XP randomly restarts on me
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Date: 04/04/04
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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:07:44 -0700
I had a similar problem. Turns out that I the Blaster
virus. I got rid of the virus and everything started
working OK.
Bruce
>-----Original Message-----
>I'm experiencing these unexplained crashes in XP, not the
>kind of crash where you get to close the frozen program
>and keep working...but the kind of crash in which I'm
>minding my own business and the machine just randomly
>restarts. It's only happened a handful of times, but so
>far the trend seems to be that it occurs while opening a
>file (e.g. Word doc) or copying/moving files between my
HD
>and external backup drive.
>
>Then I get the blue screen during bootup, asking me to
>check the file system on my C drive for errors. For
>instance, when it happened earlier today, I got this
>prompt:
>
>For the file "C:/.../Microsoft Office/Recent/<<Word file
I
>was using when it crashed>>.LNK", first allocation unit
is
>not valid--the entry will be truncated. I suppose this
>could just be an aftereffect of the crash...
>
>I just formatted my hard drive two days ago, so it's not
>like there should be a ton of baggage in the file system
>which would make the machine unstable (or should it?).
>
>Any insight?
>Thanks!
>Paul
>.
>
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