Re: Hanging or rebooting

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: SteveW (SteveW_at_=No=Spam.org)
Date: 07/19/04


Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:17:03 +0100


"Pegasus" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
news:eCSlatTbEHA.1732@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> If the program gives the disk a clean bill of health then I would
> reload Windows 2000 from scratch. To protect yourself against
> similar disasters in future, create a disk image with a suitable
> program such as Acronis TrueImage.
Unfortunately I can't get it to run a complete test before it reboots!
I've tried disconnecting various bits of hardware to eliminate those as a
factor, but no joy yet.

Steve



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