Bittorrent crashing windows xp

[Switeck]

mikeyr2002,

What's the speed of your connection up and down?

What settings are you using (all those shown by Speed Guide)?

[lucky12680]

I too am having this exact same problem.

I am running Win XP Home Edition SP2.

It started when I was using BitTorrent, so I decided to uninstall BitTorrent and start using utorrent. Unfortunately, the same problem still exists.

[Switeck]

lucky12680,

It may be your ISP is now throttling BitTorrent traffic.

Have you done any searches on the subject both here and via Google?

[neosupreeth]

my pc also crashed. i had posted in another topic and i was asked to diable auto restart. and i ended up gettign a blue screen in XP for the first time!!!

[Firon]

Please write down the error messages.

For the record, µTorrent isn't actually the root cause of the error, something else is. It just happens to trigger it.

[Man-El]

Same problem here. I usually leave the PC on during the night (happy hours) and ever since I updated to 1.6.1 the computer crashes. I can't give you the error message because it always happens when I'm sleeping.

But I do know that it's being caused by uTorrent because it only crashes when uTorrent is running.

If I get to see the message, I'll post it.

Meanwhile, I've tried all the possible solutions suggested in this topic, but none of them work.

[Firon]

If you turn off automatic rebooting, the error will stay there until you wake up.

[Man-El]

Ok. I disabled auto reboot and this is what I get in the blue screen:

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NOPAGED_AREA

Does anyone know what this means?

[Firon]

http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?query=PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA&x=0&y=0&catalog=LCID%3D1033&spid=&qryWt=&mode=r&cus=False

[Man-El]

Thanks, but that doesn't really solve my problem. According to the Microsoft Knowledge Base, there are about a gazillion different things that can cause the "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NOPAGED_AREA" error. And most of them refer to Windows 2000 or NT... I have Windows XP SP2 and the computer only crashes when uTorrent is running.

Even if I close all unnecessary applications, as well as Zone Alarm (using Windows Firewall instead), I still get the blue screen. Again, this only started to happen since I upgraded to 1.6.1.

Any ideas?

[DreadWingKnight]

Uninstall zonealarm so its operating system hooks actually get removed.

Find out what .sys file is referenced in the bluescreen error if there is one and work from there.

[neosupreeth]

I Give Up !!!!

[Spark_of_Ice]

Hi,

I'm dealing with quite-the-similar problem. I just freshly installed Windows XP (Updated with SP2) and got a virus scanner running (and updated) as soon as I installed XP. I am quite sure that there is absolutely no virii on my machine, and my virus scanner (NOD32) hasn't detected anything suspicious either.

So what's the problem exactly? I run uTorrent, download a file, and after about 15 minutes the system crashes--no reboot, no error message, just a frozen screen. I have a feeling it's got to do with the maximum number of connections, peers, ya-da-da; but I am no expert. I had this problem maybe a year and a half ago with the same PC and I fixed it by limiting a certain number or what not.

But I have forgotten all of that. What can I do to stop this madness? Where shall I start? I'll begin by limiting the "Global maximum number of connections." I'll post the results shortly.

[Spark_of_Ice]

Used BitComet, and now Azureus but still having that crashing problem. Disabled all firewalls and forwarded ports to the client. Disabled uPnP mapping and lowered max connections to 10. Half-Open TCP connections are limited and I patched the maximum allowed to 50, so there should be no problem there.

Hmm. This is terrible.

[Switeck]

NOD32 seems to be a problem-causer for many people who've posted to these message forums:

http://forum.utorrent.com/search.php?search_id=891479238

[skyrien]

I for one have been dealing with this for more than 6 months. And many other people seem to be having the same problem.

Here's one forum that's found a solution: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/387894.html

They narrowed it down to a NIC driver problem, I'm hoping that I'm having the same issue... rollbacks or updates seem fix it.

[DMBFan41]

Well, I hate to dig up the dead, but I hate to start a new thread for an old problem. For a year-and-a-half or so, I've been using uTorrent without incident. However, this weekend, my computer started crashing if uT was running. Previous to this, I routinely encountered the '48-hour crash' problem, but had always attributed it to Windows, until I read that it could be linked to this as well. Invariably, uT starts up just fine. But after a few moments, one of my torrents loses its trackers. A couple of minutes later, another one. Then another, until they're all red, and the BSOD appears.

I've done some research, and I understand this isn't caused directly by uTorrent. However, it only occurs with uT active, and I'm running out of options. I've updated my drivers. I uninstalled ZoneAlarm. I reinstalled ZoneAlarm. I applied the Lvllord patch. uT continues to start dropping trackers just after starting it up. Eventually all my torrents - up and down - go red, and I get either a PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSOD (when just uTorrent is running), or BAD_POOL_CALLER (occured when I had Firefox open during the crash.) Can anyone suggest where to go from here?

