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Computer acting funny after crash
Running a 2.4 gig Core2 Duo system, XP Pro, 2 gigs ram..
Had an issue where I got a BSOD a couple of times in a row in a short period, just kind of out of nowhere. One time was playing a YouTube video, once while doing something with an audio recording app. On a hunch I pulled and reseated the RAM sticks, so far haven't seen a revisit of the problem. Some of observations about the crash - it borked the active desktop - got a white background and a blue triangle with a "Restore Active Desktop?" radio button. I've seen this before after crashes, but this time clicking it didn't seem to have any effect. It goes to my normal desktop now after a few reboots, but I notice that when booting, the system takes a lot longer and also hangs for a moment at this point where the background desktop image disappears for a bit, there's a blue background, the desktop icons are in incomplete form. Don't recall that it did this before. When it finally does go back to a background image with icons, it takes longer to boot and be ready for action. In fact everything is sluggish. Apps are taking longer to load, takes forever for Firefox to come up. The task manager showing levels of CPU use 15 - 50% - on a Core2 Duo system - where I get the sense it shouldn't be laboring that hard, not much going on. The machine just "feels" different in its behavior than pre crashes. Seems to remain this way after several reboots. Ran a Virus Scan with freshly updated Bitdefender, found one cookie it got rid of, nothing sinister. Any suggestions as to what might be going on? |
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Computer acting funny after crash
On 7/22/2010 6:08 AM, brassplyer wrote:
Running a 2.4 gig Core2 Duo system, XP Pro, 2 gigs ram.. Had an issue where I got a BSOD a couple of times in a row in a short period, just kind of out of nowhere. One time was playing a YouTube video, once while doing something with an audio recording app. On a hunch I pulled and reseated the RAM sticks, so far haven't seen a revisit of the problem. Some of observations about the crash - it borked the active desktop - got a white background and a blue triangle with a "Restore Active Desktop?" radio button. I've seen this before after crashes, but this time clicking it didn't seem to have any effect. It goes to my normal desktop now after a few reboots, but I notice that when booting, the system takes a lot longer and also hangs for a moment at this point where the background desktop image disappears for a bit, there's a blue background, the desktop icons are in incomplete form. Don't recall that it did this before. When it finally does go back to a background image with icons, it takes longer to boot and be ready for action. In fact everything is sluggish. Apps are taking longer to load, takes forever for Firefox to come up. The task manager showing levels of CPU use 15 - 50% - on a Core2 Duo system - where I get the sense it shouldn't be laboring that hard, not much going on. The machine just "feels" different in its behavior than pre crashes. Seems to remain this way after several reboots. Ran a Virus Scan with freshly updated Bitdefender, found one cookie it got rid of, nothing sinister. Any suggestions as to what might be going on? It's hard to say. It certainly sounds like you have a failing piece of hardware. Could be the RAM, Video Card, Power Supply, or the MB itself. But then it could be an OS corruption. You need more clues. Open Start Administrative Tools Event Viewer. Look at the System section. Check all the Critical Events and note the names and error codes. The information given on the Blue Screen on a system crash would also be helpful. |
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Computer acting funny after crash
When is the last time you checked the registry? |
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Computer acting funny after crash
On Jul 22, 11:08*am, brassplyer wrote:
Running a 2.4 gig Core2 Duo system, XP Pro, 2 gigs ram.. Had an issue where I got a BSOD a couple of times in a row in a short period, just kind of out of nowhere. One time was playing a YouTube video, once while doing something with an audio recording app. On a hunch I pulled and reseated the RAM sticks, so far haven't seen a revisit of the problem. Some of observations about the crash - it borked the active desktop - got a white background and a blue triangle with a "Restore Active Desktop?" radio button. I've seen this before after crashes, but this time clicking it didn't seem to have any effect. It goes to my normal desktop now after a few reboots, but I notice that when booting, the system takes a lot longer and also hangs for a moment at this point where the background desktop image disappears for a bit, there's a blue background, the desktop icons are in incomplete form. Don't recall that it did this before. When it finally does go back to a background image with icons, it takes longer to boot and be ready for action. In fact everything is sluggish. Apps are taking longer to load, takes forever for Firefox to come up. The task manager showing levels of CPU use 15 - 50% - on a Core2 Duo system - where I get the sense it shouldn't be laboring that hard, not much going on. The machine just "feels" different in its behavior than pre crashes. Seems to remain this way after several reboots. Ran a Virus Scan with freshly updated Bitdefender, found one cookie it got rid of, nothing sinister. Any suggestions as to what might be going on? sfc /scannow ??????? |
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