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Craven Morehead · 10-08-2005, 07:14 PM

Corporate issue HP/compaq nc6000 running XP Pro. Last night and once this afternoon it locked up on me. Everything froze and I could hear the hard disk clicking until I received the blue screen of death, then the PC shut itself down and restarted. The blue screen said something to the effect that Windows shut itself down to avoid damage. The damned thing appeared for such a short period of time that I couldn't read it all, was a full screen of text. Said something about removing any recently installed hardware. Nothing installed, ever. If it was the first time, don't worry. If not, let your system administrator know. And it created a log.

After last night's problem, I defragged the HD. No problems identified. Is there anything else I should do? Maintenance type programs? Any suggestions on freeware to d/l.

I just backed up all the data files, contacts, email files and bookmarks.

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Craven Morehead Custom User Title	Possible HD problems - need suggestions Corporate issue HP/compaq nc6000 running XP Pro. Last night and once this afternoon it locked up on me. Everything froze and I could hear the hard disk clicking until I received the blue screen of death, then the PC shut itself down and restarted. The blue screen said something to the effect that Windows shut itself down to avoid damage. The damned thing appeared for such a short period of time that I couldn't read it all, was a full screen of text. Said something about removing any recently installed hardware. Nothing installed, ever. If it was the first time, don't worry. If not, let your system administrator know. And it created a log. After last night's problem, I defragged the HD. No problems identified. Is there anything else I should do? Maintenance type programs? Any suggestions on freeware to d/l. I just backed up all the data files, contacts, email files and bookmarks.