12-14-2003, 08:56 PM
Number one...check your log files in the Event Viewer. Right click My Computer and select Manage.
Then expand the Event Viewer section. Click the System link and look on the right frame for messages and times.
Look for Yellow or red alerts. Log files are EVERYTHING for diagnostics. As good as the plug-and-pray is in XP, you
could have an IRQ conflict and during certain access times, one hardware could be stepping on another's IRQ assignment,
in effect, rendering them useless and causing problems. If it was me and this kept on occuring, I'd just wipe the hard drive
and reinstall XP again.
You also have to think, what have I done different to my system that this just started up. Did I do an update, install a new driver,
new mouse, new USB device?? Overheating is one thing that can get worse over time and degrade but untouched PC's will
rarely just break unless you give them a reason to. Hard drives asside on that though. They are constantly spinning and will wear out
If you can get it up and going, copy paste your Event logs here...
PS....have you ran Windows update in awhile?
Then expand the Event Viewer section. Click the System link and look on the right frame for messages and times.
Look for Yellow or red alerts. Log files are EVERYTHING for diagnostics. As good as the plug-and-pray is in XP, you
could have an IRQ conflict and during certain access times, one hardware could be stepping on another's IRQ assignment,
in effect, rendering them useless and causing problems. If it was me and this kept on occuring, I'd just wipe the hard drive
and reinstall XP again.
You also have to think, what have I done different to my system that this just started up. Did I do an update, install a new driver,
new mouse, new USB device?? Overheating is one thing that can get worse over time and degrade but untouched PC's will
rarely just break unless you give them a reason to. Hard drives asside on that though. They are constantly spinning and will wear out
If you can get it up and going, copy paste your Event logs here...
PS....have you ran Windows update in awhile?