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Posted by RobertJM on 10/03/06 12:30
"Gunther Gloop" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:4oeuneFee5ddU1@individual.net...
> (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!
> There seems to be no common thread -although for some (perhaps unrelated)
> reason, Firefox also crashes very regularly -which doesn't cause a system
> crash, I just have to restart that prog.
>
>
> A few months back I replaced my graphics card with a (fanless) Gigabyte
> Nvidia GeForece6600. I'm thinking that it's _possible_ these faults
> (including the initial crash that caused corruption) has something to do
> with that... but since I no longer have the older card, I can't easily
> check/replace it now.
> These crashes don't only happen when the unit is "overheating" though -I
> haven't done anything to cause any real 'graphics-intense' work in the
> past while... mainly for fear of crashing.
>
>
> My "hope" is that these problems are all caused by some corrupt system
> files that I didn't get rid of on my last system reinstall (actually, I
> installed as a seperate operating system on the same drive if I remember
> correctly -don't ask why- for a while I was getting the option of 2 boot
> OSes, with only the new one working of course).
>
> I do intend to get a loan of another graphics card. Also, probably
> reinstall Windows (and suffer calls to Microsoft to reActivate).
> But in the meantime, I was hoping someone might have other suggestions...
> good 'system-clean' apps, registry switches to check, plugholes to fill,
> etc. ?
>
> Any help much appreciated,
>
> -Kevin.
>
>
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>
You could give this a go, if you haven't already.
http://www.ccleaner.com/
--
RobertJM
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