Well, here's something for starters - at boot up I got a 'serious error'
message: it said that an unknown device driver had failed, and gave the
following error signature:

BCCode:4e BCP1:0000008F BCP2: 0000DC7E BCP3:0000C88E BCP4:
00000000 OSVER:5_1_2600 SP:2_0 Product:768_1

It also produced a report to send to MS; I saved the report files if they
are of any use to you. I did set up the paramaters that were suggested, and
will send any notes from the crash bluescreen. Thanks for the help, and
Happy Holidays!

Ted Curtin

"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
news:eixKqvaBGHA.3840@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Ted Curtin wrote:
>
>> A few months after installing xp, my computer will suddenly reboot in
>> the middle of whatever I may happening to be doing. This happens
>> about once a day. Can anyone help?
>>
>> My system is fairly new: Athlon xp 2400, 256 MB, Soyo MB
>
>
> You are presumably blue-screening, and you are set to reboot whenever that
> happens. Right-click My Computer, and choose Properties. On the Advanced
> tab, click Settings under Startup and Recovery. Under System failure,
> uncheck the box "Automatically restart.
>
> Now when the problem occurs again, instead of restarting, you will get the
> blue screen with diagnostic information. Post back with those details for
> more help.
>
> Also note that, fairly new system or not, random rebooting is often a
> hardware problem, not a software one.
>
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