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RB,
Oh dear. When that happens the first thing I look for is a hardware
problem. It doesn't recover after a few minutes I take it.
Likely things are damn near anything. Motherboard, bad memory,
power supply or CPU chip. Could be a heat problem but I doubt it.
Some say it could be a hard drive but I have only seen hard drives
either die or freeze the computer each time you turn it on.
If you have two RAM chips you can pull one then run for a while to see
if it is the problem. If it still does it then swap them. Check the
CPU and see if the fan is working ok. You can pop it off and clean
the fan and get some paste at Radio Shack to put back on to pull the
heat from the small area they touch. If it comes to testing you need
a lot of expensive equipment or software so or just the ability to
feel what is wrong. Last choice has always worked for me but it helps
to have a few spare parts to swap out to check it out.
Now it could be software. TS2ki will freeze a machine for a few
seconds, but it only happened to me when I was running lots of stuff
and DTN sat. and it was using all the processing power to compute
something behind the scenes. Can you bring up the task manager when it
happens? What about your OS, is it in good shape? What program do
you use for email? Unfortunately the list goes on forever.
Try a google search for XP Home freezes. This will give you a zillion
things to check. Sorry I couldn't be more help. A fast fix is the
computer shop.
Best regards,
Jimmy Snowden
mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxx
Friday, February 27, 2004, 8:56:09 PM, you wrote:
R> Jimmy or anyone else,
R> Was wondering if you have any idea what may be causing my little computer
R> problem.
R> Once in a while my computer will freeze. Can't move the mouse or do
R> anything. I can cut it off and then back on and it works fine. It doesn't
R> do it everyday, maybe one day a week or so and it also seems that when it
R> does do it, it will do it again at least once, maybe twice more that same
R> day?
R> When it does happen, it usually happens while I am on the net and reading
R> and writing emails.
R> I have XP home, 1800 amd 512 ram.
R> Any ideas on what may be causing it or the best way to find out why it
R> happens?
R> Thanks,
R> ----- Original Message -----
R> From: "Jimmy Snowden" <jhsnowden@xxxxxxx>
R> To: "mcm1" <mcm1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <Omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
R> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 6:07 AM
R> Subject: Re: Windows XP
>> Yes perfectly on 32 KB computers. Don't know about 64s. Helps to
>> tweak XP as it has some bloated trash on it that is not needed. I
>> would say it works better on XP than any other OS, but only better
>> than Windows 2000 because XP has system recovery to keep XP running
>> well after a crash and crashes are very rare and hard to produce.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jimmy Snowden
>> mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> Thursday, February 26, 2004, 6:17:57 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> m> Will TS 2000i run ok on windows XP pro.
>>
>> m> MCMTRADER
>>
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>>
>> Outgoing mail scanned by Norton
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