re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 9:42 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Greg (1 messages posted) Well I see this thread is an old one but I've been working on a machine recently and ran into similar circumstances. The machine in question is a Shuttle-XPC SK-43G model. My problems started after installing 3 upgrades... 1st I upgraded the GPU from a GeForce MX-440 128MB DDR card to a GeForce FX-6200 256DDR2 model, 2nd I added a second 512 MB stick of PC 3200 RAM & 3rd I swapped out the Athlon XP 2000+ CPU for an Athlon XP 2600+ Barton CPU. Needless to say I made sure that the system BIOS & all drivers were upgraded to the latest versions I could find (BIOS, various VIA drivers, Realtek LAN drivers, nVidia drivers from GPU card manufacturer XFX, all MS & DirectX updates.) At first everything seemed to go smoothly... the CPU detected and increased the FSB to 166MHz, found the extra 1/2 gig of RAM & the new GPU. Wonderful, right? Not so fast kemosabe, I find myself now plagued with random system crashes. Tried all the usual stuff, then the unusual, the downright absurd, etc & was 1 step away from wiping off the cobwebs from my old Quija board. I went so far as to install MS debugging tools & finding & installing massive symbol databases to try & uncover what is causing all these crashes. Finally I got an error message I was able to track down & so far, knock on wood, my daily BSOD recovery routine seems to be a thing of the past. So how do you solve this quandry? No need to dial back BIOS settings or swap out RAM, etc. Just 2 simple steps... 1st open My Computer & on each hard disk looks at properties & disable Indexing Service checkbox then go to Start > Run & type msconfing, select the Services tab and make sure that Indexing is stopped... hopefully it'll work for anyone else with this problem and my luck continues but so far no more BSOD's (but keeping fingers & toes tightly crossed!) Written in response to: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Scott Coxon: Monday, June 23, 2003 at 8:15 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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