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Greetings guru's - I've tried to solve this myself...
I've a 2001 Gateway running a Pentium 4 with a Riva TNT2 64 graphics card,
Linksys wireless netcard, new sony dvd/cd & cd & fireball harddrive. And Win
xp (service pack 2 upgraded).
Since Win XP (+ service pack and annoying CA EZ Trust virus software; anyone
know how to keep the ez firewall software from loading at startup?), my
computer will crash intermittently - with no seeming pattern. No blue
screen, no warning, just 'bang'; I kill the powercord, turn it back on and
it's like nothing happened to the unit. In fact - there's often no event of
the crash in the error reporting queue!
Now - sometimes crash occurs and startup prompts for a diskcheck; never a
problem there. This phenomena occurs most frequently when I'm (trying)
running a backup - or when I do an extended virus search (backup routine I
can't complete without a crash; virus check has gone thru completely a number
of times).
I've run Spybot, EZ Trust Virus Software, Windows Virus check - nothing bad
is found. It's as though, over a given time, the unit just shuts down (tho'
this can be at :30 or 3 hrs later!) - however it most assuredly occurs about
:10 into a :40 backup.
TIA for any insight...
Greetings guru's - I've tried to solve this myself...
I've a 2001 Gateway running a Pentium 4 with a Riva TNT2 64 graphics card,
Linksys wireless netcard, new sony dvd/cd & cd & fireball harddrive. And Win
xp (service pack 2 upgraded).
Since Win XP (+ service pack and annoying CA EZ Trust virus software; anyone
know how to keep the ez firewall software from loading at startup?), my
computer will crash intermittently - with no seeming pattern. No blue
screen, no warning, just 'bang'; I kill the powercord, turn it back on and
it's like nothing happened to the unit. In fact - there's often no event of
the crash in the error reporting queue!
Now - sometimes crash occurs and startup prompts for a diskcheck; never a
problem there. This phenomena occurs most frequently when I'm (trying)
running a backup - or when I do an extended virus search (backup routine I
can't complete without a crash; virus check has gone thru completely a number
of times).
I've run Spybot, EZ Trust Virus Software, Windows Virus check - nothing bad
is found. It's as though, over a given time, the unit just shuts down (tho'
this can be at :30 or 3 hrs later!) - however it most assuredly occurs about
:10 into a :40 backup.
TIA for any insight...