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Old 02-06-2007, 04:20 PM
Bill Huang
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Re: XP keeps crashing!

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:22:06 GMT, "Sheila" <sbenware@attbi.com> wrote:

>My computer's been crashing for the last couple of weeks. No new sw
>installed during this time. The other day, the power supply died and I got
>a new one of those. It crashes less now, but still crashes at least once
>per "session."
>
>Besides sw issues, could there be a hardware issue causing this? I'm
>preparing to buy a new cpu and/or motherboard. It would be a good excuse to
>upgrade. The computer even locks up during the Windows login screen.
>
>Thanks for any advise,
>Sheila (I can't believe the computer hasn't crashed yet...)



Try Start/Run msconfig and go to the startup tab. Disable everything
and see if you can reproduce the problem. If not - feel good, then
start adding things back one at a time until the problem shows up.

Good Luck.

Bill


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