le,
There is a place on the system to decide what to do when the system
encounters an error in xp at least. One of the options in that dialog is
believe it or not rebboot. another is shut down and another is generate
error report. I think it is an error reporting dialog, but have not yet
found it again to see if it will help with my system.
Thanks for the log suggestion. I have to turn it back on first, but
since
I got an actual message and had it read, I can say with some certainty
that I'll probably have to refresh the os. The problem seems to lie with
fast-fat.sys.
On Nov 23, 2004, at 10:03 PM, Laura Eaves wrote:
Hi Dave -- Sorry you're having this problem -- but be thankful it's not
doing what my PC has been doing -- just restarting for no reason in the
middle of what I'm doing. It does it sometimes several times a day, and
I
believe it's a hardware problem.
I have bought a new laptop and am in the process of transfering over and
getting rid of my old pc to someone who likes to tinker with buggy
machines.
Sorry I'm not more help. After paying a lot for tech support I've given
up on this one.
But if you'd like, try taking a look at the log and see if it says
anything better than "fatal error".
(Don't you hate those terse messages????)
Good luck.
--le
----- Original Message ----- From: "david poehlman"
<david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "GUISPEAK List" <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:21 AM
Subject: [guispeak] pc dies while in ie:
Hi all,
We've got a well maintained p4 2.4ghz system with 512mb of ram and an 80
gb
hd running xp pro sp1 with all updates that are possible without going
to
sp2 and for no apparent reason while on the web, the pc scrren will go
black
with a message requiring us to cold boot the pc to get it running again.
I'm looking at the issue but would appreciate any tips. I have not yet
looked at the recovery process to see if the system is shutting down or
attempting to shut down rather than doing some auto recovery.
Thanks!
Johnnie Apple Seed
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