cupra wrote:

XP, 2000 etc....?

(XP scandisk can be accessed by right clicking on the disk drive icon when
you've gone into 'my computer' - select properties then tools and finally
error checking)

Blue screen can be caused by driver problems - have you installed new
hardware recently?



XP ~ thanks for that, I try to avoid doing such things until it becomes
necessary, but of course when the time comes around I've forgotten what
I did.

I know the more times it crashes the more likely it is to do more damage
to either the OS or the hardware. I doubt it's overheating of the CPU as
I have a 120mm Heatsink on the Athlon 3400 which looking at 'Motherboard
Monitor' rarely gets hotter than 50°c, atm is 45°c

I ran Scandisk (Check disk) for my 'C' drive, as this is the main one
with the operating system on, it didn't appear to throw up any errors,
unless it corrected them in the background, it often does a quick Scan
when it reboots after a crash and does find error and currupt files
everytime it runs. I'll see how it goes for now.

I don't think I've installed anything apart from Firefox 1.0.7 upgrade,
which I find quite often crashes. I sometimes get the blue screen/reboot
when I try to attach a file or grab something from my 'slave' disk. I
read about the blue screen/driver issue, the next step if it happens
again is to put the XP disk in and do a install/repair as it maybe
possible some files have got corrupted. It was a thought that there
maybe some bad clusters whre the swap files are which prompted me to run
a scan disk.

Again thanks for your help
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Keith (Southend)

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