-=PCTechTalk=- Re: After formatting woes..
- From: "Chris Spotta" <chris@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0100
Memory is also still a firm favourite.
Have you tried taking out all new memory so the machine is back to how it
was pre Friday, with just the old ram in it?
Also I have had machines where they only had one major crash, but the crash
caused damage to data on the hard drive which then caused random problems -
try doing a check disk.
From within windows you do this by My Computer > Right click C: Drive >
Properties > Tools > Error Checking Check Now - and then ticking both boxes
in the window that come up. It will tell you it can't be run and would you
like to run it when the machine reboots, say yes and reboot.
Be aware depending on hard drive size and if it finds errors and needs to
fix them, this can take between 20mins and 3Hours. Do not turn the machine
off while it is running the disk check - you will lose data.
Regards
Chris
chris@xxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Janette
Sent: 25 October 2005 22:18
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: After formatting woes..
Hi there,
Things just seems to be going from bad to worse. My pc is also rebooting
every few hours, randomly. I did add a gfx card last weekend and that worked
okay all last week. Then we added some ram on friday and all the crashing
programs and rebooting began. We took the new ram stick out and my husband
replaced it, but it's still reboots. I'm going to take it out again and
leave it out. Maybe my motherboard doesn't like the 3rd 512mb stick?
About the programs, I am using the latest Firefox. All the crashes just
happens randomly, but most of the time it's when I am clicking to close an
app or something like that. It doesn't seem to reboot on it's own, but with
that said it rebooted in the night when I was afk.
Janette
~*~
On 10/25/05, ~OoO~ <sirtroth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hey Janette...
>
> What are the errors saying?
>
> Are you installing the latest versions of the programs you mentioned? =
> Firefox is no longer in beta... you're not installing the beta version =
> that you may have saved somewhere, are you?
>
> When did the errors start popping up? Did you notice if it started =
> happening after installing a specific app?
>
> Are you getting the errors on ANYTHING you start, or only specific =
> programs? Or, rather, is it random, sometimes happening sometimes not?
>
> ---Troth
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx =
> [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Janette
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:15 AM
> To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: -=3DPCTechTalk=3D- After formatting woes..
>
> Hi PCTechTalkers,
> I formatted over the weekend and now after I've reinstalled Firefox, Msn
> Messenger and PSPX sometimes when I click on something the programs just
> "encounter an error" and crash. It's happening all the time and I don't =
> know
> what to do. Could anyone suggest anything? I'm using WinXp Pro with SP2.
> Thanks
> Janette
> ~*~
>
> PS : I hope this email comes through. My emails from my isp internet =
> email
> acc just keeps bouncing back.
>
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