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Originally Posted by mindonstrike

What happened when you crashed. Did Hoster stop responding or did the PC freeze up or shut down, did you get any error messages?

Did you check event viewer to see if it recorded any problems?
Any programs running in the background like Nortons or Mcaffee that might be creating conflicts?

Sam

When my daughter was singing on the first crash she said the monitor just went black in the middle of a song and I could not get it too boot. I tried to repair the windows installation and could not. When I tried to load windows it told me the disk was not formatted. I did have Norton anti virus and firewall running on the first crash.

So I reformatted and started over. The second time it crashed I just tried to boot the system "It was shut down" Again it would not boot, except this time I was able to do the windows repair but had the problems I mentioned in the first message. There were no error messages that I'm aware of on either crash. I did not load Norton the second time and had turned off all automatic updates and made sure MS firewall and anti virus we turned off. This caused some annoying messages, about not being protected, but I dealt with it.

Please clue me in on event viewer in case this happens again. I will check the disk for bad sectors and soon as my songs are back on the system. I did go ahead and reformat the drive and I am in the process of loading everything back on the system.

One other thing I did do was to add Hoster too the Start up folder, so it would open when I booted since this was all this system was intended to run. Surely this would not cause a crash???

If MTU can reset whatever needs to be done it would be appreciated.

Thanks again,
Jim