I know exactly what you mean, the upgrade from 7.1 to 7.1.3 can take a little while....
My white screen crash was actually in server manager though, so I was kind of forced to re-build. Afterall that i found that torrentflux wasn't up to my expectations, it doesn't have a scheduler yet and wasn't as nice to uses as uTorrent. So I'm looking for something else.....trying Azureus and ktorrent, no success yet.