Please check Event Viewer for Warning / Error Report in the System and
Application over the last 2 days and post copies.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Administrative Tools, and
Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information
regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...308427&sd=tech

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you should
double click for further information. You can copy using copy and paste.
Often the link will, however, say there is no further information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click
on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button
resembling two pages. Double click the button and close Event Viewer. Now
start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. This
will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report complete with links
into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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"Skeet13" <Skeet13@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news56AF0EB-33AB-46EB-8C05-22445557CD2E@microsoft.com...
> Some times it causes the whole computer to crash, and reboot. Im not
> really
> concerned about the defragmenting of the files, i just want to know what
> is
> causing this to happen, I suspect it is a driver problem, but windows just
> tells me its an unknown device after the crash.
>
> "Gerry Cornell" wrote:
>
>>
>> The amount of free space is very important when running Disk
>> Defragmenter. A
>> minimum of 15% is required but sometimes 20% is desirable if the drive /
>> partition
>> contains one or more large files. You can run Disk Defragmenter a second
>> and
>> third
>> time if files are still fragmented after the first run. You can put files
>> more prone to
>> fragment in their own partitions.
>>
>> If you use Outlook Express regularly compacting Outlook Express before
>> running
>> Disk Defragmenter is helpful.
>>
>> Disk Defragmenter provides a "Most fragmented files" list. When a
>> fragmented
>> file is
>> larger than the largest pocket of free space available then the files is
>> not
>> fragmented.
>> Running Disk Defragmenter a second or third time does move files around
>> and
>> can
>> reduce / eliminate the contents of the "Most fragmented files" list. The
>> more free
>> space on the drive / partition, the more likely it is that all fragments
>> will be
>> eliminated.
>>
>> Free space cannot be defragmented with the Windows XP Disk Defragmenter.
>> Neither can your pagefile cannot be defragmented because the file is in
>> use
>> whilst
>> Disk Defragmenter is running. You can purchase other Defragmenting
>> Utilities
>> e.g.
>> Perfect Disk, which will defragment your pagefile and free space. Another
>> option is to
>> place your pagefile in it's own partition. A pagefile partition is best
>> located as the first
>> partition on a second hard drive. You should leave a small page file at
>> the
>> original
>> location.
>> http://www.raxco.com/
>>
>> ~~~~~~
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> FCA
>>
>> Stourport, Worcs, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute.
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> "Skeet13" <Skeet13@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:E1303A3C-6B24-453E-A8B1-8985DF745A5A@microsoft.com...
>> > Lately i have been getting alot of fragmented files come up when i use
>> > the
>> > defrag utility. It seems as if I can run the defrag, clean everything
>> > up,
>> > and come back five minutes later and i'll have a ton of fragmented
>> > files
>> > again. I play an online game alot, and after a while the game will
>> > just
>> > crash. Ill get an error from the game and it will say one of its files
>> > have
>> > become corrupt. Ill run defrag and sure enough that file is listed. I
>> > got
>> > the new Soundblaster X-fi in november, so i though it was because of
>> > its
>> > drivers, but i took the card out, along with the drivers, but it still
>> > happens. All the rest of my drivers seem to be up to date. It also
>> > doesnt
>> > matter if my cable modem is on or not. I just reformated my computer
>> > the
>> > other day hoping it would take care of it, but it didnt help at all. I
>> > have
>> > a pentium 4 3g.. ATI radeon 9800 XT... 1gb of ram.. Please help me!
>> > Any
>> > help would be greatly appreciated...
>>
>>
>>