Jeff Strickland wrote:

> Yes. I have the drivers for all of the added stuff, and it was
> working okay for a very long time.

Could be a windows update bit you and a driver is
actually hosing up your system. Wouldn't be the
first time.

I'd wade through removing all the drivers and
reinstalling them.

Also check the crash log.
IIRC it's here.
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson

Happy bug hunting. :/

--
DougW

 

"witfal" <nospam@all4.me> wrote in message
news:f9am6e$6in$1@news.albasani.net...
> On 2007-08-07 13:14:12 -0700, "Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@verizon.net> said:
>
>> The (before I started having troubles) was a USB based wireless mouse,
>> powered by a PCI-based USB 2.0 adaptor. I removed that adaptor and
>> reverted to a PS2 mouse. There was no change to the behavior until I
>> removed the wireless adaptor (NetGear), at which point (or some point
>> soon thereafter) the USB card was reinstalled and the machine worked okay
>> until the D-link adaptor was installed. Today, all adaptors are removed,
>> and the problem comes and goes with the wireless adaptor that allows
>> connection to the wireless network at my house.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Kinda tough diagnosing remotely. That's all I can think of right now.
>>>
>>
>> It's all I can think of too, and I'm not remote ...
>
> One other possibility, though remote: Try disabling the wired network
> connection before a lock-up.
> If it still does it, I'd guess your original theory looks better; a dying
> bus on the motherboard, most
> likely a heat-sensitive component.
>
> New MBs are pretty cheap now if you don't want the lastest and greatest.
> Just re-use the rest
> and do a clean re-install of WinBlows.
>

I did a fresh install of WinDoze a few minutes before I went and bought
another machine. I managed to get a successful activation of the key code
right before it crapped the first time after installing the wireless
adaptor.

I don't have a wired network on the machine, only a wireless one. I was
hoping for a power supply problem ahead of a motherboard problem. I'll
likely not fix the motherboard if that is the trouble, but a power supply is
an easy fix, and cheap too ...

I was thinkning of a heat sensitive component too, but I was hoping it lived
inside the power supply ...

 

"witfal" <nospam@all4.me> wrote in message
news:f9am6e$6in$1@news.albasani.net...
> On 2007-08-07 13:14:12 -0700, "Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@verizon.net> said:
>
>> The (before I started having troubles) was a USB based wireless mouse,
>> powered by a PCI-based USB 2.0 adaptor. I removed that adaptor and
>> reverted to a PS2 mouse. There was no change to the behavior until I
>> removed the wireless adaptor (NetGear), at which point (or some point
>> soon thereafter) the USB card was reinstalled and the machine worked okay
>> until the D-link adaptor was installed. Today, all adaptors are removed,
>> and the problem comes and goes with the wireless adaptor that allows
>> connection to the wireless network at my house.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Kinda tough diagnosing remotely. That's all I can think of right now.
>>>
>>
>> It's all I can think of too, and I'm not remote ...
>
> One other possibility, though remote: Try disabling the wired network
> connection before a lock-up.
> If it still does it, I'd guess your original theory looks better; a dying
> bus on the motherboard, most
> likely a heat-sensitive component.
>
> New MBs are pretty cheap now if you don't want the lastest and greatest.
> Just re-use the rest
> and do a clean re-install of WinBlows.
>

I did a fresh install of WinDoze a few minutes before I went and bought
another machine. I managed to get a successful activation of the key code
right before it crapped the first time after installing the wireless
adaptor.

I don't have a wired network on the machine, only a wireless one. I was
hoping for a power supply problem ahead of a motherboard problem. I'll
likely not fix the motherboard if that is the trouble, but a power supply is
an easy fix, and cheap too ...

I was thinkning of a heat sensitive component too, but I was hoping it lived
inside the power supply ...

 

"witfal" <nospam@all4.me> wrote in message
news:f9am6e$6in$1@news.albasani.net...
> On 2007-08-07 13:14:12 -0700, "Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@verizon.net> said:
>
>> The (before I started having troubles) was a USB based wireless mouse,
>> powered by a PCI-based USB 2.0 adaptor. I removed that adaptor and
>> reverted to a PS2 mouse. There was no change to the behavior until I
>> removed the wireless adaptor (NetGear), at which point (or some point
>> soon thereafter) the USB card was reinstalled and the machine worked okay
>> until the D-link adaptor was installed. Today, all adaptors are removed,
>> and the problem comes and goes with the wireless adaptor that allows
>> connection to the wireless network at my house.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Kinda tough diagnosing remotely. That's all I can think of right now.
>>>
>>
>> It's all I can think of too, and I'm not remote ...
>
> One other possibility, though remote: Try disabling the wired network
> connection before a lock-up.
> If it still does it, I'd guess your original theory looks better; a dying
> bus on the motherboard, most
> likely a heat-sensitive component.
>
> New MBs are pretty cheap now if you don't want the lastest and greatest.
> Just re-use the rest
> and do a clean re-install of WinBlows.
>

I did a fresh install of WinDoze a few minutes before I went and bought
another machine. I managed to get a successful activation of the key code
right before it crapped the first time after installing the wireless
adaptor.

I don't have a wired network on the machine, only a wireless one. I was
hoping for a power supply problem ahead of a motherboard problem. I'll
likely not fix the motherboard if that is the trouble, but a power supply is
an easy fix, and cheap too ...

I was thinkning of a heat sensitive component too, but I was hoping it lived
inside the power supply ...

