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I observed with increasing frequency a complete shutdown of Windows XP followed by a short Blue-screen and reboot. This happend while running audiograbber together with winamp (intended to grab internet-radio). Audiograbber alone worked fine. Inspecting the system I found minidump files in directory C:\windows\minidump with related dates/times. Reading these dump-files with the program WinDbg (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263/EN-US/) the most probable cause for the shutdown was reported to be SiS7012.sys (audio-driver).
After deinstallation SiS7012 driver (System-->Hardware-->Device-Manager-->Audio-Driver-->Sis7012.sys) I started PC in protected mode and reinstalled SiS7012 driver anew (from Sis-Website). Since audiograbber had problems now to locate the reloaded driver, the former also had to reinstalled. Now everything seems to run fine again. Audio-Drivers seem to be prone to cause system-shutdown with minidump-entries, as several discussion threads report dump-records claiming "Probably caused by KMixer.sys".
SiemensFujitsu D-series Windows XP Home edition 5.1.2600 SP2 Build2600 512MByte Processor x86Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel 3197 MHz Bios American Megatrends 1.07 23.12.2004
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