Sounds like it could be a bad hard drive. What is Mandravia? Did you try just using SP2 and not SP3? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Friedman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:22 PM Subject: [Thinkpad] Where to start?? XP problem on a dual boot T43
> Computer T43 2687-D4U, 15" Flexview XP SP 3 with all updates, Mandriva > 2009 > > OK, About two weeks ago, faced with ongoing and unsolvable wireless > problems > in Windows, I reinstalled Windows. Over the course of a week, I got all my > essentials back and life was good. Then, suddenly two days ago, things > froze > while in Windows. I was trying to access a music file at the time in Media > Player. When I re-booted, things froze at the XP splash screen. > > When I put in the rescue disk I can look in events log and get two > different > errors, one which corresponds to the time of the freeze: > > RRU Co create Instance error -2147024894 > > > -- > Stuart Friedman > Montpelier, VT USA > 802.522.6228 > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
