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    How often does your pc crash/freezzzz ??

    Hello again all,

    Well as the title says.
    My comp must crash, or a better word would be, freezz, about 3 times a month... Is this normal ?
    I have a friend who onwns a dell computer, which has a very similar spec to mine, except with out the raid & sound card, and in all the time he's had it it must have crashed only once, and even then we think may have been due to a latent worm.

    PS, are there any little tweaks you can do to winxp to aid against freezing ??

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    i run linux. my system doesn't crash.

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    Can't remember that last time it crashed tbh

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    I've not had my pc crash or freeze in about a year (even then it was because I'd been lazy and changed a bunch of hardware and not done a clean install, as soon as I did a clean install it's been fine ), the crashes/freezes are probably to do with the soundcard and Creative's drivers, both are notorious for causing problems with other hardware and software.
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    Yeh, I've been really suprised at the realiability of my computer. It only freezes when I overload it with stuff to do all at the same time cos I'm impatient and keep on click stuff. But it never really crashes. I just gotta give it time. (Running XP Pro)

    My old computer used to always crash but I never did disk defrag or run Spybot and Ad-aware and stuff like that. So thats probarbly why. Not sure though, just my guess.
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    XP pro, crash whats that??

    Only times I have had probs is when Ive installed new software and havent done the drivers. Found old sound drivers caused the most problems.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flibb
    XP pro, crash whats that??

    Only times I have had probs is when Ive installed new software and havent done the drivers. Found old sound drivers caused the most problems.
    I didn't say it crashes. My old PC was running ME, that always crashed.
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    w2k, epia-m2-12000, 512mb, 80gb samsung. crashes only when my 5year old dvd-rom plays a dirty blockbuster dvd. other than that is never ever crashes, same with my CL-10000 based webserver. (same with linux dell smoothwall box)

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    Win XP pro, and it never crashes...

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    Ditto that, run XP pro & it hasnt crashed in a long long time. Also run SuSE & Free BSD, which of course are rock solid.
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    Aww man ! LOL so my 3 times a mouth is hardly normal then..
    Why on earth does it crash so much then ??
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    No crashes here on Win2kPro and Win XP pro.

    As long as you set it up properly, and dont install tons of absolout rubbish, Win NT 5.x is as stable as any other O/S.

    It's all in the user isnt it, badly set up badly used linux is not stable just as badly set up windows.

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    So what is the definition of "badly set up windows" then ?
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    one that crashes all the time
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