RE: SP2 hangs, crashes, locks up randomly

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From: Aldo (Aldo_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:46:01 -0800

"Wayne" wrote:

> What once was a rock solid OS that never got turned off
> is now too fragile to use. It occasionally locks up with
> no error messages, and the only recovery is a reboot,
> which means any work in progress is lost. I'm frustrated
> by the random nature of the problem and ask for help in
> doing problem determination.
>
> Most other posts about system hangs seem to be during the
> boot process or at least provide an error message of some
> sort.
>
> CONFIG: IBM ThinkPad A21m with latest BIOS, Norton
> SystemWorks 6.01 with updated virus definitions and
> recent scan.
>

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