What to make of this???

Dufrane

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Sometimes when I turn on my computer during the windows xp load screen I get a quick blue screen and my computer restarts. After several of these rounds XP will load without a hitch and everything seems tip top. The blue screen says this. "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

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What do you make of this. I was thinking power supply, but I disconected all extra things like case fans. I have a 350 watt antec ps running a64 3000, 5900 xt, wd sata raptor, two optical drives, a floppy , and two case fans.
 

mwmorph

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it semms page file corruption(in HDD) check your hdd with scandisk or some other program and see if you have a lot of bad sectors. thne check it's health with programs from your manufacter's website(most of them have a program to do this to download)
 

Dufrane

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I downloaded a diagnostic from WD web site and ran the diagnostic and it passed. Any other suggestions??
 

Dufrane

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I also ran it through an extensive scan disk before windows boots. No problems reported. Any other suggestions. I am still thinking power supply.