Graueradler
Pattern Altitude
My computer has been very stable for a long time, ever since I fdisked the hard drive, reloaded Windows XP and started all over. Initially, I had installed XP as an upgrade from 98 and it was quite unstable. It is a home built that is several years old with an ASUS motherboard and a 450 mHz AMD CPU (it was fast once upon a time). In the day after Thanksgiving sales, I found a deal I couldn't refuse and bought a 200 GB Maxtor HD for $30. Last week, I installed it. The first problem I encountered was that I didn't have a cable long enough to reach from the mother board to where it had to be installed in a large tower. No problem, I had a spare small case so I just moved the entire computer to a new case (including the new HD). It now has three hard drives and a CD-ROM reader/burner. I could only use 137 GB of the new drive due to system limitations but that will last me a long time. Since then, the computer has been generally OK but programs (Outlook Express/Firefox, etc) keep crashing now and then and closing themselves. Firefox has shut down twice tonight but comes back up without re-booting. I normally shut down by "Hibernating" but when I have a program problem, I shutdown completely and restart and the problem seems to be gone until maybe it burps again a day or so later.
I am not a computer guru. I am an engineer than can read a product manual, figure out where to connect wires and how to set jumpers and have taken a few programming classes and a computer design class (Motorola Z something or other chip) many years ago.
Any suggestions? (other than get a new modern computer)
I am not a computer guru. I am an engineer than can read a product manual, figure out where to connect wires and how to set jumpers and have taken a few programming classes and a computer design class (Motorola Z something or other chip) many years ago.
Any suggestions? (other than get a new modern computer)
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