Hi Axe0,
Thank you very much for your advice, and sorry it took a while to get back, it took me longer than I had hoped to figure out how to boot into DOS for the SeaTools test. I have now:
Applied all Win 8 Updates
Disabled some unnecessary startup items in Task Mgr
Did not uninstall ASUS...
Dear Helpers,
That's weird, sorry I didn't notice it was empty. Tried running DM Log Collector from the Desktop two more times, kept making an empty ZIP. Ran it instead from inside \Windows\Minidump, worked fine. Which helped me notice one more odd behavior my computer now seems to have...
Dear Crash Analyzers,
Thank you very much in advance for your assistance, really impressed that you would devote some of your precious time to helping others here. A couple of days ago, after leaving my Asus laptop Locked but running, I came back to find it had crashed and re-booted on its own...