Sandy
December 13th 03, 12:51 AM
My computer would boot & run as long as I was using it.
But then if I let it set & didn't use it, it would freeze
up. Someone told me to "uninstall" XP Hot Fix Q317277.
I did, so far (keeping my fingers crossed)it's working.
Hope this helps. We'll all find out soon enough.
>-----Original Message-----
>For the past several weeks, my system has been crashing
>and restarting every several hours (irregularly. Crashes
>seem unrelated to anything application-wise -- it does
>the same thing whether I am working on it or not.
>
>Seems like it should be a virus or worm, but three
>different scanners -- including a boot-level scan --
have
>found it clean.
>
>The only event log "crash message" is
>
>Microsoft (R) Windows (R) 5.01. 2600 Service Pack 1
>Uniprocessor Free.
>
>For more information, see Help and Support Center at
>http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>
>which is the last event before the crash...needless to
>say there is no info on this problem at the help link.
>
>Restarts are usually normally, occasionally XP wants to
>check a couple of the hard drives but they always come
>back error free.
>
>Restoring to dates before the crashes started has not
>helped, restoring "way back" might, of course, help at
>the price of knocking out dozens of programs and drivers
>that were working fine at one time.
>
>This thing is driving me nuts. Any ideas? Thanks.
>
>Oh, yes, we have an Athlon XP 2200, 1.5 GB DDR RAM, ASUS
>A7N8x2.0 Delux MB, 3/09/03 Phoenix BIOS Release, ATi
Rage
>Pro Video, two ATA ultra 133 drives, one SATA drive, a
>Plextor DVD .....
>..
>
>
>.
>
But then if I let it set & didn't use it, it would freeze
up. Someone told me to "uninstall" XP Hot Fix Q317277.
I did, so far (keeping my fingers crossed)it's working.
Hope this helps. We'll all find out soon enough.
>-----Original Message-----
>For the past several weeks, my system has been crashing
>and restarting every several hours (irregularly. Crashes
>seem unrelated to anything application-wise -- it does
>the same thing whether I am working on it or not.
>
>Seems like it should be a virus or worm, but three
>different scanners -- including a boot-level scan --
have
>found it clean.
>
>The only event log "crash message" is
>
>Microsoft (R) Windows (R) 5.01. 2600 Service Pack 1
>Uniprocessor Free.
>
>For more information, see Help and Support Center at
>http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>
>which is the last event before the crash...needless to
>say there is no info on this problem at the help link.
>
>Restarts are usually normally, occasionally XP wants to
>check a couple of the hard drives but they always come
>back error free.
>
>Restoring to dates before the crashes started has not
>helped, restoring "way back" might, of course, help at
>the price of knocking out dozens of programs and drivers
>that were working fine at one time.
>
>This thing is driving me nuts. Any ideas? Thanks.
>
>Oh, yes, we have an Athlon XP 2200, 1.5 GB DDR RAM, ASUS
>A7N8x2.0 Delux MB, 3/09/03 Phoenix BIOS Release, ATi
Rage
>Pro Video, two ATA ultra 133 drives, one SATA drive, a
>Plextor DVD .....
>..
>
>
>.
>