PBC Web Design wrote:
Hi,
I'm having a ~really scary~ problem. Two days ago my computer started
acting up. It seems to be browser related from what I can tell so
far. What happens is that when I open my browser (so far Firefox and
IE6) my computer goes into a reboot all on it's own no matter what's open
for
<<::SNIP::>>
Sure hate to tell you this, but I ran into a similar problem two months ago
and it turned out to be a hardware failure. I ended up installing a new
motherboard, processor, and memory. By the time I had been through all the
troubleshooting, etc., I had had so many spontaneous reboots that XP was
pretty much hosed, so I ended up taking it down to bare metal and
reinstalling XP, then SP2, all the updates, etc. My problem was not
identical; it didn't happen merely from starting the browser (any browser),
but as soon as I tried to scroll the window, blip! she was gone--spontaneous
reboot. I tried all the usual suspects, turned off hardware acceleration,
used msconfig to minimize startup programs, etc.
Although it was a right pain in the ass doing the system rebuild, I was a
tad fortunate in that my C: drive is used almost exclusively for the OS and
such programs as firewall, antivirus, etc. Everything else, including My
Documents, is on one of my other logical drives. Formatting C: and
reinstalling, therefore, didn't hit my productivity apps. After the
reinstall I just went back and reinstalled all my apps into their existing
folders so that Windows could find them. I must say, I'm almost grateful it
happened, since in the process the upgrade approximately doubled my system
speed, and it is now Gibraltar solid and stable. Would I go through it
again? Nope, not voluntarily. But now that I'm looking back at the upgrade
and rebuild process instead of forward to it, I'm kinda glad I was forced
into an upgrade that was long overdue anyway.
Cheers,
Scott
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