re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Friday, October 4, 2002 at 4:18 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bob B
(2307 messages posted)
It might be your power options - if you have it set up to turn off the hard drive
after a period of time, it is not unusual for the machine to freeze when you come
back and try to get it to come out of screen saver mode. I tell it to never turn
off anything and have not had a repeat of the problem in years...
On Thursday, October 3, 2002 at 9:32 pm, Jodi wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I am running XP home edition on a Gateway system w/ 1.5 GHz P4, 128 RAM, less than
>a year old, came with XP installed. In the past month, sometimes when I leave my
>computer on for several hours without use, it is frozen when I return - not regularly,
>though. sometimes 3 times in a day, then good for a week or more. I have found
that
>after a few minutes, the screensaver come back on, and sometimes the taskbar reallears
>as well, but nothing else. The only option for restarting is the reset button.
>I have tried to uninstall all software I have added in the past month with no luck
>and also tried reinstalling XP. I also have virus software (Norton Corporate Edition)
>which I update and run weekly, so the problem being virus related is slim. Also,
>I read about others thinking that they are overheating - I doubt that as well,
since
>this seems to be a recent issue, and I had no problems in the hottest months of
the
>summer.
>
>Any other ideas?
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