Thanks, but I did the reinstall before I saw this, however, I did the system checker over the weekend and it found no bad files.
The reinstall went smoothly, however, as soon as I tried...
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Thanks, but I did the reinstall before I saw this, however, I did the system checker over the weekend and it found no bad files.
The reinstall went smoothly, however, as soon as I tried...
I tend to agree with you on that type of reinstall. Since the system has been up and running for over 72 hours with no resets (avoiding use of explorer.exe) I think that's what I'll do, since it...
The maximum RAM for this mombo is 768MB, so I'm well under that. I'm seriously thinking of doing the reinstall route.
Ok, how do I turn them back on? The main question here is: I'm pretty sure it's explorer.exe or one of it's components because using My Computer (which I hate :)) has produced a crash-free period of...
I agree it is explorer.exe, the reason I say this is that I've used only My Computer for the past 45 hours where I would have used Explorer and there have been no problems :). I'm running an Athlon...
The problem is not a "true reboot". What happens, most of the time while using Windows Explorer, is that the clears to just the wallpaper and then rebuilds itself. Windows never actually resets but...
I'm using two sticks so I could give that a try. The graphics are onboard the motherboard <I'm not a gammer :) >
See my next reply for more info.
Max
THis problem has been getting worse over the last few months. What happens is the XP seems to do a quick "blink", the screen clears to the background and then re-intializes again. The net result is...