I experience random crashing, but it does not blue-screen or reboot, it simply stops dead. And this will often happen even when I'm doing nothing, i.e. when the machine is left idle (overnight). It's totally unpredictable - sometimes it stays up for hours and other times it crashes within seconds. It can even crash before I have clicked on my name to start up XP. I do have an NTFS and a FAT32 drive - that was one of your reasons. Is that the most likely cause? I've had this problem for nearly a year now, and I took it to the shop where they sold me the drive and XP, but they couldn't be sure of the cause, and thought there might be disk-corruption on my big drive. I want to make sure before any drastic action is taken.

Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Ricer46: Thursday, February 27, 2003 at 2:57 pm) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (sundeep: Sunday, June 15, 2003 at 3:02 pm) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Eckhardt: Monday, November 10, 2003 at 9:22 pm) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Betsy Walker: Friday, August 19, 2005 at 10:56 am)

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