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Posted by Dr Zoidberg on 10/03/06 11:38
Gunther Gloop wrote:
> (I know the following belongs in a "more expert" group, but I much
> prefer asking the opinion of people who don't spend a good deal of
> time reading this kind of thing -it can lead to snottiness of the
> worst sort in my experience. I'd rather self-destruct than suffer
> those comic-book-guy taunts.)
>
> Anyway (look away now if you don't want to read PC-woes)...
>
> I reinstalled XP around 2 months ago (in a seperate directory on the
> same C:), following a crash & system-files corruption.
>
> Since then I've been having problems with my usb ports -they work,
> then don't intermittently. I bought a 4-port usb pci-card. That works
> -but sometimes peripherals aren't "picked up" until I unplug them
> after booting, then slot them back in. !
>
> But to cap it all... I'm getting seemingly-random system crashes!
> I could be merrily typing away (on this post even -so I'm regularly
> saving to the Drafts folder as I go) when suddenly -BLACK SCREEN...
> System reset... back to boot-up (all without my intervention).
>
> For the past few weeks I've been getting roughly 1-per day. This
> morning I've had 2 already!
Faulty PSU
--
Alex
"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away"
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