Keeps crashing?...solution is simple...get your important info off of it..email address web favorites...and projects working on...and format....You have a marvelous big paper weight otherwise which only pisses you off....time it takes to troubleshoot something like that you can it totally reloaded in a few hrs....Re-load one program at a time and see if it hapens again at some point..One thing too Is Win XP Service Pak 2...If you reload Win XP by chance try loading up the older games before you up date to this service pak and see if they play....Service Pak 2 has caused alot of older games not to work now....
Programs that are known to experience a loss of functionality when they run on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer:
Age of Empires II: Age of Kings
Chess Advantage III: Lego Chess
Combat Flight Simulator 3
Command & Conquer: Generals
Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Conflict: Desert Storm
Dead Man's Hand
Earth & Beyond
Elite Forces Vietnam: Special Assignment 2
Freedom Force
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Medieval Total War
Midnight Outlaw: Illegal Street Drag
Moto Racer
NASCAR Racing 2003
NBA Live 2000
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
Roller Coaster Factory
Scrabble
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
SimCity 4
Star Trek: Starfleet Command III
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Starcraft
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
Tribes 2
Unreal II
Unreal Tournament 2003
Unreal Tournament Game of the Year Edition
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Collector's Edition
There are oodles of other software/games too...my son has Win XP pak 1 and he can play the Old Red Alert games...I cannot with pak 2....and since his MB is older it crashed windows when I tried to install Pak 2....weird...hit a major crossroad with pak 2.
Goes with out saying if you do format you absolutly have to have Virus/Spyware/Firewall protection....and run the scans frequently....defrag...and stay away from unknown porn sites.
