On Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 9:24 pm, Henry wrote:
>Anyway the 
>odd part is that my computer works almost 100% of the time if it has been off for 
>at least 3 hours before I turn it back on and less than 5% of the time if I am turning 
>it back on within 3 or so hours of the time it was last turned off.  Given my knowledge 
>of computers this makes absolutely no sense at all.

This sounds like a power management problem, doesn't it?  I would suggest turning 
off all forms of automatic power management until you can track down the problem. 
 That includes the BIOS and XP.

I had a problem with my machine freezing while the screen was turned off (under APM) 
and I had blamed it on the video driver.  But, after turning off the APM features, 
it transpired that the modem card was freezing every time I received a phone call!

So, my advice is, be suspicious all the drivers.  Install the latest drivers from 
the manufacturers' web sites.  

Good luck!

Uday Reddy

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