Some information:

HP Pavillion d9000t, Intel Core 2 T5600 @ 1.83GHZ, 2 GB RAM (upgrade from 1 GB last year), Windows XP MCE SP2, 100GB HD, approx. 20.2 GB free...

uTorrent 1.7.7

ZoneAlarm 7.0.473.000

AVG 7.5.524

Linksys WRT54GS ver. 6 router

Any other information you might need, just ask...

P.S. - I just turned off Spybot S&D Resident, and for a minute, everything looked good. Red torrents went blue or green again. But after about 5 min., the red arrows started coming back.

[jewelisheaven]

RAM or dying hardware then... you ran a mem tester and verified all your hardware looks OK (no burn spots)?

[DMBFan41]

That's the next thing I need to do. What's the best way to go about it?

[Firon]

Uninstall Zone Alarm and keep it off your machine.

[DMBFan41]

What's a good uT-friendly alternative?

[Firon]

Well, I just meant for the moment to see if it's related to your crashes at all... It might very well not be.

Just run without a firewall for a bit.

But uh, Comodo works well. There's even setup instructions for it here. http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=292343#p292343

[DMBFan41]

I did that earlier, but the issues continued, however...

As ashamed as I am to admit it, this may have been a speed issue...

When I originally installed uT ~ 1 1/2 years ago, I had tweaked the speed settings beyond that of the speed guide. I just went back and ran a few speed tests, and let that control my settings, and since then, everything is beautiful. DHT is disabled, but I turned UPnP back on, with no noticeable difference. I tweaked the connections a little bit more, but I've been running for close to 30 min. without issue. In fact, I'm getting more and faster connections than I ever remember seeing.

UPDATE:

I may have spoken too soon. No problems with red arrows this time, but just after I finished this post...

BSOD...

STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0x00E3E1CD, 0xF78CAC84, 0xF78CA9801)

No PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA or BAD_POOL_CALLER or anything, except for the message about drivers in the STOP.

UPDATE:

10+ hours and going strong with the new settings. As long as I don't browse for too long, everything runs okay. Maybe this was a combination of bad settings and network problems, as the network had refreshed at some point during the night, but nothing crashed. Any idea why Firefox + uT would cause the crash? (I'm not sure if it's just Firefox, or any browser).

UPDATE (6/4/08):

BAD_POOL_CALLER crash again this morning, and another one just before noon. Uninstalled ZA completely and switched to Windows' firewall. Tweaked the settings a little, but something def. happened last night, because it seems like my seeding torrents are having a problem maintaining their connections (nothing downloading right now). Yesterday, when I started uT, the files picked up right away, spiked, then leveled out @ around 72. Today, they take a few seconds to connect, then the speeds take a while to build and sustain. They'll run up to 50-60, then come back down, go away, then come back and run up again. Eventually they level out. The only change I made was creating an RSS feed last night.

Suggestions, anyone?

[stormage]

Hi, though late, I would like to share my solution to lots of computer crashes I've experienced with uTorrent running in the background.

So here's the deal, and I hope it would help some of you!

Winxp sp3, very low configuration, 256MB of RAM, Intel Pentium 3-866 MHZ.

The machine had crashed only when uTorrent was on with high speed downloads (600-700 KB/s) - That's Bytes and not bits guys, and every time it came back on, an error message was generated telling me that the machine had crashed due to a fatal error, and a dump file had been saved.

I've done so many checkups, RAM testing, lots of uninstall and reinstall of softwares, and drivers.

In order to make the long story short, I won't walk you through the hell and frustration I had experienced, and so, here is the solution that helped me.

I've stumbled upon a very useful tiny and free software called BlueScreenView, and according to its documentation it can compile the info from all of the dump files (dmp extension) and show it using a very friendly GUI, allowing both experts and novices to get some idea and more, about the possible reason/s for the ongoing crashes.

The thing that immediately catched my eyes while I was viewing the report issued by BlueScreenView, was a driver associated with NetLimiter. NetLimiter is a Network Traffic Monitoring tool, that I've been using for years including on my newest machine with WINDOWS 7, and I had never had any problems with it whatsoever.

As it turned out, NetLimiter installs a driver of its own that functions as a wrapper driver on the NIC, so it can manipulate it, to get info about the network usage etc.

That driver kept crashing my system, and I just had no idea.

Anyway I had removed NetLimiter completely from my machine, and it's all going smoothly 24/7 ever since, life's good. :D

Hope that helps guys