new computer keeps crashing.....

[Testosterone boy]

did it three times today.

Twice while grabbing songs from CDs with windows media player

Once while making a slide show with 522 4mb images. That one overtaxed the memory which is only 512mb. It crashed while importing songs from a CD...it saves them in an OGG format.

Ideas???

It was a store return..on sale...so I bought a 3 year warrantee.

 

[Testosterone boy]

Don't know whether to return it or buy more memory for it.............

 

[mistahsaleen]

QUIT LOOKING AT porn and that shud resolve the problem

 

[Testosterone boy]

First time I ever used it though I bought it almost 6 months ago.

Never seen this happen before with other computers I have/had.

 

[drrman]

hey bro, go to start, then run and type msconfig, then go to the startup tab and see what all is being partially loaded at startup...you can disable ,most all of that except maybe your virus protection as it just wastes system memory.. that may free up enough system memory to help you out

 

[Testosterone boy]

aw hell...I don't want to have to play doctor on the very first day of using it.

This was a strong gaming computer 6 months ago. 3.1 ghz with HT.

Its a Shuttle computer, bought it for the small size and portability. Still a desktop, allows a better sound card than a laptop.

 

[drrman]

aw hell...I don't want to have to play doctor on the very first day of using it.

This was a strong gaming computer 6 months ago. 3.1 ghz with HT.

Its a Shuttle computer, bought it for the small size and portability. Still a desktop, allows a better sound card than a laptop.

bro, doing what i told you is not a big deal, it just stops the computer from partially loading all that useless shit at startup that wastes RAM. Its no registry editing or anything you couldn't put back, although there would be no reason to start that shit anyways.

 

[Testosterone boy]

What I mean by crash is that the program simply quits running and the computer reverts back to the desktop mode that you find when first booting up.

 

[drrman]

What I mean by crash is that the program simply quits running and the computer reverts back to the desktop mode that you find when first booting up.

You may want to get you a good virus scan program which you probably already have and if you don't have already, purchase a good spyware program such as spybot or counterspy, its worth the small price for those with a one year subscription to updates, that might help ya!!

 

[Testosterone boy]

You may want to get you a good virus scan program which you probably already have and if you don't have already, purchase a good spyware program such as spybot or counterspy, its worth the small price for those with a one year subscription to updates, that might help ya!!

This computer will likely never go on the internet.

Our police state is at its zenith with all the things it can do with all of the built in back doors to Windows. woohoo.

 

[blut wump]

Crashing as you describe could easily be due to faulty cooling. Try removing the case and aiming a fan at it to see whether it helps.

When it comes down to it, you have a fault and have the choice of fiddling around or taking it back to the store. There's little enough point in buying a warranty on a computer, anyway, but now you have one you might as well use it.

I've no idea of your country's consumer laws but, over here, I'd take it back and demand a full refund for something that was giving me grief on the first day. See whether you can get something to crash regularly that comes preinstalled since that will add weight to your argument that it's faulty.

 

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QUIT LOOKING AT porn and that shud resolve the problem

Never had a crash because of porn or checking out Mararishi's Mehesh Yogi's sites or that foreign BS! It really depends on the system that you have and use daily! It could be the FEDS trying to hack in, just BSing! lol Fix it!

 

[Disposition]

I agree with Blut, probably cooling. Also, more ram may help. I don't know anybody that run's less than a gig (1000 MB) these days. I'm running 2.

 

[BigboyAl]

its not coooling, if you were over heating your system would crash and reboot when ever you place a heavy load on the cpu. to comfirm this just install the cpu ultilty software and watch the temp meter on the cpu, if its getting to shutdown temps then it may be that. but your not shutting down your crashing to desktop.
You have some file issues with your windows desk top system most likely. Sounds like the software is unstable. i would recommend a reinstallation of windows. or go out and by vista if you dont have it i love vista.