I have a question about Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000:

I have tried all of the possible causes listed but without any luck. Also, when using Internet Explorer 6 with all the updates installed, I have had the system turn off completely when I have pressed the red cross alongside the minimum, maximise button on the top right hand corner. Any thoughts on this or what else might be the cause of my shutting down problem. many thanks

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Red cross?? are you talking about the 'x' to close a window? you stated in your subject 'fatal crashes', but are you getting a 'blue screen of death'? or is your computer randomly rebooting? or both? Also are you running Windows XP or Windows 2000? please post your detailed system specs, including general age of the machine. Also include as much information about the crashes\reboots such as apps running etc. or if they are purely random. What exactly have you tried? apparenlty you had another thread on this, if so direct me to it so as not to be redundant. All I can tell you now (not crap) is that it could be hardware or software. Typical hardware crashes might include bad RAM, CPU overheating, CPU bad, shorts on mainboard, bad power supply, bad house power supply, failing UPS, among many other things. Typical software crashes might include virii, trojan or other malicious software among many other things. grr, gotta go my updates are installed and I must reboot.


On Friday, February 20, 2004 at 4:52 pm, kentuckylodge wrote:
>I have a question about Top
>reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000:

>I have tried all of the possible causes listed but without any luck. Also, when
>using Internet Explorer 6 with all the updates installed, I have had the system turn
>off completely when I have pressed the red cross alongside the minimum, maximise
>button on the top right hand corner. Any thoughts on this or what else might be
>the cause of my shutting down problem.
>
>many thanks
>

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Thanks for replying. Yes. I was referring to the red cross to close down the browser. Unfortunately this is not always the case. It happens without notice and it could be just as I am typing this message. Sometimes with no message, sometimes with a blue screen. One I have had recently was: IdeChnDr.sys Adddress F84a62D7 Base at F849D000 date stamp 3cb4d2c0 Another was page fault in non paged area. I have a new system running: Pentium 4 2.4 motherboard is Asus P4G8X deluxe. 512mb ram, in the processing of doubling. Heat: 38 degrees in the aussie hot summer. have a fan near the tower letting in extra cool air. Have updated the bios from asus. Have checked the system using adaware spybot pest patrol antivirus. Have read about walk about phones running on 2.4 the same as the motherboard so have relocated that. I am running windows xp home edition with all updates supplied by microsoft installed. Happens whether or not applications are running. House supply is good, 3 phase. tower fan is 400w. Hope this helps.


On Friday, February 20, 2004 at 4:52 pm, kentuckylodge wrote:
>I have a question about Top
>reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000:

>I have tried all of the possible causes listed but without any luck. Also, when
>using Internet Explorer 6 with all the updates installed, I have had the system turn
>off completely when I have pressed the red cross alongside the minimum, maximise
>button on the top right hand corner. Any thoughts on this or what else might be
>the cause of my shutting down problem.
>
>many thanks
> Thanks for replying. Yes. I was referring to the red cross to close down the browser. Unfortunately this is not always the case. It happens without notice and it could be just as I am typing this message. Sometimes with no message, sometimes with a blue screen. One I have had recently was: IdeChnDr.sys Adddress F84a62D7 Base at F849D000 date stamp 3cb4d2c0 Another was page fault in non paged area. I have a new system running: Pentium 4 2.4 motherboard is Asus P4G8X deluxe. 512mb ram, in the processing of doubling. Heat: 38 degrees in the aussie hot summer. have a fan near the tower letting in extra cool air. Have updated the bios from asus. Have checked the system using adaware spybot pest patrol antivirus. Have read about walk about phones running on 2.4 the same as the motherboard so have relocated that. I am running windows xp home edition with all updates supplied by microsoft installed. Happens whether or not applications are running. House supply is good, 3 phase. tower fan is 400w. Hope this helps.

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Just letting you know I upgraded my ram from 512 to 1024mb and then found I had to uninstall the "Intel Application Accelerator". Since then, no more troubles. Everythings fine. Thank goodness. On Friday, February 20, 2004 at 4:52 pm, kentuckylodge wrote:
>I have a question about Top
>reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000:

>I have tried all of the possible causes listed but without any luck. Also, when
>using Internet Explorer 6 with all the updates installed, I have had the system turn
>off completely when I have pressed the red cross alongside the minimum, maximise
>button on the top right hand corner. Any thoughts on this or what else might be
>the cause of my shutting down problem.
>
>many thanks
>

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This could also have been a bad sector on your hard drive. 

See http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread1217.html

Thanks,

Marco






On Friday, February 27, 2004 at 1:04 pm, kentuckylodge wrote:

>Just letting you know I upgraded my ram from 512 to 1024mb and then found I had 
to 

>uninstall the "Intel Application Accelerator". 

>

>Since then, no more troubles.  Everythings fine.  Thank goodness.

>

>

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>  On Friday, February 20, 2004 at 4:52 pm, kentuckylodge wrote:

>>I have a question about Top 


>>reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000:


>>I have tried all of the possible causes listed but without any luck.  Also, when 


>>using Internet Explorer 6 with all the updates installed, I have had the system 

>turn 

>>off completely when I have pressed the red cross alongside the minimum, maximise 


>>button on the top right hand corner.  Any thoughts on this or what else might be 


>>the cause of my shutting down problem.

>>

>>many thanks

>>
 

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