 

"witfal" <nospam@all4.me> wrote in message
news:f9am6e$6in$1@news.albasani.net...
> On 2007-08-07 13:14:12 -0700, "Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@verizon.net> said:
>
>> The (before I started having troubles) was a USB based wireless mouse,
>> powered by a PCI-based USB 2.0 adaptor. I removed that adaptor and
>> reverted to a PS2 mouse. There was no change to the behavior until I
>> removed the wireless adaptor (NetGear), at which point (or some point
>> soon thereafter) the USB card was reinstalled and the machine worked okay
>> until the D-link adaptor was installed. Today, all adaptors are removed,
>> and the problem comes and goes with the wireless adaptor that allows
>> connection to the wireless network at my house.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Kinda tough diagnosing remotely. That's all I can think of right now.
>>>
>>
>> It's all I can think of too, and I'm not remote ...
>
> One other possibility, though remote: Try disabling the wired network
> connection before a lock-up.
> If it still does it, I'd guess your original theory looks better; a dying
> bus on the motherboard, most
> likely a heat-sensitive component.
>
> New MBs are pretty cheap now if you don't want the lastest and greatest.
> Just re-use the rest
> and do a clean re-install of WinBlows.
>

I did a fresh install of WinDoze a few minutes before I went and bought
another machine. I managed to get a successful activation of the key code
right before it crapped the first time after installing the wireless
adaptor.

I don't have a wired network on the machine, only a wireless one. I was
hoping for a power supply problem ahead of a motherboard problem. I'll
likely not fix the motherboard if that is the trouble, but a power supply is
an easy fix, and cheap too ...

I was thinkning of a heat sensitive component too, but I was hoping it lived
inside the power supply ...

 

" dbu.," <nps@alllegal.com> wrote in message
news:nps-5E9355.16062407082007@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
>>
>> Yes. I have the drivers for all of the added stuff, and it was working
>> okay
>> for a very long time.
>>
>> I realize that my problem is sorta like, I pushed the car out of the
>> garage
>> and now it won't start, where pushing it and starting it are normally
>> unrelated activities, but this computer worked okay until I turned it off
>> one day and moved it to another table and started it up again, and now it
>> doesn't run.
>
> You mean the wireless doesn't run, the computer otherwise works fine?
>
> --


Well, yeah. When the old heap is up on blocks, it runs fine. But when I put
the tires on and take the jack stands out, it stalls again (to keep my bad
analogy alive) ...

 

" dbu.," <nps@alllegal.com> wrote in message
news:nps-5E9355.16062407082007@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
>>
>> Yes. I have the drivers for all of the added stuff, and it was working
>> okay
>> for a very long time.
>>
>> I realize that my problem is sorta like, I pushed the car out of the
>> garage
>> and now it won't start, where pushing it and starting it are normally
>> unrelated activities, but this computer worked okay until I turned it off
>> one day and moved it to another table and started it up again, and now it
>> doesn't run.
>
> You mean the wireless doesn't run, the computer otherwise works fine?
>
> --


Well, yeah. When the old heap is up on blocks, it runs fine. But when I put
the tires on and take the jack stands out, it stalls again (to keep my bad
analogy alive) ...

 

" dbu.," <nps@alllegal.com> wrote in message
news:nps-5E9355.16062407082007@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
>>
>> Yes. I have the drivers for all of the added stuff, and it was working
>> okay
>> for a very long time.
>>
>> I realize that my problem is sorta like, I pushed the car out of the
>> garage
>> and now it won't start, where pushing it and starting it are normally
>> unrelated activities, but this computer worked okay until I turned it off
>> one day and moved it to another table and started it up again, and now it
>> doesn't run.
>
> You mean the wireless doesn't run, the computer otherwise works fine?
>
> --


Well, yeah. When the old heap is up on blocks, it runs fine. But when I put
the tires on and take the jack stands out, it stalls again (to keep my bad
analogy alive) ...

 

" dbu.," <nps@alllegal.com> wrote in message
news:nps-5E9355.16062407082007@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
>>
>> Yes. I have the drivers for all of the added stuff, and it was working
>> okay
>> for a very long time.
>>
>> I realize that my problem is sorta like, I pushed the car out of the
>> garage
>> and now it won't start, where pushing it and starting it are normally
>> unrelated activities, but this computer worked okay until I turned it off
>> one day and moved it to another table and started it up again, and now it
>> doesn't run.
>
> You mean the wireless doesn't run, the computer otherwise works fine?
>
> --


Well, yeah. When the old heap is up on blocks, it runs fine. But when I put
the tires on and take the jack stands out, it stalls again (to keep my bad
analogy alive) ...

 

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24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca who's only way to get attention is to make
a fool of its self. With an obsession with perverts and goats, where it
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That really thinks the group's members are so stupid not to know it's
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paragraphs it fits so well!
But, now worth a forwarding to: internet.help@shaw.ca,
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Who said it also likes baby monkeys sucking their -----, like his buddy
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I thought this traitor's attacks were just over personal disagreements,
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This must be the attention you want, otherwise you wouldn't tag ever
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the merrier! :-)
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mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/


"Pink Freud" <psychokiller@terminal-analysis.org> wrote in message
news:tG5ui.41574$rX4.33704@pd7urf2no...
>
> Hey Dork, you've had to give up on nearly everything you've ever tried to
> do.
>
> And if you don't just wussy away from the problem, you spend your time
> trying to find someone to blame it on.
>
> Give up again, Cooyon. You don't belong anywhere, especially Earth.
>
> Pray that your g0d will send you an URL from heaven.....
>



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