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re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Monday, October 13, 2003 at 5:53 am Posted by Drew Bisson (1 messages posted) My computer restarts immediately whenever I try to write to my 160 GB Western Digital Hard Drive. I have updated my bios to recognize the whole drive and I've turned on the Large Hard disk enable in winXP. I did this when I first installed in and then formatted the drive. I now have 117,505,269,760 (109 GB) used. I can create a new directory but I cannot write any files to that drive any more. The computer will completely reboot instantly. -Drew On Sunday, July 6, 2003 at 11:08 am, Jimmy wrote: >I have a question about Top >reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000: > >I have a problem with a lot of random crashes. >The only situation where I can duplicate this crash is when I try to change the size >of the virtual memory windows is using. I changed the default 1.5 times physical >memory to 2 times my physical memory, hit set, and then the computer automatically >restarts. That is the only time I've been able to replicate this crash, every other >time it occurs randomly. >I do not think it is an overheating or power supply problem, because ASUS PC probe >does not show any dips or spikes in power supply, temperature, or fan speed. > >I'm running >Windows XP Pro, with service pack 1a installed >AMD Athlon 2700 processor >ASUS Motherboard >512mb ram >Western Digital 160 gig HD >ATI Radeon 9700 Video Card > >any ideas? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' Thursday, November 27, 2003 at 5:37 pm Posted by chuangzu (1 messages posted) This computer was running fine but my other computer was having random crashes, now i have installed my radeon in this computer and the problem has shifted here. My guess is that your radeon is the source of your crashes, dodgy ati drivers reign supreme as ever. On Monday, October 13, 2003 at 5:53 am, Drew Bisson wrote: >My computer restarts immediately whenever I try to write to my 160 GB Western Digital >Hard Drive. I have updated my bios to recognize the whole drive and I've turned >on the Large Hard disk enable in winXP. I did this when I first installed in and >then formatted the drive. I now have 117,505,269,760 (109 GB) used. I can create >a new directory but I cannot write any files to that drive any more. The computer >will completely reboot instantly. > >-Drew > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum