Cell phone crashed desktop computer
August 2nd, 2016
I have this weird problem that if someone calls me on my cell phone, my desktop crashes.
It doesn’t happen always, but 50% of the times someone calls me. Either my PC screen freezes
or I get CRITICAL PROCESS DIED error on Windows 8. The phone is not connected to the computer
in any way… What could cause these crashes? Thanks!
Take a look at your crash logs, if any are being recorded. I’m not sure where they are in Windows 8. Google it.
If the phone isn’t connected to the computer in any way, then I have no idea what it causing the crash. It doesn’t make sense. Are you sure its not connected via bluetooth / or any other wireless method?
Is it definitely your phone, or is it just a coincidence?? Sounds like your convinced that it is your phone. So therefore you have a couple of options to try.
Either turn off your phone for a day, or however long it takes to usually CRASH your computer and then see if the crashing still happens… If it still crashes, then it’s not your phone causing it.
Otherwise you’ll have to try changing your phone, or place your phone further away from your computer.
“Critical process died”… is anything else appearing? any other error message? error code?
It’s probably not your phone at all.
I remember when I used to place my phone underneth my monitor, my monitor used to go NUTS when I received a call… But that was back in the 1999 roughly and my phone had a huge aerial. Nowadays this doesn’t happen any more.
I’m pretty sure it’s either my phone or my speakers reacting to my phone (since they are quite old). But I’m sure the original cause is my phone, since it just freezes the second I get the call.
I didn’t have it when my phone wasn’t here (I just recently reactivated my subscription, so that’s why I’m using my phone now, and not before)….
The Event Viewer only shows me this for the last error; The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000ef (0xfffffa800b175940, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000).
The freezes don’t give me any errors…. I don’t think it can be a coincedence, since it crashed 4-5 times in the last 3-4 days only at the time someone called….