Hi Dave --
Thanks for the tip -- where is this dialog?
I ask because when this stupid shutdown thing started to happen, when the
thing rebooted it would often stop and say that my system was recovering
from a serious system error and that 2 dump files had been saved on my disk,
and asked if I wanted to send them to Microsoft.
Now I did actually send them once, but got an avalanche of flack from
another list for doing so as that would just allow Microsoft to see all the
configuration and installations on my system, and who knows what else. A
paranoia discussion ensued, and finally someone suggested I turn off error
reporting so it would never ask me about sending an error. This I did, but
it still crashes and reboots on a regular basis. In fact it just did not
long ago and I lost a long email I was typing...GRRRRRR
Anyway, if you can point me to this dialog I'd be very appreciative. I
think with all the sys problems I've had recently I've looked through every
options page on the system, but I may have missed something.
Thanks again, and I hope you get your problem solved.
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 3:30 AM
Subject: [guispeak] Re: pc dies while in ie:
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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