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From: (PeteCresswell) on 6 Jan 2008 12:23 Been getting roughly the same set of weirdnesses maybe once every few days over the past two months. Restored my system from a old, known-good backup day before yesterday, and the problem just resurfaced today.... so I'm thinking that Windows XP Pro is off the hook unless it's some artifact of a system update. The symptoms are: ------------------------------------------------------------ - Task bar goes black - Able to open individual drives after clicking MyComputer, but folders within a drive cannot be opened. - Able to bring up TaskMan once, but not a second time - Firefox (already running when the problem surfaced) able to start opening a new link, but never finishes - The system "go-away" buttons (the little "X" in the top right corner of most windows) winks when clicked, but the window never closes. - If left alone, the system doesn't seem to "get over it". Twice I've left it in that state overnite, with no effect. - In the end I have to force a re-boot by powering off/on. ------------------------------------------------------------ If not the MB, I'm thinking maybe one of the two USB cards I have - since the system's normal operation seems to be to hang when some media (like an iPod) are connected to a USB port - until the medium is opened and fully recognized. Does this sound familiar to anybody? -- PeteCresswell
From: Mistoffolees on 6 Jan 2008 13:34 (PeteCresswell) wrote: > Been getting roughly the same set of weirdnesses maybe once every > few days over the past two months. > > Restored my system from a old, known-good backup day before > yesterday, and the problem just resurfaced today.... so I'm > thinking that Windows XP Pro is off the hook unless it's some > artifact of a system update. > > The symptoms are: > ------------------------------------------------------------ > - Task bar goes black > - Able to open individual drives after clicking MyComputer, > but folders within a drive cannot be opened. > - Able to bring up TaskMan once, but not a second time > - Firefox (already running when the problem surfaced) able > to start opening a new link, but never finishes > - The system "go-away" buttons (the little "X" in the top > right corner of most windows) winks when clicked, but the > window never closes. > - If left alone, the system doesn't seem to "get over it". > Twice I've left it in that state overnite, with no effect. > - In the end I have to force a re-boot by powering off/on. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > If not the MB, I'm thinking maybe one of the two USB cards I have > - since the system's normal operation seems to be to hang when > some media (like an iPod) are connected to a USB port - until the > medium is opened and fully recognized. > > Does this sound familiar to anybody? Checked the PSU and all of its connections, including reseating them? Reseat all peripheral cards, RAM, data cables, etc.
From: (PeteCresswell) on 6 Jan 2008 15:05
Per Mistoffolees: > >Checked the PSU and all of its connections, including reseating them? >Reseat all peripheral cards, RAM, data cables, etc. I will do that ASAP. Thanks. -- PeteCresswell |