB of ram, but everything seemed to go just fine. Blue Screen code STOP: 0x000000F4 then at the bottom No Dump File 0xc0000010.

[recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin]

[patio]

0x000000F4: CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION
(Click to consult the online MSDN article.)
One of the many processes or threads crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or been terminated. As a result, the system can no longer function. Specific causes are many, and often best resolved by a careful history of the problem and the circumstances of the error message. One user, who experienced this on return from Standby mode on Win XP SP2, found the cause was that Windows was installed on a slave drive; compare KB 330100.

Was there another HDD connected to this PC at some point ? ?

[jonathanp55]

I had a Portable 1TB harddrive connected through USB. Just to drag and drop files between. and a USB pendrive. that is it.

[Matt_Gardener]

Were there any programs running at the time?

My HP Laptop has blue screened over 5 times over the 1.5 yrs I've had it, and normally it's when I'm running photoshop + streaming a youtube video + another high cpu program.

[patio]

So just to clarify...there was never another HDD with an installed OS on this PC ? ?
This is a rare error message for Win7...more common for XP so you may want to DLoad and run the Free HDD diagnostics from the manuf. site...run the long test.