Re: Windows XP Home Ed Crash

This wasn't a "brown out", but a total power failure. There was no storm or
anything, so no lightening; just a momentary power failure of about 30 sec.

I don't know what you mean by "UPS". What's UPS? UPS monitor?

Doing a recovery definitely is a hassle, especially downloading all those MS
updates again, which took several days (at least) to complete using automatic
updates.

Her system is up and running again today, and we are ready to (once again)
download the updates and reinstall other software. But hey, I'm learning a
lot through all this!! LOL
--
Bill


"R. McCarty" wrote:

Momentary "Brown Outs" are a threat to PCs. Most folks understand
the need for surge protection but not for UPS. Every summer I replace
several Wireless routers as these are particularly sensitive to drop outs.

Are you sure the UPS monitor is installed and connected (USB) to the
PC so it can monitor the line voltage ?

One suggestion is to get a Imaging program, such as Acronis True
Image. For ~$35 you can protect both the System state and user data.
Doing Repair installs and Recoveries can get to be a hassle after you've
done it a few times.

"Bill O" <BillO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I recently had to do a Windows XP recovery on my daughters computer, as it
had totally crashed due to a virus enfection; no virus protection had been
installed at that time :(

After several tries, I got it up and runnning (humming, actually) and she
downloaded all the updates including SP2. Virus protection installed and
everything was running smoothly for several weeks. She said it was like a
new
machine.

Suddenly yesterday, without warning, she turned it on and could not get
Windows to start. It looked like it was starting normally, but then after
long minutes of nothing happening (Windows XP screen that you first see
when
starting), the screen goes black. Then it tried to restart.

We had a momentary power failure (about 30 sec) the prior day; but she is
on
battery back up (??). She had turned the computer off after that, and it
was
on startup the next day that this problem occured.

I'm in the process of doing another Recovery, as there seemed to be no
other
option (first couple of times, could not get the control panel features to
open so I'm doing it again).

Any clues here what might have caused this? The machine had been running
very well.
--
Bill



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